skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was talking about 32-bit x86. REX is indeed very wasteful :-)

(Even then, there's a lot of waste in the "legacy" prefix bytes, and I've always wondered who hacked those into the ISA instead of designing something more compact.)
Isn't this literally what Ring does?
That article is full of terrible advice. Example:

> Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail

"ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities"
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
SuperRT: A realtime raytracing extension chip for the SNES
Back in the old days, cheap labour coloured in images by hand. Sometimes, they corrected late-stage typos and print errors by hand too. This is sort-of related to the origin story of "tuppence coloured, a penny plain" although thats about prints more than machine printing (although a printed handsheet was pretty mechanised)

I've bought books which had correction slips in them (mainly textbooks)
In fact within our industry we’ve nearly normalized developers spending their own time and money to pull more entry level developers into the work force. I’ve participated in several weekend beginner bootcamp type things, donated money, and will probably continue to do so, but considering the incentives is interesting. Of course these bootcamp things get peanuts of sponsorship from whatever big players are in town, but the real sponsors are the volunteers that spend their own time on these things, and for what? Brownie points for helping beginners, or making tech more diverse, or so that tech companies have bigger, cheaper pool of labor? It’s cynical, but the tech biz really are masterful at propagandizing people against their own interests and distracting us from the fact that they have made the most absurd amounts of money imaginable.
not sure myself, but could be useful to make some quick visualization of some database. often I just want to know some random stuff, so I'll use a SQL query, this looks like a neat way to do that, get some graphs too.
Browser isolation isn't quite that. It's just running a browser that is heavily sandboxed from internal files and networks, or running on another machine so any exploits don't hit your machine.

It's very much like running a browser through Citrix (in particular the remote flavour which is the most common as far as I've seen). But of course any data in the browser itself is still within reach for the malicious code... Which only solves half the problem. Unless you rigidly separate internal browsing from external sites.

But it doesn't run all the JavaScript and then send you a screenshot or anything. The resulting page is still interactive.

Remote browser isolation has the ability to change the landscape of personal computing enormously by the way. Right now we equip all our laptops with at least 16GB (32 for customer care) because some web apps like Salesforce Lightning are such memory hogs.

Considering the importance of the browser in modern computing this model world basically make the PC more like a terminal and require much less resources.

Of course this has already been going on with web based apps and streaming of things like games but this could be the final nail in the coffin of the PC as we know it. Not sure I'm happy with that...
> Nothing is different now.

1. Venture capital is making major investments in India, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. At a scale never before seen.

2. Offices will never happen again. Now employees could be in Antarctica for all you're concerned -- as long as they're on a relatively friendly time zone with the rest of their team, it'll work.

This time is different.
The greatest minds of a few generations really should think about not being evil.
Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies
This is something I've realized as well. There's only a few of us that are excited to do this work and that's what you need to do it longterm.
I use Weave.jl to generate daily news html for my self and close friends by a config file with an array of http apis providing data in csv,figure in base64 or markdown text, easy setup with caddy file-server. When I find a datasource like yours, I add it to the config and my daily news gets longer.
Using Gemini as an allowlist doesn't seem any better than allowlisting known-good domains for HTTPS sites
I don't see your point. I'm sure it would have been very interesting back in 15th century to investigate the impact of continued literacy among the populace and its effect on various power structures: religious, economic, and political. Today we know the answer so obviously in hindsight it seems obvious and maybe trivial, but I don't think it would have been at all trivial back then to investigate the matter.
cat /usr/share/misc/flowers
Learning is just one of the many value props of a college, and possibly the less important one. They're social networks + outsources conscientiousness/IQ tests for the labor market + personal brand building institutions.
No, but it does to nonsensically apply the same rule in literally every context. People and programmers are not apples. The economy and society are not gravity. I don't know what else to tell you, and I guess it doesn't matter, since people with a zero sum world view can't be convinced otherwise.
Looking at the screenshots of the admin panel (and the fact that pictures further down seem to show switch ports) it seems that this is a modem/router/switch combo. Unlike many providers that just provide a modem with no router functionality and just an Ethernet port.

It still would be easier to just put it into bridge mode if that's an option and use a better router, it is still an interesting hacking project!
I don't, but I did need the hardware timestamping feature to demonstrate certain facts about the linux networking stack.
I co-develop an open source firewall for Android, which most of our users use for ad-blocking purposes.

The community has known about server-side collection for quite sometime now. You could run Google Analytics on any of the serverless environments since a year or two ago (I noted this on news.yc a year back [0][1]). Tag Manager server-side is Google throwing its own solution in to the mix.

