skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who does/did tech jobs and manual jobs, i think it all depends. I know some people in tech who get paid insane amounts of money to sit at a desk and pretend to do something, and some of these people would not last an hour in a manual job. But i also know some developers/artists in tech industry who work 60h weeks to be paid under 2K€/mo and are on the verge of burnout, and these people would probably be very happy to find any better job, whether in tech industry or not.

I think your experience of tech workers is not representative of the tech industry in general: for every high-paid IT person, there's 2 or 3 (maybe 50?) who're getting paid peanuts and have very indecent working conditions, and i personally find it somewhat condescending to suggest it's just an isolated incident and it's so easy to just walk down the street to find better work conditions.

In fact, that very sentence was pronounced by our slaver-in-chief Emmanuel Macron and was widely derided as condescending. It's hard for people to find a job, especially if you don't have high connections. It's even harder to find a decent job: to find a quasi-slavery posting you can just walk down to any luxurious restaurant/hotel but to find lawful/respectful working conditions, i still don't know of a magic formula.
That’s a different argument than “they’re not trying to keep kids safe”
I was somewhat interested in this, and started reading a little bit. The section digging into the bugs runs from page 33 to page 106. (I stopped reading after a few pages)

While there is additional commentary on the testimony given on each bug, and the time it was in effect, along with the legal relevance e.t.c., this does seem like a very buggy piece of software.
not being able to customize every little thing about branding and UX, not needing to have the same security/privacy standards, not having to work on mobile or on old browsers, etc etc. and thats just on the user side.

on the builder side, you can expose more confidential/internal data since you can safely assume the person and intended audience are only employees.

you can move faster if you assume away requirements that dont really matter in contexg.
I very much enjoyed it. Do you have another in the works?
obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
If the other "end" you are talking to is their server, then it's end-to-end encryption. If the other end is another person's computer, and their server is only one jump on the way there, then it's not end-to-end. Clearly, with Slack, "their server" was not the other "end" in anyone's mind; so they were being disingenuous. But for many cases (banking), their server _is_ the other end.
Write to your MP: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
They also have a good podcast on this.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49
You don't master anything because you enjoy being good at it, because everyone enjoys that. You must enjoy learning.
I submitted this link, and tried hard not to editorialize the page title. But the communication around this from the BBC has been dishearteningly weasel-worded and posting the original would have been, IMHO, deceptive through omission.

The original title is "Why has the BBC Podcasts page changed?". The wording of the campaign (trailers spliced into Podcasts), as well as this, is evasive. When they say:

> some content will be exclusively available on BBC Sounds for 28 days

The only reading I can make of that is "we are introducing an artificial 28 day delay to RSS". This is not honest communication IMHO.

This seems like a clear indication that they plan to deprecate RSS. Just like the interstitial nag screens on the BBC news website send a clear message that they want to restrict all access to the BBC to those who sign-in.

Here's a canned statement I got by email:

<quote>

Thank you for contacting BBC Sounds support. I understand that you are unhappy with the news that some content will be exclusively available on BBC Sounds for 28 days after its initial broadcast.

Since we launched BBC Sounds we’ve had a number of podcasts either available first, or only, on BBC Sounds, giving listeners easy access to them on the BBC’s own digital platform.

We are making this change because we want more people to use BBC Sounds to listen to their favourite BBC audio, and to easily discover more from the BBC. This gives licence fee payers even more value.

Continuing to make BBC Sounds a success and increasingly valued by our audience is a priority for us. We think it’s vital to ensure brilliant UK content continues to thrive now and in the future. With more people listening on their mobiles, TVs and smart speakers, we want to make sure we’re helping create and deliver for the next generation of UK radio and audio fans.

This change is expected to take effect from March.

However, we do appreciate your feedback on this, and that some users will not be happy about the change, if for example they get their Sounds content from third party providers such as Apple or Google podcasts. Rest assured we are minoring all feedback about this change as user feedback is important to us. I have recorded your feedback on our Sounds feedback report to be seen by the Head of Sounds and the various Sounds product teams.

Thanks again for getting in touch.

Kind regards,

</quote>
Really? Too busy setting up VMs or rewriting Python code into C to notice?
Shitty joke. It was bought up in issue 9 in the golang repo and was a pretty big deal at the time.

I still think they should have renamed go to "nine". Alas Google had no problem just steamrolling the guy and then pissing on ten years of his work with a go fuck yourself in the form of this commit.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
> I don't see how you can win over many people by repeating a mantra like this...

I don’t expect to, this isn’t about wining over or educating the public at large. You would never be able to on a technical issue like this, especially when horrific illegal activity is involved.

