skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech. optimism is predatory on the generations that follow if they turn out to not happen.

And I don't know how many cameras on the back of your iPhone before you realize it still only takes 2D photos?

I think you need to understand the "at scale" I added everywhere. All the solutions you googled are by companies that can make it work in a prototype... but when they try to replace dead trees they all fail...
Mainstream outlets will often cite time constraints as an excuse for why they’re failing to tackle crucial stories. But is it possible that maybe their silence is by design? After all, in 2021, they apparently had ample time to report on the murder investigation for a travel blogger, gossip about Melania Trump, and a maskless Rudy Giuliani leaving a New Year’s Eve party.

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Well, perhaps there is a wide-reaching corporate conspiracy to peddle pablum…

…or pablum is what people actually want to consume. That is what gets clicks and eyeballs. That’s what’s exciting, that’s what’s fun, that’s what is easy to understand. Is, I dunno, the LIBOR scandal vastly more important than that what outfit Melania Trump wore? Sure is! Does anybody really want to sit through an article or show about the subtle manipulation of inter-bank interest rates? Hell no!

I am sorry, there is and has been an abundance of erudite, in-depth reportage out there covering just about anything, and people’s revealed preference is to care a lot about Kanye. I am sure there is some incentivizing to bow to the corporate masters, but the day-to-day decisions in the media are much more about “what’s going to sell to the cheap seats?”
Simple answer, require users to login to view information then apply captchas and a series of bans with increasing durations when they act like a scraper rather than a human. LinkedIn already does the behavior detection, captchas, and bans.
I think this was partly driven by Firefox, but Ubuntumate is certainly shipping with flatpak and another package manager (maybe appimage, I lose track).
They were completely separate corporate entities. Lear was an aviation electronics company and Bill Lear wanted it to become an aircraft company but the board would not agree.

Bill Lear then sold his interest in Lear the aviation electronics company to Siegler, which had started as an HVAC company but had expanded into other areas including electronics, and the two merged giving Lear Siegler. The management of the new merged company was almost all from Siegler.

Bill Lear then started Lear the aircraft company.
Been very happy with my system76 galago pro 4 for a few years now, would recommend and will buy from them again.
And since much reporting is now “someone on Twitter posted this” it becomes an ouroboros.
False choice.

What we can do put process in the mix.

The available solution coupled with time tested, production proven ways and means is about as good as we can get. And that is not very good, but it is livable and people value that a whole lot more than is given credit for.

Bad things are gonna happen no matter what, right?

Humans doing the messy human works are important. It ain't cheap. Never was, and for sure isn't now. But when we do that work, people do get options and overall harm is reduced, but more importantly, consent, acceptance, compliance all go up.
This also runs into an issue of scale. AAA games for live service games certainly do have automated testing for some core features like networking or certain simulations. But that kind of testing for an indie title would be overkill unless you're making a game like Factorio (a near deterministic game heavily relying on simulation). It's really hard to unit test "fun" after all.

There isn't as much benefit for a small platformer to test their jump height or physical interaction with the environment, and then change all tests whenever they decide that they need to adjust that height. On the contrary, some beloved glitches/exploits have come from allowing those weird interactions to exist.
How do you do anything front end related without a browser with inspect element/dev tools?
What's Z-axis on this tape? is it thickness?
For example, you could also make a compiler compile certain other software incorrectly in order to introduce exploitable vulnerabilities in the binaries. When I was working on convincing people of the importance of reproducible builds, I used to use an example where changing a single bit in the binary could introduce a fencepost error by changing a conditional branch operation into a different conditional branch operation. If the conditional branch related to overwriting memory and incrementing pointers (for example), that could make the resulting binary exploitable even though there was no fencepost error in the original source code.

(My examples on x86 involved changing JGE to JG, or JL to JLE, corresponding to changing >= to >, and < to <=, in loop conditions.)

Combining this with the trusting trust attack, you could have a self-perpetuating bug in the compiler plus a bugdoor in other software. The pattern match for the other software does not necessarily have to be super-specific in that case.

I would definitely agree that this wouldn't survive that many generations of software evolution without active intervention. It definitely wouldn't survive a change of programming language or target machine architecture, for example.
Vanguard does. They make recommendations about whom you should vote for, but vote you do.
They often actually do, vanguard sends me proxy statements now and then which I deign to ignore.
Ironically, you can buy the 14-inch M1 MBP with no touchbar... and you can buy the M1 Air with no touchbar... it's only the 13-inch MBP with that god awful invention. I'm sticking with the M1 Air for now specifically for that reason.
One example is whenever a server isn’t working and I need to see if the connection problem is specific to my machine or LAN, I pop into SDF and ping it from there.

