skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we need to see some sources about how secure that data is. A lot of it can just be purchased, like repo men can. Stuff like your home location, work location, other locations you spend significant time at and can be photographed from the street, etc. The stuff they get through NCIC (registration, warrants, firearm license, etc) can be obtained by tow truck drivers who have access to the system, or through some of the background check services online. This sort of data hardly difficult to obtain.

Real-time phone location tracking is probably the only one that is more difficult to get. Even then, there have been cases where officers have abused that. Really, the reason more criminals don't use it is that the targets tend to be more random so it's easier to track a stranger using an airtag or GPS tag.

And of course, there have already been some people showing that stuff like onstar can be hacked to remotely stop a vehicle, not just by the cops.
The best use of free tier is to allow engineers at big companies to try things without having to get permission from someone.

There can be a lot of abuse, though.
Hmmm.. Is there a market for that?
I don’t know the actual numbers involved, but people are already jumping to the conclusion that it means 70% of customers are impacted.

“Affected” is doing a lot heavy lifting in this headline. The linked page states that a small number of customers are affects. So it’s 70% of a small number. Where “small number” is defined by Atlassian so we don’t really know the impact here. As best as I can tell my own usage has not been impacted at all.
Good luck socializing in other ways when your group of peers doesn't.
Change is usually the fault. Maintenance script is just one form of change. All the big boys have had this Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS, GCP, always a change
Twitter says billionaire Musk not joining board, warns of 'distractions ahead'
Nordic countries are different because even their "days" they sun can be seen 2-3-4 hours.
I haven't worked with it in almost that long, but I still hate it quite a lot.

I try not to be too fussy about tech overall, but Spring is on my "I won't work with this again" list:

1. Spring
2. Mediawiki Visual Editor / OOJS UI
3. Typo3
My father died from a glioblastoma multiforme. Median survival length for a glio is 11 months. He was diagnosed September of 2010. My father was in his late 50s, lifetime smoker, not particularly amazing or poor health before the diagnosis. He had surgery, chemo, radiotherapy. He died in March 2015. During that time he had occasional seizures and memory issues, but no progressive physical symptoms. We went to concerts while he was sick. He traveled. Other than the memory issues nothing was impairing his life.

The first sign anything went wrong at the end was a routine scan showing a small amount of growth 2 weeks before his death. The second sign anything was wrong was a phone call I got on a Friday where his speech seemed very tired. On Monday I got a phone call saying to fly home. He was awake but not especially alert when I got there. He died on Thursday or Friday.

So all that to echo that the trajectory of this person's illness is believable, whether or not the story is ultimately true.
That's an good idea.

Actually few LED lights didn't require too much power and maintenance.
He's not denying that (constant) communication isn't important.

But that, planned, too frequent, mandatory, with a prescriptive format, meetings (which dailies/weeklies are) is harmful.

I've been 21 years in this industry, the past 7 in Scrum/Agile infested companies/teams and I've never seen such a sterile and unproductive way of work.
> I fucking loathe leaf blowers...Get a damn rake!

I fucking loathe chain saws...Get a damn axe!

I fucking loathe lawn mowers...Get a damn scythe!

I fucking loathe loud diesel trucks...Get a damn wagon train!

I fucking loathe cellphone ringers...Get a damn semaphore!

Seriously, until you've done a full day's landscape maintenance yourself, you're not qualified to talk about leaf blowers. Luckily battery powered leaf blowers are getting better, and will be up to most households' maintenance needs soon, hopefully. I believe we're still a ways off from battery blowers being good enough for commercial crews though.
Then you need to deal with the outcome.

If Twitter started doing no (or very little) moderation it would suddenly be in conflict with many laws around the globe including the EU and the US.

That did fly a few years ago but I doubt it does today.

Other shareholders might not be to thrilled about them being banned
He says him and his kids are going to "review it together" until they earn his trust, sure sounds like fun.
> Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.