The issue is knowledgable and informed politicians and agency spinning this rubbish trying to convince the public they can win this, when they know they can’t. They are lying.
News publications also still think they're competing with each other. Like, it seems like each newspaper assumes you're going to subscribe to them and then go there every morning like it's the 1990's and get 100% of your news from them, and charge accordingly.

If I'm going to pay for news it's going to have to be an all-you-can-eat deal like the music streaming services. I'll pay if it means that like 70% of the news links I click from Google News, social media or reddit are covered.
It's quite short. I can't find a link to a quote online, a transcript is:

"Last month, the notorious paedophile Sidney Cook was blasted into space, to spend the rest of his life aboard a one-man prison vessel, posing no further threat to children on Earth.

But it was revealed that an eight-year old boy was placed on board, by mistake, and is now trapped alone in space with the monster. A spokesman said:

'This is the one thing we didn't want to happen' "
Those in possession of blobs of data passing tests of statistical randomness must be punished. Send any of that statistically-random data over the web? That’s a punishin’.
I was particularly sad to hear Andy Zaltzman reading out the words. Of all the people I'd hope would skewer the BBC management double-speak.
In Austin Texas we have an absurdly well marked crosswalk on the way to the elementary school, to a close approximation nobody has ever stopped to let us cross. Our daughter was nearly killed once, so far.

It seems so many people in America are so fat now they don’t imagine people would ever walk, so they drive without regard for pedestrians and active hostility towards cyclists and park in the way of sidewalks, making walking or riding bikes to school seem so scary and unpleasant that few kids do it anymore, leading to more fat Americans who would never imagine walking. It is really depressing.
https is only encryption in transit. endpoints see all traffic.
ProseMirror – Collaborative Editing
you should check out Budibase, its got all the good parts of no code (nothing you said indicates you really want to be futzing around with css to get basic stuff up) but lets you code the important parts yourself and is open source so you can mod things if you need to

https://budibase.com
Carpal tunnel isn't about being sedentary, is it? It's about repetitive movements (from people I know who suffer from it, vibrations also exacerbate their conditions, which is why I brought up power tools) - just like the common plumbing activities that I mentioned. This isn't about aches. If your body can't handle sitting at a computer, then you are out of your mind thinking that working a trade will somehow 'be better.' Buy a standing desk, ergonomic keyboard + mouse, and go for some walks.
Now there is a company making Silverlight work on top of WebAssembly.

https://opensilver.net/
Sure. No place to hide. Everyone. Probably several careless criminals and definitely every well-being citizen.
Power/control.

Fwiw seems rather clear to me that we live in an age where information is groomed for us, for the same reasons.
It’s not an incorrect statement. I’ve been part of successful rewrites. The key is to be your own disruptive competitor. Disruptive competitors are rewrites of your product that you yourself were either unable or unwilling to do.

This Joel blogpost is always trotted out as some kind of gospel, and I think it’s stymied a lot of clear thinking around the possible merits of a rebuild.
>“If you outlaw Encryption only outlaws will have Encryption.”

You overestimate outlaws. 99% of them will just use major platforms and not bother with encryption. There is a lot of low hanging fruit.
the linked video is the "pedophile blasted into space" segment from Brass Eye (a very dark humored current affairs parody from the late 90s), for anyone else unable to view.
Have you considered that your emotional intuition might be wrong? Does your "yikes radar" fire when you see people using mobility or sensory aids to overcome disabilities?
It’s sensible though to think “Why don’t houses depreciate like used cars? After all, they also wear out.”

Side note 1: There are places where you can (sometimes only can) lease the land for 99 years. This has the predictable effect in terms of willingness to build/improve the land, especially as the lease term is drawing to an end.

Side note 2: these discussions almost inevitably summon the proponents of land-value-tax to encourage denser use of valuable land. They’ll be along shortly, I’m sure.
It was writing back-end systems code around 2017. I had to help develop a whole specialized production and deployment/restart system just to get around memory issues in production.
Hello, is the website down since yesterday or are you blocking all connections from Tor (if so why?) ?
What they want is continuous scanning for "illegal content" and where intelligence services can freely roam, store and analyze everything the population says.

They can use this to control the population, massaging and prodding the herd to move in a certain direction.

If this becomes reality then democracy is dead and I will plead for an authoritarian regime with me at the head.
That's because every commercially successful project eventually turns into an absolute mess.

The others go bankrupt before it happens.
> Well, the issue is that baseline level of commitment is extremely low, to the point where I don't think it's an actual relationship if you only talk once a year.

