skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, Linkedin was incredibly easy to scrape back in the day, wrt profile/email correlation. Can't buy any aggressive stance they may have against 'scrapers'.

2 options.

Their Linkedin ID's are base 12, and would redirect you if you simply wanted to enumerate them.

You could also upload your 'contacts', 200-300 at a time and it'd leak profile IDs (Twitter and Facebook mitigated this ~5 years ago). I still have a @pornhub or some such "contact" that I can't delete from testing this.
It’s not nearly as widespread in 2022 as you might like to think.

To get a low-skilled work visa in Dubai you have to sit through an hour long lecture explaining these rights, including what to do if your employer takes your passport.

You are advised to not give your passport to your employer except to have your visa stamped, and then immediately demand it back.

This country is modernizing very rapidly, things that were true 5 years ago are often not true anymore.
Shapeshifter was epic. Could enrage any apple fanboy around running benchmarks much faster than stock mac because roms were loaded in fastram. That expensive Quadra was toasted against my cheaper A2000 + Fusion forthy at running anything, including photoshop.

There was that other board that was supposed to emulate pcs mac and whatnot that ended up only running macos and vapor, that was a shame though. Awh yes, Infamous Jim Drew. 30yrs later, still remember that name…
We will probably come up with alternative chemistries. NiFe while not portable, is great for stationary applications. I would prefer to have a bank of NiFe batteries at home than a tesla wall. And probably my insurance company would think the same.
This article is written in response to articles/claims proclaiming that nuclear war will cause people to become extinct (or similarly overblown claims).

If they are downplaying nuclear war - can you recommend articles of a similar quality presenting claim that nuclear war is worse than presented here?

And this article still presents it as an horrific disaster - and maybe it assumes that people are aware that millions would die in just opening of the nuclear war, it would be worst disaster in history. And that such thing happening would be bad. And unwanted.

And focused on countering "we will all die" perspective.

For example they are taking as given that USA shooting down Russian planes over Ukraine is nonstarter because it increases risk of nuclear war,
If you can assume the scene you're capturing is fairly static over time, you can sometimes sort of cheat physics a little bit (keeping space constant and leveraging time) by resampling areas multiple times from different perspectives and cleverly combining that data together

Problem is that most the interesting bits people want more data on are quite dynamic in space and time, not just time. Even when it's not you don't gain linear subsampling improvements and eventually get diminishing returns with such approaches.
I have no idea if the story is true but FWIW in the 80s and 90s Steve Jobs used to speak admiringly about Sony quite a bit.

Not sure if that survived his return to Apple.
Zebra Crossing
I heard it as: "If you're considering buying a boat, step into the shower, turn the water on, and stuff $100 bills down the drain while you get drenched. Same experience."
Negligible isn’t free either.
I think lots of website owners know exactly where the value in their content exists. Whether or not they want to share that in a convenient way, especially to competitors etc is another story.

That said if scraping is inevitable, it’s immensely wasteful effort to both the scraper and the content owner that’s often avoidable.
Code Is LOL
I'm curious was the second form of auth an SMS text with an auth code or is their Google Authenticator app somehow tied to the phone number?
The problem I have experienced first-hand is basically that

>individual farms might want to look at relative growth rates of corn in their fields, or soil moisture levels, etc.

a LOT of people want this, but they would never pay $x,xxx/month for that, ever.
>> but any one algorithm only serves an extremely niche audience.

Forget the algorithm. They need to fix their customer service, their sales process. Customers want pixels, but they need basic services: simple and a predictable price. I want to give a location (pix+radius, four corners or whatever) and a delivery schedule (once a week etc). But when I try to buy that stuff I get package deals, "ask for a quote", and vague statements about times. That doesn't work. Normal customers, ie not intelligence agencies, don't want a drawn-out negotiation process. The first company that can provide a basic web interface for purchasing imagery quickly and piecemeal will win the market.

Top of the list for small customers are probably high-end real estate agents. They want to monitor their neighborhoods for houses that are under delayed construction or backyards/pools that are being neglected (sure signs of someone ready to sell).

Civil litigation attorneys: I want everything you have about this particular intersection. Cops: I want any images you have of this house between these dates. News agencies: There is a Russian ship on fire at X location. When can you get us an image? And a great many other small customers I cannot think of at the moment.
The country analogy is to point out that not all places have the same values. Standing up for yourself might work at some companies. At others it might get you fired.
The term "Systems Programming" is pretty wide and encompasses everything from databases and distributed systems which can and are written in Java (eg Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka) to really low level embedded devices with only a few kb of memory.

I am not sure if you are committed to the later but for the former you can do that in Java by the finding the right company. I also think (but don't have anything to back it up other than anecdotes) that the job market for the former is much bigger than if you solely restrict yourself to embedded systems, not just in Java but also in Rust/Go where a lot of companies are making that type of software.