I visited a research institute in Garmish, Southern Germany. The building was next to a cow pasture, and all cows had really loud cowbells, constant noise even with windows closed. Does this happen in Switzerland, too?
Putin's asymmetric assault on democracy in Russia and Europe (2017)
This minority staff report prepared for the use of the committee on foreign relations in the U.S. senate does not mince words.
Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
I want to broaden my horizon regarding how things are solved in the real world. Other than some very high-profile companies (like Netflix, github) and companies that I've worked at, it's hard for me to find easily digestible (20-60 mins) examples of actual working architecture of differently sized companies from different business verticals.
It is pretty easy to run into truble with user accounts due to privacy regulations like Europe's GDPR. This stuff is definitly not fun in a side project.
I used to help run after school programs, and mentor quite a few Gen Z people in software engineering, sysadmin, etc.

Also, I used to be a kid.

Not every kid needs to conform to social norms.

To your point, plenty of kids will be successful with and without smartphones, but I would argue those that don't will likely be less prone to endless hours of doom scrolling on apps literally designed with casino-like dopamine drip algorithms to keep them addicted.

I choose to believe someone is not a shitty parent for trying to delay a child from having constant in-pocket access to addictive and harmful things.
That sounds at odds with "hurr durr you can only build a tech hub where all the talent is" which is the prevailing wisdom around here.
"Americans have no responsibility to take two seconds to ask themselves if their anxieties are based in reality, and as a consequence, they get to make their irrational fears everyone else's problem"
> In my native one the term 'cruise' is restricted only for sail

Do you not used a cognate word for "Cruise control" in your language?

In Hebrew "Shait" is used for sail, but also for the idea of cruise control and a cruise missile. I cannot think of any other uses, not even for patrol vehicles.
I live in one of the loudest areas in the planet. I'm not exaggerating when I say without my noise cancelling headphones I would barely be able to do my job. It is also one of the main reasons I don't see myself working on site again.
Breaking the Monolith at Twitch: Part One
> if one is distracted by the disproportionate cultural focus on racism.

Black senators and Congressmen complain that they are not treated equally as their white counterparts in the Capitol building by the Capitol police. These black politicians are literally upper class and yet they face these issues.
I really like Asianometrys videos. But I usually don't pay much attention to the titles
2. Mediawiki Visual Editor / OOJS UI

I find this helps with adding citations. I don't know why you'd fuss over something that seems easy to learn and easy to ignore.

[edit]

I had to look up OOJS UI. It appears I hadn't understood your comment.
The Value of a New Peer
A lot of people at the time thought Google should have bought Sun. Google was heavily involved in Java at the time (with Dalvik especially), and got in a lot of trouble with Oracle when they bought Sun.
Nah definitely not. Privacy is important. When you give your data to Google, you're one in a billion database entries. Google doesn't care what porn you're searching, they care about selling you stuff. A real human being, someone close to you, knowing what you are doing on your phone is something completely different
>Nobody gives a shit until it’s their own skin.

I hope that your life improves and one day you can meet emphathetic people who do give a shit about others skin. Maybe that day, you can make good posts online.
Posts are fairly few & far-between, but Cryptography Dispatches [1] always has very high-quality content; worth reading if you work in that space.

1: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches
It doesn't happen. You could have your car torn to shreds by cops looking for drugs that don't exist and they won't owe you a dime for the damages.
I'm all for worker safety, but I'd like to see evidence that this beeping is actually an effective measure vs a less annoying sound or the use of back-up cameras??

Seriously, where is the evidence of accidents avoided? Vs other measures?

side note: had to live next to a construction site for 2 years. The beeping started in the morning at sunrise and ran for 12 hours straight.

And I'm wondering what it is like for construction workers; for the noise to provide a safety measure, they would have to pay attention to it. But that means it can't be a constant. Which it is.
Is it illegal for him to sell his stock without publicly announcing it?
haha that as well, plenty of sympathy for everyone, there are no winners here
Lots of our readers would be agreeing with him if the case in question was someone with an FFL side gig getting their door kicked in for selling stuff that threads the needle of legality or some low margin small business owner getting his door kicked in over dodged taxes.

