skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, is it a conspiracy if, by the Canadian government's own admission, they are tracking and freezing the accounts of those involved in the trucking protest?

https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy...
Yes, you'd probably need to either do fixed cost projects where developers get a share of the profits, or simply giving them bonuses on completion of each project to give a financial incentive to do more projects faster. But then again each project has a marginal cost, so it may still make more sense to do as few as possible, even in a market where demand exceeds supply.

But if we're going to screw the customers, why not gold plate everything instead? Even if the developers aren't rewarded with money, doesn't that make for a much more pleasant work environment? If the objective is taking as long as possible to accomplish the task, isn't it more rewarding to build a sparkling jewel than a ball of mud? It may even be somewhat less unethical, since the customer at least gets a quality product out of it, instead of garbage.
No, it's politicians here too. Look at all of the corporations that wanted to be open at the beginning of lockdown, but that the politicians decreed non-essential.
I bought a Tetris game from EA back when I had an original iPod Touch when the App Store was first introduced.

It was a one time purchase. It was never updated for larger screens and disappeared with the 32 bit to 64 bit transition.

Of course EA released another version around the iPhone 5 with ads an in-app purchases (?)
BMO had issues with its Global Money Transfer. RBC had issues with its online banking system (and acknowledged it). Other banks seem to have had mostly no or only minor issues.

This is pure speculation based on anecdotal reports. Most of the reports started on twitter and the numbers - except for RBC - are negligible.

Check this link [1] from the article itself: it's clear that the numbers from RBC (3k+ reports) are the only ones that cannot be considered noise or a minor issue.

[1] https://t.co/NRjPWlG0GE
Or it may that this community is international, so you either have tech talks, or a pile of discussions about politics in every part of the world.
It'd be worthwhile to create a fresh account and screenshot the defaults. Maybe you set your default manually at some point and weren't aware, or there's an easy way to slip up?

Nice catch, though!
As someone that's been here since the very beginning I think that tech has begun to be responsible for a larger portion of the world as a whole and this community has moved a small amount towards that direction as a result.

As one of the people who thinks that more (too much more) political content has crept in here, I will say that I agree with you on the above. That is, I agree that it is becoming harder (albeit not impossible!) to disambiguate what is "tech" versus what is "politics" when it comes to things like the discussions around, eg "social media's affect on society" and etc.

And to be fair, talking about tech has always tended to lead to a certain amount of political discussion, especially in terms of things like encryption policy, DRM, etc. So even I wouldn't try to say we should have zero political content here. But it does seem like it's grown a bit more prevalent than I'd prefer.
It's only a hedge now because interest rates haven't risen.
If Minesweeper, Scrabble or Tetris were the whirlwind phenomenon similar to Wordle, of which you made a clone trying to ride their coattails and had it rejected, then your question would've been relevant.

But they are not, so it's just a random question only tangentially related and an answer that has very little to do with your situation.
I did the above to create a nice workbench with few knots. It helped of course that the lumber I ripped was glued up to make the butcher-block-style top, the uprights and cross braces also doubled, tripled up.
The original copyright owner has allegedly nothing to do here; this is Apple rejecting games based on Apple's copycats guidelines, not based on DMCAs as far as it's shown.
While it's an interesting approach to implementing it, this feels like it's functionally equivalent to "Brute force execution with memoization". Specifically, it's like a depth-first search, and the set you have at each stage is equivalent to the set of memoised values you would have with a more typical implementation. Or am I missing something that makes it different?
Skin tone emoji copyright court case dismissed in Apple’s favor
Government found the network cable
Why bother making an argument that pretends people can't see the difference between 4chan /pol/ and MetaFilter? You don't even have to like MetaFilter to see that they're not the same species of site, and that the differences have nothing to do with a search for the truth.
If you make a game that specifically deals with one particular language, do you automatically own the rights to all language versions of that game? I think this is a difficult question to answer and may be part of the problem. For example, Wordle (English) likely has a catered list of 5-letter words; someone else would have to completely redo this work for any other language
Having worked at a writing-based company, any time I have to sit through a PowerPoint is now painful: Do I ask a question about the topic I care about now? Will we get to that topic later, and the speaker is just providing needed background context? Or is the thing I really care about sandwiched in at the end? Should I tell the speaker that we already know about all the stuff he's talking about now? On this next slide, should I tell the speaker that all the thing he just said are "basics," I've never heard of?

Having a document to read gives the time to read faster through things that don't require as much attention, and read slower through things that require more attention, and maybe even stop and google things that you don't know so you have needed background.
Inadequate Opsec
Good ol Dang, hero to some, voice of reason to others [1]

[1] http://cosmonautdreams.com/images/dang.jpg
> If you only want to use Apple's App Store, great--keep using it the same way you've always been using it. Nothing will change for _you_.