For embedded device playing around, you could do some fun projects with micro-controllers (eg Raspberry Pico or ESP32):

* Write tiny db library (think sqlite with a smaller set of features)

* Write a multitasking OS for the Pico (easier than writing an os for traditional machines as you don't really have to support peripherals, you could look at FreeRTOS api and try to implement something that looks like it)
There are soooo many UAE arrest stories. All the following are non-muslim non-citizen people, so they can't claim any kind of citizen or religious jurisdiction:

- A woman had a glass of wine while flying to UAE on UAE own airline!!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/11/woman-arrest...

- A guy accidentally touches the hip of another guy in a club

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/22/briton-jailed-...

- A non-married couple kissing in a restaurant

https://abcnews.go.com/International/TheLaw/kissing-couple-f...

And on and on and on.

Typically, if you are the citizen of a powerful country (US, UK, EU, ...) they will let you off with a fine.

If you are the citizen of a less powerful country, like this Lebanon doctor, you go to jail.
Oh! Very interesting. I didn’t know about that one. Thank you.
> Just editing fucking textfiles and copying it back to a normal PC (that isn't a mac) is a real bitch. Especially if you don't have an internet connection. It's almost as bad as a ti84+ honestly.

If you're on Android, I suggest looking at F-Droid; there exist decent text editors and file managers, and failing all else Termux manages to drag a decent amount of sanity in.
I generally use uBlock Origin to delete the "download yet another goddamn app!" nag-boxes.
Inline sixes are better-balanced than flat sixes.
I’m just using it as an example of a case in which a public profile doesn’t automatically mean anything goes. I had hoped to generate discussion about how to throw out some of the bathwater without throwing out the baby too, but I guess no one is really interested.
Gourmet batteries, for the discerning audiophile, er... automophile.
There's a large group of political organizations apart from just tax filing services and companies that believe that it is intrinsically bad for the government to just tell citizens how much they owe. They are very loud and influential.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848324
Sure, but while I would mention that while talking over the question, I also wouldn’t turn up my nose at the chance to show off my programming skills. This is an interview, after all.
I guess I'm the only one who thinks this is a dumb gimmick. There's no way this is more environmentally friendly than dim LED's on a full lifecycle carbon emissions per lumen-hour. One of the systems bubble oxygen. That alone probably uses more energy than an equivalently bright LED. These are not going to be very bright at all. Then you have to maintain each "bio-bulb" with nutrients which requires energy to produce and distribute. This makes no more sense than replacing street lights with glow sticks.
Ahhhhh, search results makes a whole lot more sense! Thank you. Search can't be cached and the people who want to use your search functionality as a high availability API endpoint use different IP addresses to get around rate limiting.

The low millions of products also makes some sense I suppose but it's hard to imagine why this doesn't simply take a login for the customer to see the products if they're unique to each customer.

On the other hand, I suspect the price this company is paying to mitigate scrapers is akin to a drop of water in the ocean, no? As a percent of the development budget it might seem high and therefore seem big to the developer, but I suspect the CEO of the company doesn't even know that scrapers are scraping the site. Maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks again for the multiple explanations in any case, it opened my eyes to a way scrapers could be problematic that I hadn't thought about.
technically it’s possible to mirror tweets from Twitter directly, just find a Mastodon instance which supports this
Israel seems to have a relative degree of immunity when it comes to subverting UK pol. Anyone ever see the investigative journalist piece of the Zionist group trying to subvert the UK Labour Party? They had a journalist go undercover for 6 months recording all kinds of things they weren't meant to:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ceCOhdgRBoc

There was only minor fallout from this incident, and I imagine it will be the same here.
Imagine for a moment that in the UAE it's illegal to not keep your right hand on your left shoulder - sure you can make it work and conform, but you're compromising a lot of your natural behavior to fit in for no good reason. That cost might be worth it to some people but it's definitely a cost and it's an unreasonable one.

You'll need to be conscious of how you walk with your partner, you'll need to carefully consider how it'll look if you go out for a fancy dinner together and invent a cover story to cloak your actions, you'll probably be charged a gay-tax by being forced to rent separate hotel rooms or at least a room with double beds in it.

I find the description of "just keep it in your pants" to be offensively reductive.
Pay more for the corporate class laptops from HP or Dell i.e Elitebook

Supported longer, better materials, better keyboards.

I'd buy a second hand elitebook over a new acer or whatever any day.
Fair.

I was coarse. Reading through, I was able to see it

Life, people, come with a bazillion, edge, corner, intersection cases, right? I am moved by the likes of Lessig, RMS, others in that we are super complex! And computer tech right now is missing a couple big things!

Meaning and reasoning basically.

Context is hard.