I send all my former clients and coworkers an email every year to wish a happy new year and ask them how things are going/how the latest projects I knew they were working on is going.

It’s very different to having no contact at all. It’s always nice when you end up working with them again. They know you are not only a mercenary and view the relationship as something which will exist in time.
Write better software: CUPID characteristics instead of rigid SOLID pricinples
Dev Board Micro
What stable non-Microsoft platforms do you use instead?
I don't think it can. UPS's store energy too, and stop holding charge after a while. It would be nice to bring back easily replaceable batteries, since they're basically a consumable these days.
The bank doesn't hold a copy of your house, it holds a description of your assets (including contracts like money). And it's absurd to say that if something is your property, then also its descriptions are your property.

That doesn't add up even assuming that pure ideas can be property at all.
Yes, I know all of that, but that's encryption which is something this website is against
> Didn't the wikileaks stuff show the GCHQ and other five eyes agency basically have direct access to all this information anyway

...and the 2003 incident involving Katherine Gun showed that those agencies don't really give an $expletive about anyone's privacy, and that many governments don't give an $expletive about telling the truth.
One of the primary uses-cases for VMs in Android seems to be a desire to replace the Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) permitted by things like TrustZone. There have been several presentations about this by Google:

- LPC 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54q6RzS9BpQ&t=10862s and https://lpc.events/event/7/contributions/780/

- KVM Forum 2020: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/will...

From the KVM Forum presentation: "We need a way to de-privilege third party code and provide a portable environment in which to isolate services from each other and also from the rest of Android."

From the LPC presentation:

"What do we need? We need a hypervisor that is:

1. open source

2. easy to ship and update

3. supports guest memory protection

4. trustworthy

KVM as part of GKI is a very good fit with the right extensions."
Developers are in fact a cog in the machine. They do not define or even have possibility to define the overall process that should counter this. Some times they don't even know the scope of the use of what they are working on. That is squarely on management, and that is also why management should be responsible for a failure like this if they didn't put a reasonable process in place.

The reason for this is quite simply because it's impossible to develop bug free code. The process needs to reflect this, and if it doesn't it's not the individual developers fault.
Buffet’s last good move was the deal he got for Goldman Sachs in 2007. Then he said he was not going to invest in tech companies because he did not invest in businesses he did not understand, then he dumped a bunch of money in IBM which obviously did terrible, then he relented and finally bought a ton of Apple in 2014 or 2015, which has single-handedly saved Berkshire and kept it relevant.

I also would like to see objective proof of how well Burry has done since 2008 compared to the basically risk-less and cost-less VOO or VTI.
With how many people only read headlines and nothing else, is calling it "No Place to Hide" a wise decision"?
> so your secret agencies can harvest all the data from everyone easily

The thing is, I don’t think the people who work at those agencies would want this either, except for maybe law enforcement. It’s the bureaucrats who think it’s a good idea, everyone else knows it’s a shite one. It’s an utter farce.
Show HN: Betsy – The incy-wincy Python static dependencies crawler
Looks great, and takes back a couple of decades to when laptop / handheld design was ... not perfect ... but interesting, and had so much more variety.
It would be nice to define what counts as a payed user. Everyone, who is using the sdk+tools or everyone who is using the apps built with the tools?

Same question for customer apps. Does the pay plan scale with the #admin users (AKA the dev team building the apps) or with the #customers?
So one problem with thinking about vaccine protection from infection is that it’s hard to get data. In practice, when you see figures on protection against infection (typically these show limited though existent protection re omicron and significant protection re delta for boosted people) those figures are typically based on household infection. Which is kind of a worst case; constant exposure for days.

It may be that protection against infection by casual contact is significantly better, but it’s almost impossible to study that.
Why is no one trying to create unicorns? Would much rather have unicorns than boring old aurochs. Just splice in some rhinoceros DNA...
It's true. Those originated as bootleg sales at county fair booths in the 90s, along with the concrete geese. The writer of Calvin and Hobbes was actually quite against them and merchandising in general, having seen the saturation of Garfield merchandise in the 80s.
Can you link to this crosswalk on Streetview? I have a mental image of the kind of crossing you're describing and I want to see if it matches with the reality.
There really isn't such a thing as cosmetic-only microtransactions in a fast paced game. If it changes how something looks, it affects gameplay.