DNS based content blocking was always DoA, there simply are too many chinks in the armour besides CNAME or HTTPS/SVCB or SRV or ALIAS record cloaking [2]. The worst I've seen reported to me by users is a tracker generating domains names on-the-fly (domain generation algorithms) and A/AAAA records pointing to different IP addresses each time [3].

That said, a firewall can still mitigate this offensive, while network security with just DNS was always going to be what it was: A stop-gap.

This isn't the end-game: I fully expect that IP address blocklists would crop up in no time, and will be painfully maintained by folks pouring their life in to it.

TFA points that Google's reverse-cloaking presumably with IP addresses, but the worse would be if multiple domains shared IP addresses (like in a CDN), reverse-cloaked with Server Name Identification. Even firewalls would have to blanket block IPs... and what if those IPs are shared with other Google front-ends like the AMP project / YouTube / Mail / Docs?

The firewalls would also have trouble with something like Ao1 [4]: If multiple websites were behind multiple IPs, or in the extreme, a single IP.

The firewall is bust, but that's good, now we simply de-Google / de-Cloudflare ourselves, and be luddites like they want us to be.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26003654

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169029

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298339

[3] Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/srza8x/changi...

[4] https://nitter.net/rethinkdns/status/1448738898998292495
Offices are still "happening" and will not go away. The current optimism about remote work is overly exuberant, and many people will be disappointed about the pullback of remote work over the next few years. Also, people are dreaming if they think Silicon Valley companies will continue to pay Silicon Valley salaries to workers in other locations, even if remote work continues to be broadly accepted.

Furthermore, India and much of Europe (especially eastern Europe) are definitely not friendly time zones for collaboration with colleagues in North America.

It's really not different this time.
That is incorrect. WA still requires masks indoors. https://doh.wa.gov/emergencies/covid-19/masks-and-face-cover...
The US government isn't shy about adding rules for its contractors. It should be trivial for them to demand (or provide) dedicated IPs for their sites. Then they won't get caught up in the IP address blocking of GCP.
> Congratulations on English being the one and only language you use to make quick notes, then

It is. If it weren't, I would not use this editor.
I always wondered how much negative revenue the adblock extension is generating for Google. It must be in the billions. Crazy to think a simple extension can be involved with that much money.
Trawling to trolling is only a Levenshtein distance of two.
Unbiased citation needed. IQ is politically incorrect, but there seems to be evidence to support its validity.
This seems perhaps an idealistic take on how effective the layers of abstraction are.

To examine just one of the examples
>> these days it's just a form you hav to fill and express some rules about accessing the resources in "plain English".

I'm of the opinion getting the cloud to run your systems effectively, and without blowing a large hole in your budget, may be a little harder than it seems from that sentence.
OMG! You made it! Can't wait to try on my family tree! Can't thank you enough!!!

Btw: you know what marley.cht was for, right? I printed it out, fold it and put inside casette tape plastic box.
There's a difference between believing there is a zero sum world view, and observing that every economy that has ever existed has generally operated on boom and bust cycles.
Good for you. I was diagnosed as being short-sighted when I was 6. Had my first computer at 9.
The whole point of the article is that the average active Lichess user would be 95th percentile of people who know how to play chess.
Proud uMatrix user here. Sadly, just noticed that the repo is now archived and I don't know if it will be maintained. Could not find any fork either.

I'll miss this extension.
Curious what steps you took to get the most out of your team when some teammates aren't intrinsically motivated? Did you build a sort of incentive structure?
Depends how is implemented. Currently: possibly, but likely not if all the steps were implemented.
Neil's site is one of those where it pays to manually edit the URL to back up a level or two: https://neil.computer/notes/ has a great collection of rants and raves.

Some favorites from the last five minutes of surfing:

Apple's UI is Regressing: https://neil.computer/notes/apple-ux-ui-is-regressing/

Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets: https://neil.computer/notes/analog-devices-datasheets/ (this one really hits home because of the downright-revolting design of their newest data sheets)

Release Notes: https://neil.computer/notes/release-notes/

The Design of Diskprices.com: https://neil.computer/notes/the-design-of-diskprices-com/

Oh, Sorry, I was on Mute: https://neil.computer/notes/oh-sorry-i-was-on-mute/
The article was mostly about things like table tennis and card games, not really careers (since I would consider getting an education "practicing regularly" which the article said it wasn't referring to). Most people who practice can become relatively good at table tennis, drawing, juggling, etc.
The point is that DNS ad blocking is being worked around with this new system, because it looks like part of the site you're on. Also, that google is encouraging modifying the JS to prevent automated tools from blocking the javascript.
It's certainly possible, I just don't see any real evidence for it yet. AI has a history of promising demos and then very long (decades) stalls in progress. I could be wrong, but I'm skeptical of the current round of AI as well. It will generate code in the same way as AI generates online articles or music - not very well.
> In most data centers today, cooling accounts for greater than 40 percent of electricity usage.