In the "we just want to play on a fair field" context, of course! I get it. Tech can help with cheaters for sure, though I do think it is a temporary help at best. The really brilliant people with resolve get through and may well be as great of a gamer as they are cheater. The challenge, "real game" is what really gets them going.

One could say the same of a cartel leader, thief, and others who play this game of life in that way.

And we struggle with tech and law constantly!

There are parallels.

Poor law causes a lot of grief, wasted time, people enduring punishment that should not, and we have a process for that.

And it is a shitty process!

I would feel a lot better with a similar dynamic applied where we do reach for tech tools.

Another parallel: mandatory sentencing. We put people, many of whom are elected, others selected, who we believe worthy of judgement (And I know how debatable that all is, just roll with it for sake of discussion please!), into a position of real power, and we accept that because our lives are generally better for having done it.

Mandatory Sentencing is a mess. Now we basically take this complex human capable of judgement and boil it down to a more rule based thing not so unlike what computers would do. I am not sure that ever made sense. Whether it does is an interesting discussion, but what I really want to say here is more about where tech falls short and put some meat behind "social", as I should have done.

We are perhaps not so far apart on this. Seems my lazy comment got me a robust discussion I find far more worthy than the comment was!

Nice when that happens.

Circling back then, if I am to say anything, it is process which bothers me the most.

When we are really impacting people, ruining lives or changing them seriously, or improving them frankly, there are no do overs. Our time here is our time and taking that very, very seriously seems like it should matter a whole lot more than it often does with tech and social / society.

We are trending toward more bad fits than good in my view.

RMS, character that he is, absolutely does take it hard to an extreme. He should not have ruling power, but we need that voice, just as we need ours.

In that context, your push back was solid and for me useful and productive! I am better for having worked at this a bit. And these matters are important. Increasingly so.

I hope my attempt to clarify and back away from the worst of my thoughts here is similar for you.

We both are likely to come away from this tuned up a bit and better at the topic at the very least. (True for me)

Cheers and game on!
I run a small 2 person family pleroma instance. I truly believe fediverse to be the best thing to happen to internet in a long time because just like in my case, I can have my own server with anyone I like. We don't need to serve 1000 people of different tastes, if I am content with people I am comfortable, why do I need to be exposed like on a public platform like twitter?

Or Facebook which monetizes this same interaction for what benefit of mine? I am getting the same/similar interaction with people I care about, on my own dime.
> I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value.

Smartphones are mostly toys, dark pattern traps for procrastination. They are not productive tools, because you're always going to be a fraction as productive as you are on a full-size screen and keyboard. The only exception is maybe photography, since the sensors are finally catching up to entry-level DSLRs (optics still aren't, and probably never will)

Even most laptop users I know make use of several external monitors and a keyboard and a dock for other accessories.

> The problem is that we don't want to pay

Not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting that end-consumers should be willing to pay developers to not work at corporations and instead focus on creating some kind of open-source dark-pattern free paradise ecosystem for smartphones and other portables?
Yes, you can run your own code on an iPhone.

You can't run arbitrary binaries, but you can run whatever code you want.
By all means provide us with the name of any individual who was sent to Gitmo for a tweet.
I was a kid in the 90s Los Angeles, and being somewhat familiar with jets from kids books and MSFS, is it me or does anyone else seem to remember the Learjets in the air at the time being the absolutely loudest sound they've ever heard?
The court just ruled that scraping on its own isn't a violation of the CFAA. Meaning it doesn't count as the crime of "accessing a protected computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access and obtaining information".

However presumably all the other provisions of the CFAA still apply, so if your scraping damages the functioning of a internet service then you still would have committed the crime of "Damaging a protected computer by intentional access". Negligently damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1 year in prison on the first offence. Recklessly damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1-5 years on the first offense. And intentionally damaging a protected computer is punishable by 1-10 years for the first offense. These penalties can go up to 20 years for repeated offenses.
I had an Android. Every update made Termux less and less capable (IIRC exec is very complex or impossible in a recent one.) Now I have a Pinephone running a normal X11 DE and I don't have to tolerate an ounce of stupidity. Sure there are legitimate good faith defects in the software but nothing is intentionally broken just for the sake of it.

ssh just works (the phone shipped with it preinstalled)

vim just works

scp just works

All my X11 apps just work

All the scripts and little tools I've built up over the years just work (no fighting with namespaces when you switch to root or other weird Android nonsense.)

All my dev tools just work (and you might say "well why would I ever want that on a phone? Because when you find a bug in the OS or an app and you're sitting on transit you can fix it right then and there. No making mental notes, no filling out issues, just slow continuous improvement. Something these mobile OSes will never have.)

Desktop Firefox just works (even without touchscreen mode it's usable. With xinput2 enabled it has nice gesture support.)