It’s basically a Swiss army knife. You get email, webspace, you can use it as an anonymizing SSH hop, IRC, they have a little proprietary chat system, and all kinds of other tools and systems.

The lifetime membership is so cheap it’s hard to believe it’s real.
My anecdotal experience with the people I meet and talk with fall into two very clear buckets: those that read books and those that don't.

I've been able to predict with 100% accuracy so far (N=12) which bucket a person falls into solely based on if the person regurgitates mainstream narratives uncritically, regardless of political party. Having a discussion with someone that has additional information external to the narrative seems to be in short supply and stands out, probably more than it should.

I'm curious if anyone else on HN has experienced similar and/or can provide some further insight to this phenomena. Thanks!
In what sense? He is alive, still active in politics, his political advocacy group is still active...
Day 778 of March 2020; pandemic still trucking.
This article would make more sense if it had the result of a simulation of a workload showing how much time was lost to interrupt latency and how much processor time could be saved by a different technique.
Nah, they are locked in mortal combat with the trilateral commission.
Yes, in plane (XY), it is many orders of magnitude more resistive than out of plane (Z-axis).
Could you explain what this comment means? It doesn’t make sense. ESL?
"doesn't claim to allow free speech"

They have been running a lot of PR campaigns about how modern they are.
Mirror alignment is measured using a laser reflected off the mirror segments into an interferometer.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/aligning-the-prima...
I'm curious, do you have any examples?
You're not in some minority, that's a new phone every three years and is in line with the market. Also, who are you buying from that is supporting their software for that long? I think I've gotten maybe 2 years of updates if in lucky with anyone but Google. So you've admitted you're upgrading because of software features. This is the entire issue. I still play triple A games at 1440p 144hz on a 10 year old PC with a 2700k and see no reason to upgrade because of software. Infact, my computer doesn't support windows 11 and that's a blessing imo. My laptop is a t440p which is almost 10 years old and I've never needed to upgrade because of software. I run Windows 10 fine and arch even better. I can play some games and stream the rest. The planned obsolescence of cell phones is not about hardware, it's about software and advertising. Nobody should need to have a new phone every two years.
I actually don't share your experience. My Linux machines are all more reliable than the best smartphones I've had. Flagship Android phones have been the worst in my experience, most can't make it a week without crashing, not to mention the awful battery life. Maybe it's because I know to be picky about PC hardware and don't run things like Chrome.

>I don't want a browser that's described as just "usable".

I have to wonder what exactly you do want then, maybe a parade?

I get it though. You don't want the responsibility of configuring your device. That's fine, most people don't. This next thing you said really gets me though:

> I've never been in a position where trying to fix the underlying OS was required nor could I picture it being something worth time I'd have to trade away from my family.

You've been conditioned to feel helpless here. You've been told you can't fix things so you accept that they're broken and don't think about it. That's one reaction and in this situation it's probably healthier. For me it's like living in a house with crooked picture frames and the police showing up if you try to straiten them. It's a little upsetting for people to act like that's reasonable or ok.
> there's for a fact places in the world today, hosts of a functional 21st century economy, where you feel like royalty just for being outside.

Not trying to sound like a dick - can you name some of them you know of? Looking to get a good amount of traveling in in the near future
I've seen the same thing. Apparently 33% of people haven't read a book since high school and 42% haven't read a book since college. It's shocking statistics.

I myself had a protracted dry spell of book reading but picked it up again about 5 years ago and noticed that it really turned my brain "on" so to speak. My vocabulary increased, but I also felt I was able to store and retrieve information from my brain much quicker.
Maybe people do not want to use vim on their phones? This is like complaining that your laptop can't run mainframe applications. I guess if you are extremely attached to "your good old way" of doing things, sure, but that's such a limited way to judge platforms. It just amount to not wanting anything to change in your workflow... ever which is okay but not a very good reason to say that "there's no reason for any of the mobile stuff and there arguably never was" when the immense majority of people do not share the same habits.
Fair enough. You do you. Freedom to choose can be a good thing. It won’t scale though. You need one unifying, well-made, default experience for that.
1) I think Elon Musk's angle on Twitter spam is rather different than ours. Look at replies under his tweets.

2) I am not an ML engineer, but still a software engineer and in my opinion the problem of self driving cars is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the problem of Internet spam. Maybe even three orders of magnitude.

3) We actually know that the problem of spam is successfuly solved by Google. When was the last time you saw a spam message in Gmail? I am seeing them in my inbox approximately once a month. There are about 8 messages in my spam folder per day, so it is about 0.4% false negatives. This is a great result.