That's not really true. The security implications. The effort of having to fix my mom's phone because she got tricked into sideloading something.

The last day of my dad's life in a hospital bed was interrupted by my mom's malware filled android phone playing voice advertisements for a casino app every 30 minutes. It was from some supposed "emoji pack" she installed online. I got her an iPhone the next week.

Let me have a locked down device. Opening it up will negatively affect the experience of users who want that.
The bootloader seeds the kernel from disk, the kernel continually mixes data into the entropy pool from various sources. arc4random(), which provides for kernel/userspace/devices (including /dev/random which is symlinked to urandom), can never block.

Add.: the seed file is unique per installation, and is also updated continously by the system.
I know! Inbox was by far the best productivity software I've ever used. I was an eng manager during the time it was available, which meant I basically lived in email. I feel like I was 2x as productive because of that one tool.

It was too beautiful for this world.
> Do you seek the truth unconditionally

To truly be open to everything you have to make a lot of analysis and filtering effort. If you go to a lot of the sort of information sources the GP mentioned, the signal-to-noise ratio is so low that unless you have literally nothing to do with your day the chance of finding some useful truth is neg liable (sometimes even zero, because sometimes the signal is not just downed out by noise it is actively beaten away by it).

I seek truth as unconditionally as it is practical for me to do so.
Yes, that's right. I believe it was just the trees that went to China, finished lumber probably was sold back to us.
The Columbo TV show is, in my humble opinion, a masterpiece in disguise.
The basic scheme of each episode is well known.
But the beauty is in the details.
The few minutes in each episode where the character is not in representation and you can grasp a few moments of his mental process.

That's where you discover that:

- he takes NOTHING as assumed

- he works A LOT (usually not shown on screen, but sometimes mentionned by him, and you can infer that a given piece of information took a lot of time to discover)

- he always starts from the ground up, asks (what seem to be) stupid questions

- All of his actions are here to close the options. Conversations are done with no malice, but with that clear objective in mind.

I do a lot of the Columbo way at work, and it works surprisingly well.
Hacking Hacker News for fun and profit
Remix has a ScrollRestoration component to handle the scroll position when going back and forward in the browser history.

When you click the browser back button as far as I remember Remix will do what the browsers do and show the previous data, but if you click a button in the UI to navigate to the previous page it will fetch the new data.

Re global state, in my experience with Remix and before it with tools like React Query, once you move the server state (data fetched from an API or queried from a DB) outside tools like Redux, then what you have left is mostly UI state (input values, open/close states, etc.) and you don't need Redux for that.

And if your app is more complex (like a canvas-like app for example) you can either use a state + context in a parent component or you can use Redux or any other state management library, Remix once JS load will not cause a full page navigation so if you initialize a global state in something like Remix it will keep working across page navigations, even if you click back it will keep the state because Remix uses RR to navigate so it's pure client-side navigation.
Does anyone have recommendations on how to compress the data (gzip or parquet).
I suspect that may be a result of those boards being more specifically focused on a particular topic. But, that's just a hunch, not something I can prove.
I was curious about the same thing, here's a list I found: https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl2-whats-ne...

I guess a big one outside of graphics is integer textures and bit manipulations.
The rest seems like general built-in additions.
There is no sale of a Swedish Wordle app that would impinge on a sale of an English Wordle app, so this reasoning makes no sense.
Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?
This is a piece of tech that has slipped under my radar for a long time. I've been having my own methods for safe handling of passwords on the web.

Why do people trust password managers?
'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer'

Drucker - 'The Practice of Management' is full of common sense 'anti-values'
I missed this the first time around, thanks for posting!

Mods, probably don't say it enough, but most of us deeply appreciate you!
Well... I can't read the tweet, but I can confirm that twitter isn't working.
I have no idea what their goals or tactics are. That is all still just speculation in my armchair commander opinion.

One small detail I did notice when they were pulling back was that when they loaded up the 12 tanks onto the train I could hear the final drives grinding in at least 3 of those tanks. It appears to me the drills they ran were a little too hard on the tanks and those are being sent off for repair suggesting to me the repairs required are more extensive than what can be performed in the field. I could be entirely wrong. See if you can find the videos of them loading up the tanks that have audio and crank it up.
>In the old days I don’t remember as much political / world news allowed.

In the old days, politics and world news were not as intertwined with technology as they are today.
No, investors bought 100% of U.S. homes in 2021. The entire housing economy is structured around expected zero-risk capital gains. Every buyer is an investor.
Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
If you've never done it, it's very hard, emotionally, to fire an under-performer. You see someone struggling and you know it's best for your team/company but now you're going to put that person out of a job.