Want something to run in the background? Just open an Xterm window, run it, and minimize it. Want it to start on boot? Add it to the default runlevel or your X session just like you would on any other computer.

There's absolutely no reason for any of the mobile nonsense (there arguably never was) other than money for the mobile OS vendors.
Is there anything that you’d like to see that these venerable pubnix systems don’t provide? I’m considering setting one up for the community.
There are 2 parts to tax returns in the US: the Federal File and the State File (though, not all states require you to file taxes). With FreeTaxUSA The Federal File is always free. The State File is $15 unless you make under a certain amount and use the IRS link to get to the website.

This IRS link issue is something I've noticed with TurboTax and TaxSlayer in the past. They hide their free file (even the Federal File) from users unless they use the IRS link.
Which Z-wave hubs can I trust to still be working in the future? Is there some z-wave card or other hardware plugin I can DIY add one of my home machines, along with software to control and monitor. In 2016 my Staples Connect z-wave hub became a brick when Staples shut down that department. Now my Samsung 2019 z-wave hub is also abandoned by Samsung.
My understanding of the situation on the ground might be a bit out of date then, a lot of my information about Dubai comes from pre-pandemic.
Yeah, this is a more nuanced critique that could definitely have teeth.

That said, I'm kind of skeptical that it's really true that shareholders are keeping the whole enterprise afloat? Here I admit I haven't delved deep into their financials, but isn't a big part of their operating loss related to huge R&D spend for self-driving plays, outsized engineering dev teams that might eventually be reduced as the app stabilizes, etc.? It seems like riders have been willing to shell out a lot more money for the experience, which I would imagine leaves plenty of margin. They are essentially a global taxi company with good market position and value added. It seems hard to believe there is no way to operate that company profitably, even if they're not currently achieving it. It's not like they're being strongly pressured to reach profitability either, though, so this isn't a particularly fair litmus test as to whether they're capable.

Anyway, you raise a good point that it -could- be true the Uber model is fundamentally unsustainable. I was reacting some of the hotter revisionist takes you see, where Uber was never a good idea, offers no value over a normal Taxi, is a big brogrammer pyramid scheme, etc.
their application seems pretty simple to fill out (in some cases requiring less than 100 words of description) unlike YC app so I assume they want to funnel interest from as many founders as possible before deciding which apps to pick to fund.
UAE is a fast growing international hub. Nobody is terrified. No more than people are terrified of traveling to germany because tourists get arrested for silly nonsense like a nazi salute or thailand because tourists get arrested insulting the royals or indonesia because tourists get arrested for drugs.

Not saying I agree with anyone getting arrested for silly nonsense. But for 99% of the travelers, it doesn't matter.
Hopefully these news stories will help educate people about the risks involved with travel to certain countries.
My point was that OS dispatchers don't spend time working out how long things will take to compute, to allocate resources (such as CPU time) properly into the future; what they do instead is they just put the stuff to compute into a dispatch queue and go from there. Then if it's a novel thing or million times repeated thing doesn't really matter.

BTW, one indication that Scrum is bad is that nobody is doing its analogue (syncing everybody once a day?) in computing. Sane project management practices should be universal, and should also work for operating system schedulers.
Hey, so, TurboTax has a 0% chance of correctly importing my W2s & stock transactions; so, it's not like I even get that. This was my last year of using TTax — if I'd known about FreeTaxUSA, I would've hopped.
>I can't even imagine doing taxes on mobile....

It's not that bad. I have this great app that's only $30

/s
The NexDocks are the shell you asked for, not the computer. Although they're marketing as being for smartphones, they should work with anything that supports USB 3.2 with DisplayPort.
Which also plays a major role in Metal Gear Solid V (and MGS: Peacewalker)
I don't understand what is it you call "AGPS lockdown"

3GPP is usually used in the context of AGPS to help GPS get a lock, by using the ID of the tower your 3GPP UE is connected to. There is one such tower, and there is simply no way to hide it. It is a technical requirement for your carrier to have an approximate location of your equipment. Even if they wished they didn't have it, they would still need it.

A phone doesn't have its GPS turned on permanently, because it eats a lot of battery, and sure some carriers and some OEMs have some backdoors (Sprint last I've seen) to request a GPS position, though AFAIK it can't be enabled in most cases. Is this what you're talking about? As far as I know, taking a "stupid" modem (Say an exynos one), and putting a custom ROM should make you safe from it, because from what I've seen, those backdoors are done in Samsung Android framework

If your question is about E911 (which is lockdown to... well... 911 calls), can't say that I know much about it, but I think what I said on the previous point still applies. On a dumb modem

BTW, PinePhone's modem being a Qualcomm, it is very "smart", and does a lot of things behind Application Processor's back. A Mediatek, or better an Exynos modem is much better to that regard, and would be preferable. (but there is no pinephone on non-qc modem)