skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to know what these Chrome extensions are to ensure they'll never be installed on any computer I use. Unfortunately I can't find a list anywhere, which seems really scammy.
On a planetary scale, I wouldn't actually consider that 'pretty fucking big'. For comparison (metro areas, figures from Wikipedia):

San Francisco: 4.7 million

Berlin: 6.1 million

London: 14.3 million

NYC: 20.1 million

Shenzhen: 23.3 million

Tokyo: 37.5 million
Google has immediate, easily discernible and credible utility to the average person. If I want to find "best recipes for brownies" Google helps me there regardless. I have clear intent to find the best recipes for making brownies.

On Facebook my 82 year old grandma might post an article like "BEST BROWNIE RECIPES FOR SOUTH FLORIDA GRANDMAS" that might hit my feed.

Very different.
TIPC is one of the many modules that are suggested to be disabled in CIS and NIST hardening documentation unless you have an explicit requirement for it. [1] And here [2] is a previous discussion from 2017 discussing disabling kernel modules. As imrejonk mentioned this is not loaded by default.

One can check the loaded modules with

lsmod

The module can be explicitly disabled with

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/tipc.conf
install tipc /bin/false

There are documents explaining the pros and cons to using /bin/false vs /bin/true for disabling modules.

[1] - https://downloads.cisecurity.org/#/

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13709591
Rising rates. Will hurt stock markets too but sound businesses will always bounce back.
This is how all of maths is. Before you learn it, it's incomprehensible frightening gibberish. After you learn it, you wonder how anyone can not understand ideas so simple and obvious.

How to get from one state to the other is the whole problem.

The terse symbolic language is someone's best attempt to communicate the beautiful simple idea in their head. More than any other discipline, I think, mathematicians write to be understood, to be clear.
Hello, Tile owner here! I have a Tile on my house keys and my wallet, which are the two devices I misplace the most often. They've saved me countless times, primarily helping me find them when I leave them in my car, or put them someone in my house that they aren't supposed to be.

I'm most excited for the upcoming UWB tracker, and especially for the work that Google and Tile are apparently doing to ensure devices with UWB support are all compatible. I was wondering if you could give a quick update on the status of UWB tracking on Android? As far as I know, there's only two devices that support it (Samsung's S21 Ultra and S22 Ultra), but it hasn't been confirmed whether Tile's UWB tracker is compatible. As mentioned in the article, BLE tracking isn't as accurate as UWB, so I assume that UWB support would be necessary for most of these tracking concerns to materialize with Tile's trackers.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2022-01-30/spotify-platform-rul...

> Content that promotes dangerous false or dangerous deceptive medical information that may cause offline harm or poses a direct threat to public health

His ivermectin/vaccine stuff breaks the TOS.
And not in a windowless room already.

How many air gapped systems are running next to a Window?

Although I guess you can use this as evidence: if it needs to be air-gapped it also needs to be in a windowless room or some kind of sealed container.
You might want to rethink the name. There's a weather phenomenon called "wind" where difference in pressure causes air movement between two locations. The name collision between two so obviously related things might cause confusion for people.

Since this isn't reddit I suppose I should get off my facetious horse and provide some useful feedback huh?

I really like that you can click the image and see a live demo of the application. I found that quite by accident but it was more informative than the site itself IMO. It's probably worth calling out that it is clickable with an arrow or something.

In fact, since you can publish the notes, it might even make sense to dogfood and use the tool itself for the documentation rather than using Docusaurus.
If you like analog, you may get some tidbits from here also[0].

[0] https://github.com/slowernews/hamster-system
Just build progressive web apps done.

But seriously this is not just a privacy thing. It's also an accessibility problem. Why is it that we have lost the art of just making a web page that does stuff, and then enhancing that functionality?
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Of course you don't.
Most of the time the system is compromised before being in an air gapped setup, for instance in the supply chain.
That's interesting, but suppose I like to drink a couple cups of coffee per day. It helps me get my brain active in the morning, and avoid the afternoon slump.

Are there negative consequences to me or others? Not that I can identify. The literature has no good study that suggests any long-term health problems with coffee consumption.

But I will feel out of sorts if I suddenly stop. I'll be fine again after a few days. But it seems certain there is a chemical dependence. This does not fit your definition of addiction, but it seems odd to claim that my daily coffee consumption is not, at the least, a light addiction?
I thought General Counsel means you have a JD?
Lol, booking.com sold me lodgings in Malibu, at a place that had clearly been shut down for months..

We ended up going to a motel in Thousand Oaks, BUT the customer service is what actually allowed us to deal with the fraudulent booking.