I'm not excusing it, but I can see people putting off firing under-performers just to avoid feeling like shit.
Banning low-effort clones would make the App Store a better experience for me as a consumer. So the fact that Apple rejected this wordle clone makes me like the App Store more, not less.

Obviously Apple isn’t 100% successful given the screenshot of other clones allowed in, but I hope they improve — not weaken — that process of weeding them out.
That's not what "let the market decide" means. If you really let the market decide, then a business that was profitable despite zero in-store customer sales would be able to stay.
Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Torture of Immigrants
> So author missed the bus.

The author specifically mentions that many of these other clones were approved after Wörd was rejected.
As a sysadmin I really wish you had. SO MANY problems have come to my desk because some dude 3 years ago did not consider retention or rotation and now I have to figure out what to do with a 4TB .txt that is apparently important.
I have not heard of this unless its part of a recent local building code. I live in a house that was built in 1927 and partly renovated in the late 80's.
I think the doom of Google is highly exaggerated. But true that the quality of their primary service has degraded. But I don't even think it is SEO, far more annoying are "trusted news source". Perhaps they have the best SEO, but I think it is more about being buddies with the press for access. Some effects are outside their influence like Discord becoming prominent for content, which severely limits discoverability. IRC had the same problem, but it was often flanked by forums for specific topics.

I get that Discord is convenient, but you have some side effects not many people think about. Especially developers for games would really profit from another platform. Reddit for example has many benefits just because it is discoverable by search engines.
Here here. This and metafilter are my two islands of quality, both very much moderated.
No, we just need to build more housing.
Feels very similar to last time about a week ago. Profile pages aren't loading but the timeline is. TweetDeck still works so it doesn't seem like a backend api issue or anything severe.
Yeah, the ambiguity was intentional, and you're right.
It's also probably too late to really do anything about it, other than try to slow it down. A price crash would help people who want to buy their first home, but it would bring also fair amount of economic devastation along for the ride.
What browser are you using on Onyx, What's the default browser based on?
While I mostly agree with you, I think there are some reasonable arguments for why allowing alternative app stores could degrade the iOS experience, for example:

- Security, no matter how many warnings you throw up/hoops you make users jump through some number will be convinced to install scammy app stores and apps and then will blame Apple for it. And I imagine the App store has some deep hooks into the rest of iOS which would be difficult to change without opening potential security holes
- Fragmentation, competition is great if it serves the user, but multiple app stores could just mean an explosion of exclusivity arrangements and other user-hostile tactics that companies use to try and gain market share
Yep. I still can’t find several games that I purchased before simply because they are no longer in the App Store. There was a really solid iOS version of Final Fantasy VI/III, almost the entire catalog of games from Origin8 seems to be missing too. Would love to get them again but can’t for some reason.
But it sounds likely people in this case do not want the apple ecosystem. If you want the apple ecosystem, you want the app store.
Another thing people might not realize is that a lot of political comments die. With showdead enabled, you can see all sorts of junk that sounds more like the comment sections on political sites. Short comments that parrot the same talking points seen on TV die rather quickly.
As the article points out, a lot of those cases can be detected with advanced notice (dying battery, and overheating - probably even being too cold). In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed.

Spilled drinks are a viable cause for concern, but if they do enough damage to cause an unexpected shutdown, you've probably got bigger issues than unflushed cache.
Got to love those commenters. Until now cutting forests was ok because "renewable". Now IKEA is to blame for the last one.

They shall face it: it is too late. What the man accomplished in the last century will take centuries to recover, if at all.
So it’s the $100 a year fee that stops “talented developers” who would also have to have a phone that costs at least $400 and a computer that costs at least $700?
I thought of a term a while back for this kind of investment: "fiscal pollution."

It's when surplus savings is invested in ways that cause active harm to real people, communities, and productive businesses.

The pollution term comes in because this investment often flows from somewhere else. In the case of RE a lot of it is flight capital and money laundering. Money is being haphazardly parked somewhere that is not only non-productive but actively anti-productive. The people doing it don't care because they don't live there or are too rich to be affected, just like with many other kinds of pollution.
IT/HR will have a procedure and give you instructions.

Best case someone will pick everything up. Or you'll have to arrange shipping yourself. In any case they'll need to pay for it, and as long as you packed reasonably/followed instructions it's their problem if something is damaged or lost in transit.
Also Thunderbird. Free and works on Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD.
>The process is still slower than usual, at a relatively sedate 15-ish passwords per second. In theory, this could still take thousands of years, but most people use relatively short passwords which are vulnerable to dictionary attacks. The average password length is just six characters, which can be cracked in around 10 hours.