And beyond that, the rest of the game is not being designed independently of microtransactions and that affects you even if you never buy any.
That would be ideal, but VOIP numbers are blocked in many situations. Most 2fa providers and bank transaction verification comes to mind.
FWIW, it's pedophile (or paedophile). 'Pedofile' is the notoriously efficient entropy coding compression format used for child pornography stashes (/s).
FB has been doing political censorship for over a decade. First they started with torrent links, then anarchist propaganda. Since they introduced shadow-banning i haven't really followed the latest developments, but they definitely have been collaborating with other entities on what to censor.
There are so many charities today. Utterly impossible that more than a handful are sustained by $25 checks from old ladies. Most are money/reputation laundering & tax dodges for corporations, lobbyists, governments, and high net-worth individuals. They are unclean, and should be cleansed with fire.
And you think our police will have the resources do do anything for those 99%? They are already doing it all out in the open on public platforms, on street corners. Encryption isn’t a barer for enforcement in those cases.

The issue is the worst 1% and they will continue to use encryption anyway.
No, they weren't: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/constitutiondao

The value of the PEOPLE tokens on the secondary market proceeded to increase nearly 10x in the weeks following the dissolution of the DAO. Even though market cap is declining, at $327M mcap, it is still many multiples of the amount raised.

PEOPLE tokens in circulation are still redeemable for the underlying ETH, but the monetary premium has increased as a result of the dispersed liquidity to so many holders (16K+) as well as the novelty of retaining the token for a failed, yet valiant effort.
Show HN: Limeboard – Digital stationery for collecting thoughts and ideas
There are so many more low hanging fruits to combat child abuse material, but governments are not taking any action.
By now it's common knowledge that it's really NOT that hard to take down vast amounts of it.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/sexual-violence-a...

So I find it hard to believe that this is about protecting children.
But again… for what? Are you under the impression that every government is actually authoritarian under the hood but that characteristic just doesn’t really show its head due to encryption? Seems to me authoritarian governments have no problem being authoritarian with or without these sorts of provisions.

Side note: I’m not actually against E2E encryption. Strong proponent really. I just think these arguments tend not to resonate with a very broad audience outside of the security/privacy/technolibertarian communities
When I lived in LA, it was downright dangerous to try and cross a road as a pedestrian. I once ended up on some guy's hood who decided that red lights just didn't apply to him. No major harm done thankfully, but if he'd have been going any faster I wouldn't be here today.
Most citizens are now well aware of governments ploy to use children's virginity to muzzle their dissent.
During the Chilean social revolt of 2019, police where explicitly attacking both volunteer Healthcare workers and their supplies as well as official ambulances and emts

So yeah, even when not related to warfare per se, it happens
It's the stepping stone between the two: you cannot believe the motivation is to keep kids safe if the action makes kids less safe. That doesn't prove a specific other motivation. But it does pretty decisively disprove the stated motivation.
Right? Their complete statement is "remove end-to-end encryption so we can catch child sex abusers...by monitoring all the content that flows through social media" -- they just don't say the second part out loud because everyone would realize how fucking crazy this is.
Interesting. I had the opposite experience and could use my notes (taken in workflowy while reading papers) towards my thesis rather well. Tried Roam for a while but realized pretty early on it wasn't going to work for me. Main reason being speed! Workflowy works at "speed of thought" for me. For a long while I was lamenting the lack of basics like date stamping and linking, but all that and more is now available and I couldn't be happier. "must be in my workflowy" is a thought that is fairly frequent. WF's tagging with auto completion is better for me than auto linking.

With auto linking, I think the main issue for me is that I want the connection made in my head rather than in a tool. So searching and finding related notes works rather well and the deliberate act helps gradually internalize the links for me.
The curious incident of the co-endorsement in the Capitol
A billion reincarnations away from Eileen Gu, but a blow to the head and
In fairness, perhaps the problem of doing it the way "it's always been done" is that the criminals don't operate the same anymore, more than likely they aren't meeting up in dockside speakeasies, moreover they're probably not talking over phone lines either. Pimps and drug dealers don't need to stand on the street corners and advertise their stuff to make sales. Crime has changed.

If their communication has mostly gone modern, digital, and encrypted, traditional policework gets a lot harder.

That said, I'm not sure if going after encryption is the right way. But could be it is. I don't know. What if we the technology we've developed has us facing a choice between an Orvellian nightmare and Mad Max?
Whoa, thanks! You could try issuing a pull request once the work is complete. Most likely the author will accept it, or else it can linger as an "open" request on github and others might find it.

Also, the old version could use a special incantation:

theano.config.experimental.unpickle_gpu_on_cpu = True

to run CPU-based inference on a GPU-trained model, even without a supported hardware GPU. It would be nice to check how this stuff works with the newer packages, and document it properly. Most likely nothing much has changed.