I’m gonna take a wild guess here, but this kind of outsourcing does not generally improve the service..
This is a cool concept especially now that the old one got susbsumed by the NYT.

I am currently using https://wordlle.app, but it still contains Google Analytics.

Does anyone here know of a clone that has absolutely zero tracking?
That seems like a very small increase to a page that presumably sees little traffic. Sounds like they're committing the base rate fallacy[0] where large percentage increases correspond to small absolute numbers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
On my social bubble, an impressive amount of people have cancelled their premium accounts.

I had a friend who had always recommended me trying out Youtube Music for their recommendation and I used the opportunity to switch, not looking back.. Somehow, Youtube Premium + Music for family is cheaper than Spotify Premium for family.
Metaphor seems like a poor term. Mapping concepts to geometric concepts is pretty important. Multiplication is simple enough that you can just do it.

But having that capability is pretty important for understanding other concepts. For example, many concepts in calculus.
Seems pretty clear that Facebook is putting this statement out because they're sweating their big stock slide and looking to staunch the bleeding whereever possible. If they were in a stronger position they would be sticking to attempting to strong-arm the EU.
I once heard it put this way, “If you’re absolutely certain that you have impostor syndrome, then you probably don’t have impostor syndrome.”
That’s what programming is. Programming is applying computerized solutions to different problem domains. To make a successful problem, you have to learn about the targeted domain and sometimes become an expert in it. In this case the problem domain is quadratic factoring.
ive been using and paying for spotify for over a decade and im not going to renew my subscription when it ends later this month.

nothing major though, just a mix of having podcasts shoved in my face when i don't want anything to do with them, songs disappearing (not completely spotify's problem i suppose), not having certain songs in the first place, and the effort involved in downloading songs so i can have offline access (which is a bit of a pain when you have multiple devices and change them often)

i also used to tell myself i couldn't afford all the music i wanted to listen to, but adding up the money i have given spotify over the last decade im thinking maybe i could have bought a decent chunk of it. so that's what in going to start doing.

you could probably find lots more reasons if you search online. spotify paying people peanuts etc etc
Can you point to your source? From a quick glance on their documentation, it seems like you got it backward.

> A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To keep a web page out of Google, block indexing with noindex or password-protect the page.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/robots/in...

They won't crawl it, but it they already did crawl it or if there's a link to it, it will still be part of their index (thus search results).

They even go further on their noindex page, by saying that it need to be crawlable (thus not part of the robots.txt) so that they can see the no index directive on the page...

> Important: For the noindex directive to be effective, the page or resource must not be blocked by a robots.txt file, and it has to be otherwise accessible to the crawler. If the page is blocked by a robots.txt file or the crawler can't access the page, the crawler will never see the noindex directive, and the page can still appear in search results, for example if other pages link to it.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
I’m not a lawyer, so take the following with a pinch of salt.

My GDPR compliance training said that data strictly necessary for the provision of a service is something a business can freely use to that end without explicit consent. This is why GitHub doesn’t show cookie popups: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

So “User @Alice sent $message to user @Bob” is necessary for a chat platform, but “Notice to advertisers: User @Alice posts a lot about cars, cats, and funny shaped carrots” isn’t even though advertisers pay for the continued existence of the service.
File upload is indeed a useful feature! Added to my todo list.

On the second concern, nested tags are supported so you can have something like #project1/tag1, #project1/tag2, #project2/tag1 etc. - does this work for you?
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I guess everybody's more interested in something more fun then contracts. I totally get it.
There are also companies that post fake jobs and then use the good resumes with minor tweaks to help market their own employees. It's so dodgy, wish there was a way to improve transparency.
Schedule and build versioned, shareable and queryable dbt models from raw data
One great use case of passive monitoring is detecting water leaks, especially for vacation homes.

> It has an airtag (not an official supported use)

I'm surprised. That sounds like a great use for it, especially for a larger breed that runs fast.
Re: Name

Windi is also the name of a product from the FridaBaby company that helps babies pass gas. So there’s that.
Yeah that would but not sure why it is better than what I have already put there

> editorialize:

> 1 : to express an opinion in the form of an editorial. 2 : to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts.

I didn't add any personal opinion but picked up directly from the summary itself.
Yeah it's interesting how moving up a level of abstraction works well here! "Write me a function that multiplies two numbers" works much better than trying to get it to multiply the numbers themselves. There's a recent-ish paper exploring this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07732
To this I respond with the only valuable treat matrix for an individual I've ever seen.