This means anyone with a strong password are still reasonably safe. I'd say the T2 security has been degraded but not completely compromised.

>Passware says that the add-on module is only available to government customers, as well as private companies who can supply a valid justification for its use.

Oh that makes me feel better... /s
We work hard to rapidly capture our market space! (But as a result, sales is allowed to bully engineering, and our technical debt is growing faster than the Internal Revenue Code)
interesting. but its a pain to scroll. I wish this went wide screen.
Yes it does, but usually \n is committed in git, but on Windows it checks out as \r\n. So you are right that it technically does not depend on the system, but in practice there is a difference.
Tracking and freezing accounts is something banks do all day every day, there's no reason this would be related to bank downtime.
Linux is used in many more contexts than OpenBSD. Moreover, unlike OpenBSD, Linux explicitly promises not to break userspace on new releases. So yeah, the Linux devs are more hesitant about anything that might be a user-visible behavior change.
DON'T PRESS THAT BUTTON.

The egress and early deletion fees on those "cheaper options" killed a company that I had to step in and save.
On a society level there should certainly be room for every type of voice. Governments shouldn't moderate forums. But there's definitely value in small communal focused bubbles like this as well, that isn't manipulated into derailment by some mob hive mind. (Speaking as someone very pro free speech.)
I agree that it's more likely all the banks use the same provider or IT service and it went down or had an issue, rather than the government trying to shut down the banks. But who knows, crazier things have happened.
I agree with you, so I don't use these kinds of services myself. But I'm not an authoritarian tyrant like these Dutch politicians seem to be, so I'm not going to try to ban other people from using these kinds of services if they want to.
That's a lot of words just to say "protest."
Then how is it squatting?

Even the article defined it as IP space not owned.

From the parent article "I will define IP address squatting as “using IP addresses that are not RFC1918 defined and not your unicast space issued by a RIR”."

Unless this is meant to construe all legacy assignments as "squatting" which is a pants on head definition.
New preview build adds Microsoft account requirement to Windows 11 Pro
Sure! In 1Password 8 we added system vaults that are only visible to the app. One of them is used to store the generated passwords. This vault is synced across all your devices and you always have access to the previously generated passwords.

The app no longer shows the generated passwords in the item list. Instead, they are available in the browser extension: https://cln.sh/YtKtAq

Systems vaults can also used to sync other data like certain user settings, search history, etc.
And this developer isn't employed at all. I wanted to hire him, but he said he cannot because of reasons.
I am not skeptical of the kid being able to do this. Good for them! I'm sure they will grow up to be an inquisitive and brilliant member of society.

However, like many, I feel like this article could be papering over... something.

OK I'll just say it: Privilege.

And hey! Not every kid with privilege ends up being brilliant! And he may not be privileged! But it is a lot easier to succeed when you have it.

And my problem with this article is this: We are constantly papering over how much of a difference a good education can make, and how little opportunity to get that quality of education there is in the United States.

You often see people bemoaning their lot in life: "Ugh. When Mark Zuckerburg/Bill Gates/insert CEO was my age, they already started Microsoft!"

And my reply to this sentiment is this: How many hundreds of thousands of dollars did your parents spend on your pre-university education? I'm willing to bet it wasn't in the hundreds of thousands.

I see this kid is from LA. Sometimes all it takes is being in the right zip code to have access to... science fairs? My school didn't even have AP classes! I thought science fairs were something that only happened on TV.

I realize this is a bit petty, and it 100% comes from my childhood where I went to a poor rural school where I was a poor student, and so-fucking-desperately wanted more, and then moved to the city, and succeeded, flourished once I got access to a better quality of education. But pretending it isn't there feels dishonest.

It feels like an onion article headline: "Kid with everything going for him, despite all odds, tremendously succeeds"
Alright, I have to respond to this.

> Instead of offering developers a real userland, you get forced onto zsh because Apple would rather die than ship GPL later than v2.

export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1
brew install bash # if homebrew is installed
chsh `which bash` # if homebrew is configured correctly

Done. I've been running without zsh just fine. oh-my-bash even exists! https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash

> Don't get it twisted, Apple hates you, and loves only money. It's only a matter of time until each and every Apple user is taught that.

No. Quod grātīs asseritur, grātīs negātur.
This is MASSIVE!! Kudos to the team on the release – on-demand ISR has been one of the most highly-requested features ever!!
Why would banks need to go offline for hours to freeze some accounts?
And I've heard this on HN before - we cannot simultaneously have affordable housing and look at housing as an investment.