Assuming the only power usage in a DC is actual compute and cooling, that would mean 100 kWh of power used would be 60 kWh compute and 40 kWh cooling, or a PUE of 100/60 = 1.67.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness#Nota..., this was already far from the truth in 2008.

Hard to take the article seriously after making claims like that. (Others are also correctly pointing out that the alleged "power usage per hour of video" numbers that this and similar articles like to cite simply don't make any sense.)
jekyll - markdown files pushed , builded and deployed by github pages
The shapes are often rotated at an angle which doesn’t give you great viability. One three of them are positioned like that it’s anyones guess
"95 percentile" vs "1 in 20" is a good example of how confusing statistics are. First sounds excellent, second sounds like anyone could (try to) do it.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS?location...

What we are witnessing is government that does not work for the good of the country and its people, but for the good of themselves and the special interests who bankroll them.

The healthcare system is perpetually run on the brink of disaster, but it turns out that it's everybody else's fault and therefore responsibility for preventing its collapse.
> How has Google been able to impose itself again? As with Google Analytics, the standard version of Google Tag Manager is free (market solutions are generally paid), it is very well integrated with other Google solutions and it is well done.

Not sure what they mean by 'market solutions' here?
Just in case you haven't seem them yet, the Rocketbook "Smart Notebook" tries to pave a path between taking natural notes with pen and ink and capturing them digitally for various purposes, including searching the OCR'd handwriting.
So there is precedent, OFC it doesn't exist in a vacuum, but whem Microsoft was forced to provide browser alternatives, most people went with other browsers. Sure, some used IE or edge still, but it meant people knew it was even an option, which was arguably big.

Of course, we are currently in danger of Chrome being the monopoly, and seeing already all the awful things that brings. But this is in part directly related to the scam going on with device lockin - it's not just Android, but that plays a large part in Chrome takimg majority market share.

Demanding app stores are allowed, or better that devices can be repaired by anyone, would mean more alt OS installs, more aftermarket devices, healthier software ecosystem, more economic activity.

The Irony of these tools not being widely available, means in Western countries there is not much of a third party market, not much software support, whereas countries like China can have built up the infrastructure to manufacture novel phones almost overnight...
Block the code that they suggest changing the name, domain, and function signatures of? How?
Fortunately, as bad as this is, I don't believe many companies will implement the worst version of it. (Server side + subdomain + different name scripts)

The reason is that we had server-side analytics available for years and virtually every big website still implements the clientside part. If they can't be bothered with that, I don't expect they'll move the whole tag manager any time soon.
I use NoScript with Firefox on Android (together with uBlock Origin). After I unblocked the websites I regularly use (and not the ad delivery domains), it doesn't get in the way that much.
How much would you pay per month for custom-per-site tracking blocking as described here?
Concerning noscript, is this [1] still a thing?

[1] NoScript is harmful and promotes malware - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624000
> telecom equipment is regulated

This is tricky, because "telecom" only has POTS and cable TV within its scope. "Internet" service that just uses ethernet technologies are their own separate thing, and why "Ma Bell" megacorps can get away with their junk Internet service because it's regulated differently than POTS.
This was modded down, but commented on favorably. Am I wrong about this giving Google a backdoor into every web site that uses it?
In Malaysia, for USD 5000, you'd be able to go 4 months on a fairly luxurious budget alone, and that should also cover things like healthcare, housing, public transport, and eating out every day. Flight might take a big chunk of that though.

English is spoken by everyone, race/religion integration is quite good, urban internet is fast. There's enough good food for everyone.

You could probably stretch the budget further in Indonesia. There's more unicorns in Indonesia, so tech and people are a bit more advanced. Salaries are a little lower and tighter. Malaysia & Thailand is mid-range, Singapore is high salary for the region. Bali's a nice place to be and a hub for remote workers; it's often on the benefits list for many companies.
I also liked Godfather III, but not as much as I or II.

I see the third part as a portrayal of changing of times. Gone are the days of past, the time has changed, and so has characters and the story.
It doesn’t.

Software has been eating the world, and there’s no sign of it stopping.