Threat: Ex-girlfriend/boyfriend breaking into your email account and publicly releasing your correspondence with the My Little Pony fan club

Solution: Strong Passwords

Threat: Organized criminals breaking into your email account and sending spam using your identity

Solution: Strong passwords + common sense (don’t click on unsolicited herbal Viagra ads that result in keyloggers and sorrow)

Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account

Solution:
◆ Magical amulets?

◆ Fake your own death, move into a submarine?

◆ YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON

All credit to James Mickens for the above.

My point being that if someone is that committed to compromising your air gapped system they're going to find a way. Especially if they can just slip the janitor $10,000 to put a USB labelled "Barely Legal Gone Wild" into the machine while vaccumming.
They learned from the best: the Microsoft community forums.
Ask HN: How to migrate from employee to freelancer as a SW engineer?
I have 7-8 years of experience as a software dev. Currently I am pondering if I should take the step to become a freelancer at some point in the near future. I was self-employed before but that were special conditions. (I am located in Germany if that matters.)

My main questions are: how do you realize this change? Do you try to find contracts before leaving your day job? Where/How do you find work?

I know the most common platforms but are there some rules you should follow on there?

Do I have to suck it up and offer my service for "cheap" in the beginning? Or should I only take jobs for my self-defined minimum even if it's my first?

What else should I consider?
I was an English major who took 300-level courses in math (and CS, physics, history, philosophy, and Chinese). For 25 years I've regretted not applying to places like Princeton and MIT. I'm sure I could have gotten into some of them. My own college was pretty second-tier. But articles like this make me grateful for choosing a teaching-focused place, where professors are promoted for teaching, and there are no grad students outside a few professional programs. I had tons of personal attention everywhere I went. It didn't help my career, but for someone who wished he could study eight years instead of four and major in everything, it was a pretty nice situation.

Years later I was doing a Classics Ph.D. at Penn, and I could tell the difference. Actually I think in our department the professors were universally excellent teachers and very accessible, but it's true if you were in first-year Latin, your instructor was a grad student, and if you were in classical literature, you mostly saw the professor in a 300-person lecture hall, with a grad student leading your discussion group. But a 300-level course would have been led by the professor---and I've met Ivy League professors where that would be even worse. :-)

EDIT: The article seemed pretty weak to me: I sort of agree with people saying she sounds whiny and entitled. I don't think she made much of a case that there's a systemic problem as hinted by the title. It's just a story about one bad math class. But at the same time I'm very sympathetic to curious students wanting to learn more outside their specialty. Trying to read generously, I think it's mostly an article about how universities that reward research can neglect teaching. I don't know if it's worse in math (or STEM), but certainly those subjects require you to know the fundamentals before you can go on, so being an outsider is tough. And I have never understood why some professors give tests expecting a top score of 50%.
It's interesting that you decided to appear here in an effort to position Life360 as a more-private alternative to Apple solutions.

"We see data as an important part of our business model that allows us to keep the core Life360 services free for the majority of our users, including features that have improved driver safety and saved numerous lives." — You

"In 2020, the company made $16 million—nearly 20 percent of its revenue that year—from selling location data, plus an additional $6 million from its partnership with Arity." — The Markup

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-...

This is the part where you respond how you're sharing surveillance data to the CDC for people's own good, and that you've stopped selling "precise location data".
I guess that depends on ones definition of "promotes" and even "false". And, "deceptive" requires intent. I imagine this is up for some interpretation.
SpaceChem is where it started for me.
Presumably the company would rather have something like Stack Overflow, but with total control over the moderation.
The entire thing seems handwavey to the point of "don't believe your lying eyes". The author is basically saying we need to ignore people's self-reported incidence of having Long Covid.

This quote in particular seems rather ironic in light of the current labor shortage: "Do we see evidence of the types of sweeping changes we’d expect to see if several percent of people are suddenly unable to work? No, we don’t."
Wait until you see the speedruns; nefrums and wargerr are currently 100% achievements in 6hrs and 5hrs27 respectively (see speedruns.com/factorio
#100)
Launching a rocket is down to about 90 mins without using imported blueprints.
It's all about sybil attack prevention. They want to limit high rate algorithmic generation of accounts, so they need some verifiable ID that cannot itself be generated at a high rate. They're not using it to verify your identity - they're just making sure you can't generate a lot of accounts.
Okay but literally anyone with a bank account can buy shares in Intel. How many do they have to buy to counteract the consumer disbenefit?
The most important thing for people to understand is that everyone is different, and different people can have very different experiences with the exact same substance. Some people can smoke cigarettes on the weekend for years and never get addicted, which sounds insane to someone like me who couldn't go for more than a hour without a cigarette for twenty years and went through hell for 6 months to finally quit. But I can binge cocaine for weeks on end (in college it was meth) and then stop when I get bored (or my nose hurts) and suffer no withdrawal beyond occasional thoughts of "it would be nice to get high!". Yet other people end up in rehab for using far less than I have. I drink absurd amounts of caffeine every day and will get a mild headache sometimes if I skip it, and I thought this was normal until a friend quit caffeine and described it the way I would describe quitting nicotine! It's all over the map.