4) Social networks are not interested in fighting spam. It just will make their metrics worse. All they need is to keep it at moderately acceptable level, so users won't flee in bunches.
Could these agencies enumerate some phone models / sw versions that are vulnerable to Pegasus and just blast email the govt folks "if you got one of these it's vulnerable, upgrade to new hardware or software { list of phones without known vulnerabilities here }"?
I guess it's an Intel iGPU. Radeon it's worse than Nouveau, the first one depends on
semi free drivers... with non-free firmware.
You many be surprised, but ball pens or even pencils are not really low-tech products. Their production needs precision equipment and cutting-edge supply chain. You can´t make a pencil in your basement.

side note: "caran d'ache" actually means pencil in Russian which in turn borrowed the name from Turkic, where cara(n) means black and ache is stone. The company is Swiss, but it was set up by a Russian cartoonist that fled the 1917 revolution, worked in Paris and settled in Switzerland inbetween the world wars.
Don't forget Reddit and Hacker News
> the Telecommunications Act signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996, which 72% of the public didn’t even know about and no one voted on.

A law passed by Congress but no one voted on it? Huh?
It would be interesting to somehow record your personal activity and find out what your personal numbers are.
The only people that I know of that still get the majority of their news from TV is people of my parents generation, who are in their 70s. I’m in my 50s and none of my acquaintances of a similar age watch broadcast TV, or even use social media.
Once the question turns into star systems instead of asteroids, the answer is: lift hydrogen out of stars and transmute it into lithium as needed. Resources are heterogeneous only for civilizations significantly below level of 2 on the Kardashev's scale. Above it's all just matter-energy.
zgrep does stream directly from gzip into grep.

You can see that here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/tree/zgrep.in?id=...

It's also mentioned in one of the few comments in zgrep: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/tree/zgrep.in?id=...

> we use stdin to pass the gzip output to grep

zgrep does create a temporary directory to store the grep search pattern, but only if the pattern is passed via `zgrep -f`, and only if the pattern passed in is not a regular file (i.e. `zgrep -f <(echo "foo") some_file.gz` would create a temporary file with the contents "foo", not with the contents of some_file.gz, and `zgrep -f pattern_file search_file.gz` would not create any temporary file)
While I love this write up, this quote caught my eye:

> This is not something I'd recommend unless you're truly dedicated to open source and want to be early to the first generation of open source telephony.

The OpenMoko was the first generation of open source telephony :)

I’d wager we’re in the second now. I could almost argue the Nokia N9 was the progenitor of that too, but that’s a much longer bow to draw haha
As someone who wanted to file taxes in Oregon this year without using anybody else's software, I was completely appalled by how inaccessible a system that literally every working American will have to interact with at some point is. They even got rid of the "Free Fillable Forms" option, so if you wanted to file and do your own taxes for yourself, you have to do the paper forms.

It's 2022, and I can't submit my government mandated math homework electronically as a private citizen. That should piss an incredible number of people off, but nobody ever seems to think about it.
It is brittle but an evil compiler can account for that by attempting to compile the hacked program and falling back to real compilation if it gets a compilation error. It could even try downloading an update and try recompiling, but this introduces other ways it can get caught.
It's conductive only in the z-axis. So you can, for example, tape components to your circuitboard instead of having to solder tiny pieces.
> More often than not, it's a cooperating distributed net of hundreds of bots, coming from multiple AWS, Azure, and GCP addresses.

those are only the low-effort/cheap ones, the more advanced scraping makes use of residential proxies (peoples' pwned home routers, or where they've installed shady VPN software on their PC that turns them into a proxy) to appear to come from legitimate residential last mile broadband netblocks belonging to comcast, verizon, etc.

google "residential proxies for sale" for the tip of an iceberg of a bunch of shady grey market shit.
The thing i don't get is the statement "Attack Vector Network" in the advisory as well at the statement it allows a remote attacker to write files.

I don't understand the bar to be called a Network Attack Vector. Surely there's more to this than asking the user to run shell commands right?
There of course is a third way. Russian people toppling their own government, bringing an end to the command structure and thus the war.

Russians should take inspiration from Sri Lanka. They are on the streets everyday until the government is toppled.
Gravity wells are where most of the resources are. For example, Earth outmasses the asteroid belt by a factor of over 1,000.
The Seek app is one of those things that you can show people and they think it is magic, even in this day and age. I got my mom and my grandma using it!
100% why I prefer avoiding languages that fall into the OO+Inheritance trap, if I can help it.
If they were "below market", wouldn't founders... go get the market rate from someone else?
Correct, Vanguard votes on the underlying assets of an index fund, not individual (or other) investors. You do get to vote if you own shares of individual companies.
Show HN: RSS Feed Discovery Engine
It accepts urls and tries to find a feed for it. Most of the work is O(1). Scratches a personal itch.
Musk: “complexity and cost of a car is greater than that of a humanoid robot”
Scary, isn't it. I went on a date once with a regurgiator. Made me feel like I was talking to a drone that takes all direction from queen bee T.V.. We're living in science fiction territory now.
I don’t feel sorry for them. They are hard at work building a surveillance state and (attempting to) ban end-to-end encryption.