But because it's white collar fraud, the readers can empathize.
> Turns out he has 3 (!) patreons, together paying $9 per month.

It is possible that he already informed his patreons and they canceled their pledges except 3 of them.
I've only heard hate about Airbnb in the last 6 months. Very expensive and very bad experiences all around, almost everybody choosing to go back to hotels. Not sure what change exactly but their reputation seems to be nosediving.
SkipList in Go
> Could they maybe turn it down from 10pm to 7am?

They could, yes, but that depends on how much money the constructors spent. Some will go for the really fancy stuff that the janitor can fully control from their office, with everything relevant (air inlet and outlet temperature, tenant-individual air consumption, CO2 levels, ...) being measured and every tiny little actor (valves, bypasses, flaps) controlled in a carefully balanced flow that achieves optimal efficiency, while others will go for extremely dumb systems that offer little more control than "here's the circuit breaker, if you want more control you gotta climb to the roof and fiddle with the valves".

> Or put some lube on the device?

I doubt the problem is lube (unless it's actively creaking, and at that point the building management would be well advised to have the system inspected because that's a fire risk). Usually the problem is inadequate dimensions, caused (again) by financial decisions... basically, similar to a PC, the larger the fan the less RPM it needs to haul the same amount of air, and the less RPM it runs the quieter it is. Larger fan systems need more space (obviously) and are more expensive to purchase.
When I say I would not give a kid a smartphone, I am saying I would not give them an iOS/Android device which is what everyone today thinks when they hear "smartphone".

They would certianly have access to a portable device with a web browser like a small form factor linux laptop or tablet.

I also don't have a problem with the concept of social media. Neutral social media and messaging services that has no profit motivated data harvesting and behavior manipulation algorithims like Mastodon, Matrix, etc, I have no problem with. I would never allow a kid to use TikTok or a Meta/Facebook product however, as doing so is literally allowing strangers to pay to manipulate my kid towards any desired behavior change. That is just lazy parenting, IMO.
Ask HN: M1 Mac – is Mighty still worth it?
Curious how recent (and pretty out of the blue) advances in chip efficiency from Apple have changed the value proposition of offloading processing to legacy Intel chips running in the cloud. In particular, $30/month instead of getting an M1 MacBook (about the same if annualised over 3-4 years) now seems like a bad (worse?) deal.

Anyone here tried Mighty before and after a transition to M1 as their daily driver?
I made no such argument. I even specifically called out how conflicted I am in how to even assess what the right answer is.

To answer your question: numerous, with a multiple of that impacted in terms of the long painful witnessing of someone dying and/or carrying the emotional and physical burden of supporting the patient. Which is precisely why I am so conflicted.

Though I feel like your question was rhetorical and not an actual attempt to engage in understanding an alternate perspective.
You think those people have the life experience to know that it was odd that they didn't kick in the front door? Or that they even care that others are treated worse?
> if I somehow managed to get them to ditch Whatsapp, I would be held responsible for it.

No, think of it as a grassroots movement. You won't be doing anything by yourself, you'll be gathering just enough support to make it become a collective action.

It doesn't even to be a majority. Just a small group of parents saying "anything but WhatsApp" will at least get people to look for an alternative. If their excuse is "the current system from government is bad", the group can respond with "here is a list of messaging providers that use open messaging protocols."

It does NOT have to be a crappy app (e.g, Conversations XMPP is actually quite a polished client) and it does NOT have to cost a lot (I know that I can provide a fully managed service to schools for $0.10/user/month and still be profitable). All it takes is a small committed group refusing to take no for an answer.
A ‘New Era of Air Pollution’ in the Tropics Could Have a Toll
Prioritize Strengths
This is relevant, though. There are traffic laws and regulations in place for human drivers and this incident poses a conundrum: how are minor transgressions handled with autonomous vehicles?