Wild variation is the norm, but a lot of our public health messaging and "conventional wisdom" ignores this entirely.
Ultimately I only have anecdotes. But I suppose we could look at the child-care sectors employment growth vs other sectors to see if it's recovering at the same rate as the rest of the economy.

Not very strong evidence but I think it would support the idea that more families are taking care of children in the household economy rather than the cash economy if it is recovering less quickly.
You have some unbelievably immature co-workers. I have worked at many jobs over 30+ years and have never once seen anyone in an engineering environment laugh at someone's disability, including stuttering.
Thanks, I really appreciate it! I'll take a look at these tonight.
I feel like for them that ship has largely sailed a while ago, sadly. I have a friend of mine who was included in their 30 under 30 list and knowing a bit about that process alone has generally made me really averse to anything else they put out.
Context: I thought it would be an interesting experiment with the team when throwing our hats into this bucket, to try an eco approach regarding the scaling / growth process - a la, the more words users write, the more trees we plant.

Heavy users who write a lot of words using the product get rewarded by planting more trees, and so the cycle continues.

Development was done by a core team that has worked on other successful SAAS products. Overall I'm optimistic but would love to hear your nitpicks / thoughts.
LOL Impossible to argue with such "logic".
The factory is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding factory.
I would think that the problem isn't just auditing, it is control. Reasonable people using the technology for good do not want to be bombarded with notifications. Better that we focus on control, making it more difficult to coerce someone into accepting tracking against their will, and making it easy to disable.
> Even though she told me, I forgot, and the map only showed that there was a divorce lawyer's office in the parking lot. I really needed a hug when she walked in the door.

A fine example of why pervasive tracking is terrible for relationships. I'm assuming based on your tone that you were calm and collected and didn't fly off the handle with accusations when she got home. But I think there are many people who would give into their insecurities (we all have them) and create a big mess with this sort of knowledge. The "accidental" nature of it just makes it worse.

I'm getting a new car soon, and I'm weighing losing the utility of the things in the app vs. my desire not to be tracked. It's really annoying that I have to make that trade off.
Took me too long to find this opinion.
I completely agree, they have the money and expertise to lobby good ol' congress. So why they do not!?
Come on. Human users is implied.
A bit of past discussion:

An Infinitely Large Napkin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168936 - June 2019 (32 comments)

An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467506 - Sept 2016 (3 comments)
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> Besides that, they're known for paying comparatively little per stream to musicians.

Compared to which service?
I originally wrote a snarkier response to this in response to your snark, but I'm to just gently note that my contention was that the opinion was not relevant to the topic, and it seems to me you're demonstrating exactly what I was complaining about: you didn't actually respond to what I said, you just said, "Ooh, here's an opportunity to snark about something I consider snark-worthy." So, uh, go you.
Also, you know, since Google knows the account age and all other information about the user it should be able to give an educated guess about the users age

But apparently Google's knowing that you're a right-handed tae-kwon-do enthusiast that flies every month is not sufficient for them to maybe think you're not a minor.
Thank you so much - you have no idea how much this means to me. I'll be sure to shoot you an email next time I get stuck, which will happen more or less as soon as I decide to try again :'D
Now that's a demo! Takes you from a gentle reminder how to run a program in your shell to showing off an impressive feature then tells you how to discover more.

Every project should take notes on this.
To a lot of people conditions matter more than money.
I've gotten this message, but I also have ~8 Google accounts. I've deleted 2 so far, but 2 of the accounts have emails that are tied to one last important service that _will not_ let me change my email, no matter what I do.

I'm trying, but I cannot escape.
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maybe we are talking past each other, but I'd say clean interfaces and bots are very important even if you don't want to tear down the original factory. you want to be able to double production of high volume products with a couple copy-pastes. can't really do this if you have some gnarly IO setup.

I agree clean layouts inside of functional units is unnecessary. land is cheap; just make something that works and cp it everywhere.
Were your parents - I'm quoting you here - "dumb and lazy"? Since they didn't pull themselves bup by the bootstraps like you did, and yet they allegedly had the same opportunities as you.