I actually see this as a good thing. Getting a taste of their own medicine.
If you’re US based, get a diagnosis and take FMLA leave. It’s not going to get better by doing the same things you’re doing right now, so do something better for a bit.

Use the time to invest in yourself. Pick up a new hobby (sailing worked for me). Get therapy. Exercise and stop staring at a screen for 8-12 hours a day.

One of the best pieces of advice a friend gave me last year was “Right now forget about your $job. The only job you have right now is to get well. That’s your full time job. Go play video games and don’t feel guilty”
I've done state taxes by hand in 5 different states, including nonresident taxes. All of them go through the same basic process: copy your AGI from the federal form, adjust for local purposes (which for me meant running my finger down the list of adjustments in the instructions and going "nothing applies"), compute taxes, add in the use tax, and you're down. If you've got multistate tax issues (whether nonresidency or part-year), things get spicy because you have to allocate income across the different states.

And even then, the only difficulty I had was doing CA nonresident taxes, because it turns out that there's a weird collision with CA and a few other states for nonresident taxes, the other one being the state I lived in at the time. And CA's instructions doesn't tell you about needing the other form unless you read the instructions for that form in particular.
> Best way to show you are a motivated, quick study is by being a motivated, quick study.

It's hard to get generalized knowledge being a quick study, it's a lot easier to get specific knowledge to work on an actual issue being a motivated, quick study. So if that's really what you're looking for, you've got to be OK with using a search engine and manual pages during the interview.
> I didn’t get a family size discount on my home

You do though. The cost of kitchen for a couple without kids, and one for a family of 5 is roughly the same. You might have more square footage overall for house, with more people, but the construction costs are concentrated on the shared spaces like kitchens or even things like living living rooms where square footage will scale sub-linearly with the number of people in the household.
Super interesting! A very small form-factor dual-channel memory module would be so good to have!

Should be very easy to reverse engineer. I hope Dell keeps up this form factor, I hope it gets reverse engineered, and I hope eventually it gets standardized. This would be a huge win, could really help free us from so many mobile systems soldering down ram, which is in part due to cost but also in part due to dual SODIMMS being pretty darned tootin big!
Hi dang,
I’ll read the guidelines and try to adhere to them carefully. That said, I’m not having much luck with other users being charitable in discussions, and that to behavior (being charitable) is something I’d like to mutually benefit both myself and others; if there is a way to be more approachable or clear I’d like to know.
Thanks for responding to me, and I also like your bio.
I think tension drives learning. :)
Ah my old nemesis, you just had to reboot the machine to unfuck it lol
Bots are an incredibly large source of traffic on the non-profit academic cultural heritage site I work on. It gets very little human traffic compared to a successful for-profit site.

But the bots on my site -- at least the obvious ones that lead me to say they are a large source of traffic -- are all well-behaved, with good clear user-agents, and they respect robots.txt, so I could keep them out if I wanted.

I haven't wanted because, why? I have modified the robots.txt to keep the bots out of some mindless loops trying every combination of search criteria to access a combinatorial expansion of every possible search results page. That was doing neither of us any good, was exceeding the capacity of our papertrail plan (which is what brought it to our attention) -- and every actual data page is available in a sitemap that is available to them if they want it, they don't need to tree-search every possible search results page!

In some cases I've done extra work to change URL patterns so I could keep them out of such useless things with a robots.txt more easily, without banning them altogether. Because... why not? The more exposure the better, all our info is public. We like our pretty good organic Google SEO, and while I don't think anyone else is seriously competing with google, I don't want to privilege google and block them out either.
I also use a qotom box for my main router. It runs arch and is 100% automated via Ansible. I have recently taken the deep dive into Nix and installed nixos on my main laptop. I have much to learn but am considering things like replacing the router with Nixos now too.

Thanks for the links!
This was our experience with car count data which we sold to most of the sophisticated quant funds a few years back. We sold 'raw counts' and our own 'derived counts' that took into account cloud cover etc and was produced by our data science team. The quant funds completely disregarded our derived counts as useless.
Sure but then you need a replacement that can do equivalent things (so for vim, notepad would be enough, but iOS doesn't even come with a text editor. You have notes but that only edits files in your mailbox. You can install an app but the app is stuck in its own sandbox etc.) I get the "you should be flexible" but being completely unable to do entire classes of tasks requires more than being flexible about your workflow.

Most importantly: all these problems are entirely artificial. There's no actual limitation that creates them, just smartphone vendors declaring "things must be painful."