Who gets fined? The owner? The manufacturer? Do the rules not apply to machines or to a lesser degree and if so, why?

Lots of interesting legal questions that are much more relevant in practise than hypothetical (and IMHO completely misguided) trolly-problem related ethical discussions.
Yes, and also that even if you make 'reasonable efforts' to stay off the radar, algorithms will build a shadow profile of you from other people's interactions with you they track. For example, if you send an email to a gmail account, google has access to that text you wrote even if they don't have you on gmail.
Your point sounds to me like: "It's your fault if you're miserable. It's up to you to confront your peers and fight your organization to protect your sanity"

No one automatically just knows when people are unhappy with a process if they don't talk about it. There are lots of people who think agile ceremonies are a good thing, and they think they work, and in a lot of cases they do work. People don't question that if they don't need to. Consequently, if you're unhappy with it, you need to say something.

"Quit for a better workplace" doesn't work for minor things because every workplace will have something that you don't like. You'll never be able to find the perfect role. You have to find somewhere that's mostly good, and then change it to be better. If you can't then you should move on.
Actually this is interesting because manufacturers should make same car but equip it with different parts.

Other example is turn signals. On EU they're orange. And when you drive after US imported car here drivers are confused because their turn signals are red. So driver behind don't know does front driver going to stop?

DRL - is few bucks, but it's great improvement of road safety.
You can do this with Fastmail by going to Settings => Domains => Edit => Routing.
It was run in a container, though:

- it was using Docker Swarm, which fell out of favour (Kubernetes won after all)

Docker Swarm is the built in Docker orchestrator, so it was running as a Docker container. It still doesn't protect you from anything around it breaking, such as the actual servers that the orchestrator runs on. Something like Ansible could have been useful (or even VMs with snapshots) for more easily reproducing the setup in case of failure, but it's perfectly fine not to want to do that if it wasn't financially viable.
> less than 1 out of every 100 children in 2000 were actually using desktop computer

Depends if you're talking about pre-teens or teenagers. ICQ alone had 100 million accounts in 2001. And I would expect teenagers to be amongst the first to use it.
This. Here is a great post on it from a fellow indie-hacker: https://casparwre.de/blog/launching-a-product-without-a-logi...

He built https://keepthescore.co/ precisely with this in mind.
Having worked on the logistics side at Amazon and having some inside into classic mail order, I think mail order tranasferred much harder to eCommerce than most people think. It starts with order entry (mail vs. automatic digital solutions linked to fulfillment), covers prices and catalog updates (real time vs. once every couple.of months, again integrated into fulfillment) and everything im between.
Focused work is essential to quality results in programming. I guarantee you that whatever piece of software you hold most dear as an example of how software should be made, the key parts of it were written in long uninterrupted stretches of work. Thinking up good solutions similarly is a focused work activity, and meetings are almost entirely unsuited to thinking of great solutions that cover all the edge cases (although they can be ok for thinking of good enough solutions).

Now, to understand the problem to be solved, to agree on a solution being proposed (out of the results of focused work), and to synchronize the progress when multiple people are working on said solution, this does require communication, and meetings are often a good way to do this. They are therefore essential to enabling the long uninterrupted stretches of work to produce great outcomes, but they must not come at the expense of that focused work.
> scheme using digital signatures

The simpliest one would be to have "CHIP S/N: XXXX MFG DATE: YY/MM/DD" signed by some CA and watermarked on each chip.

That doesn't prevent for a counterfeit manufacturer from grabbing a handful of original chips and watermarking a series of their counterfeit chips with it.

So it boils down to:

a) no watermark on a chip what should be watermarked: obvious counterfeit

b) one watermark on all chips: obvious counterfeit

c) a valid watermarks on a shipment of chips: if you order a ton of them AND you bothered to setup both the tests and means to store and compare the results, so it would be obvious when you receive the shipment of chips with watermarks what you already has tested.

for anyone else it would be

c2) chips with a valid watermarks: not a counterfeit
Choose a job. Choose life. I chose Debian.