Software gave people like me a way to escape dire economic situation, and is the main reason for increased social mobility as in having lots of options. That is attractive to every young person out there, and the demand goes up and to the right.
Not really a midpoint, but more on a similar level to Index. Generally, people like Index more than the Vive Pros on most points (display, audio, controllers, etc.) except for the wireless capability, and some niche features like eye tracking on the Vive Pro Eye. If you want a wireless high-end headset, Vive is the only game in town (Index is wired-only) so you have to get a Vive. It'll end up being more expensive than Index because the wireless adapter is $350. Since the Vive Pros and Index share the same tracking system, people do mix and match equipment other than the headset though. Many people will buy a Vive Pro headset and use Index controllers with them, since they're better. Index users will buy Vive trackers for full-body tracking because nothing equivalent exists for the Index.
How would this work in practice? Who would pay and who would provide the service? Wouldn't it make sense for the parents to provide this service, or would there be forced conscription either in the form of forced labor (directly i.e. slavery) or forced labor (indirectly via taxation)?
Yeah, I was diagnosed at 6, had my first sustained computer interaction at 9, had my first computer at 21, first cellphone at 25. (I'm old, but I also live in the myopia capital of the world)
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Great writing and research. You added great examples to make it clear, both in code and gifs. It was both fun to read and interesting. I was surprised to see Netscape running, I might try as well to play with the first JavaScript.
Welcome to why metrics in ill-conditioned systems are the most toxic policy instruments on Earth.
You can fight against it by refusing to use these websites?

If you can't do this, perhaps because a big _majority_ of users don't care enough to support this kind of ecosystem shift, what makes you think a majority of voters would support this? (And if not, why would you want to force your view on them?)

It's like legislating that people should only listen to Good Music and eat Healthy Food, as defined by some people who know better than the unwashed masses?
Legal risks? I'm unaware that it's ever been enforceable anywhere, and I don't think there's ever been enough awareness of its existence to cause reputational damage.

Personally I think the whole thing fell through the moment it was conceived in 2009. We're going to ask nicely that people who are tracking us, who know that we don't want to be tracked anyway, kindly refrain? The whole idea was laughable.

Its advocates got annoyed when Microsoft enabled it by default on a version of IE several years ago, as then it wouldn't be perceived as a reliable indicator of intent. This really just exposed the problem with the whole thing, that it was going to be hidden away in settings where few people would go, and rely on the good will of effectively known-bad actors to respect it, and just maybe they would respect it if we keep it more-or-less a secret that only techy people bother with.

(Sorry, this rant is not aimed at you, it's just a bit of a pet hate)
For the school, no. For the general population, yes.
I don't think anyone is disputing the economy has boom and bust cycles. But despite the great depression, two world wars, the cold war, the dot com bubble, the 08 crash, insane environmental destruction, climate change etc etc the economy is growing, the global population is growing, and rather than more and more people fighting over less and less resources, pretty much everyone everywhere is healthier and more prosperous than ever, and extreme poverty is on track to be completely eradicated in our lifetimes. (this doesn't mean there aren't exceptions, or that there isn't still lots to do to address climate change, global economic and health inequality etc etc, but it does prove the peak oil doomer zero sum world view people wrong)
Do you really want to go down the rabbit hole of discussing just how many fallacies you stuffed in a one-liner? Is that what passes for discourse on HN nowadays?
My Dropbox has 1.1M files in in, many of which are photos (and then stupid stuff like thumbnails of the same photos from iPhoto in 2008). However, my impression when they said all the compute and all the laptops is 2%, I'm like, "not so bad." We get a ton of value out of that stuff - music and books and movies and phones and pictures and even adult ed and stuff my parents did with physical stuff and don't have to travel so much because can video and stuff. If they can get right to repair and full-lifecycle closed loops going once (maybe?) the tech settles down a bit more, it'll be a net gain I'm pretty sure.
Man, that's a really screwed up outlook

I got piped out of Microsoft and Amazon, both cases after years of excellence on my part because my VP lost a fight with another VP.

In my case, I knew that I was a five star engineer in a 3 star company and landed on my feet easily both times. The experience was awful, though, and anyone with an ounce of humility or respect for authority could have been crushed by it easily. Yet here you come, just assuming everyone you come across is a sad loser.

IMO, you and every salaried engineer are someone who's willing to settle for donating 90% of the profits from their labor to shareholders in exchange for a little bit of comfort and an illusion of safety.
I'm amazed that web site development and web servers are still so complicated. I expected that to be all drag and drop by now. Most of it isn't very original.

As for programmer employment, we've seen that collapse before. Go read SFGirl from 2001.[1] Check out the Pink Slip Parties.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010302012226/http://www.sfgirl...
Would be a bit creepy sure. But who am I to judge what other people install in their houses? I don't have to go and visit them, if I don't like it.
people don’t generally tend to feel this way about training to work in medicine or hvac or law. or even language, really. obviously children learn how to use language, but training for a professional job as a teacher or a translator (or whatever) doesn’t start at age 8.