Now, what I mean is; I made a commitment.

As Linux strains under complexity I am wondering whether to make a
full-commitment life switch to BSD. But it's been 20 years with Debian
and it's like a relationship I almost feel afraid to leave.

Operating systems are something I know a little bit about. After going
through the whole build Minix for 68000 from AT's book, then Linux
From Scratch and compiling kernels thing, and building Slackware over
a whole weekend, once I matured into needing a practical operating
system in my 30s I was attracted to Debian by its social contract and
"wholesome family atmosphere of Debbie and Ian."

I ended up building distros myself, learning the ropes of Debian
development (though I never actually joined the DD community). It's
been a rodeo ride. I loathe systemd and the whole "mother knows best"
Poettering schism. The CoC dramas and virtue parades in front of the
neighbours are just embarrasing. And then there's Uncle Ubuntu who
sometimes touches us inappropriately.

But in the end I keep coming back "to the family", because in the end
all families are dysfunctional and weird, so may as well pick one and
try to work with it.

So I agree with the OP's admonition of distro hopping. It feels like
restless promiscuity. Whenever I need to install a new OS I pick the
latest minimal Debian and go from there.
Spring Boot is squarely down that road, too. It's no longer XML files, but YAML is no better. And it's impossible to find out which part of the magic is connected where, governed by which values etc. And when it fails, it's impossible to say why because it's all magically autowired and hidden.

Edit: Well, the whole "no idea how to configure a thing" is the common refrain of any and all Java frameworks. Pray that your IDE has enough smarts to autocomplete something for you.
Asianometry[1]: Mostly about semiconductors, with YouTube videos
[1]:https://asianometry.substack.com/
Link to vanity version (a web version of the pdf): https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2203.08890/
Twitter decorum
Blindly repeating the misinformed comment "it's not assault, it's battery" is virtually guaranteed to garner dozens of upvotes from the types of people who live for that kind of pedantry (which is, on Reddit, a lot).
In Swedish at least the 'cruise' when talking about in ships and missiles is the same word, but "cruise control" is a completely different word (literally "speed holder"). You can't "cruise" in you car in Swedish.
Sure, but why do you want that on your board? Elon might have enough money already but everyone else would like to continue making it. He is very good at guerrilla marketing, but I guess they decided it wasn’t worth it.
In Japan everyone passes around CSVs in shift-jis still for exactly this reason - the default opening action of Excel with CSVs.

Its easy to say its people being dumb, but at this point I really wish excel just wasn't so confident in itself and actually asked you during the default open operation what you want to do.
Every HN discussion about this was rather tame and everyone respected the scope of the outtage. The only one jumping to conclusions at the moment is you.
True but there is also a difference in priority with different package maintainers which isn't always helpful.

Why were old features removed from the upstream packages? Probably because upstream either wanted to ditch old/insecure protocols or the usage was too low to warrant the investment in keeping it alive. That is completely reasonable for them.

Then look at something like SSLPing, it wants to support old protocols because that is part of the feature set for older servers which have no realistic need to update.

It's something I find a bit troubling about the very vocal "security" crowd for whom only the latest and greatest ciphers/protocols/short-lived ssl certs/stronger DH key pairs are acceptable and everything else is garbage.

Sadly, it seems that realistically, only paying/charging will help this because then it is reasonable for someone to spend 40 hours of their week keeping up with the changes/building their own libraries/etc. to keep their project running.
PS: I'm not a user of SSLPing, but I built OnlineOrNot and we have a basic SSL verification feature that'll alert you when your SSL certificate is no longer valid: https://onlineornot.com/docs/ssl-verification

Looking at building out this feature further (with expiry warnings 3/7/14/x days before cert expiry), let me know if you're interested.