skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. The successful communication platforms are ones that are opt-in, meaning you can't message or talk to someone unless you give their consent; and

Not particularly true in the rest of the world, for instance in Europe as many have pointed out in other threads. The SMS text messages work well here, and good data protection laws/regulations ensure that there is virtually no spam or phishing. This is not a problem with the platform, but with the lack of regulation in the industry.
Not anymore than any other technology he disparages: it's proprietary and steals your information, which is all likely true. But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software? Isn't that his entire shtick? High minded ideals are great and all but at the end of the day the software needs to work and on that day it did not...
The Mac Studio is an M1 Mac, so you might want to rephrase that part.
I think the hot take culture war approach to the issue reduces the pressure for transparency, since the hot take generators act as if they have everything they need to decide exactly what to think without any further data.

My guess is that the books were banned for bad reasons, but my guesses aren't of much value without verification.
Who is treating it like any sort of crime?
The CIA has more effective ways of flipping the bird to the GRU than futzing with Google Earth/maps.
Windows beats Unix variants by at least 10:1 on local privilege escalation bugs.
This is getting pretty close to the "War Of Northern Aggression" nonsense that's peddled throughout the United States South.
Vote.

We need leaders who put it at the top priority and who will bring change, not talk, to our government. If the current leaders won't do it, elect in new ones. This is true at all scales of government, from your local school boards and city councils all the way up to congress and presidential elections. Make politicians know that this issue will drive re-election possibilities for the foreseeable future.

My other take on it is to de-normalize air travel. But honestly that seems even harder to do - convincing congress to change their act seems easier than convincing the business world to stop flying to meet each other.
For fucks sake. This page is unreadable. Stop hijacking that danged scrollwheel.
Quick, pick which amoral technofeudal lord you want to serve.
Even wine-likers would be able to tell, but the vast majority of people don't know much about any given niche, by definition. It's like saying "80% of people surveyed couldn't tell the difference between an AE86 and an AE85 just by driving them". Duh but the difference is there and not hard to spot if you know what you're looking for. We need to stop conflating general unfamiliarity with impossibility to distinguish.
> No country likes itself to be split apart

Indeed. But some countries handle independence movements with more grace than others. It's perfectly legitimate for a region to ask for independence. If the host nation is graceful, and (for example) allows independence referendums, a civil war becomes much less likely.

The host nation always fights back; but passing ten-year imprisonment sentences on the leaders of the secessionists isn't very graceful. Sending paramilitaries to beat up prrotestors and voters isn't graceful at all. A little more "graceful" is to resort to dirty tricks; Alex Salmond, former leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, was dragged into court on trumped-up sexual harrassment charges.
This is a big problem. But one problem which prevents implementing correct solution is that even very educated people (like ones posting comments here) cannot classify 3 different “spam”: fraud/phising SMS/calls/emails, spam sms/calls/emails, and legitimate marketing and messages (like call from Grubhub delivery). Why do we need this? Because each of these classes of unwanted communication require a different solution.

And all these network providers are just not capable or not willing to spend any effort to solve this problem.

For example, T-Mobile is so bad that even a valid 2fa SMS messages are blocked.

On the other hand, AT&T allows even so obvious scam goes thru.
I always thought downpours were just a movie special effect; Not real.

I stood in awe when I went to Florida.
This is why we don’t have such a receptacle by the mailboxes. It goes in everyone’s home recycling and is dealt with by the ordinary recycling pick-up.
> then went to a URL 'de-shortener' service

To get the last URL in a redirect chain with `curl`:

curl --silent --location --output /dev/null --write-out '%{url_effective}' 'URL HERE'
Same. Please, teach us.
The wealth transfer has been to the passengers though, as this article points out repeatedly Uber isn't earning money.
> principal game engine engineer on The Witness

Is that true? He is listed in the credits under "Additional contributions in programming by", and in his blog posts about the "Walk Monster" problem, his role sounds like that of an independent contractor brought on late in the project.
2 things here: 1. use a headphone, it is easier, it allows you to walk safer and with a better body posture and 2. my apology for such an incident is "it will not happen again, 'cause I am leaving". I understand and obey safety rules, but not random rules companies can pull any moment in time.
Did you just compare the $700 Mini to a $140 ECS Liva or some $200 HP or Asus Chromebox?
USA to Germany, same thing. Lots of scammer calls throughout the week until my US phone provider told me they wouldn't support me in Europe anymore and I had to switch over.

I actually miss trolling "Jeff from the IRS" every few days.
This thread has started with a problem of cheating in online games (like head-aiming bots in first-person shooters) and (non-free) anti-cheating software as a solution to that (not ideal, but closing that gap somewhat). GGP pointed out it's "a social problem" and suggested we shouldn't attack it with technology (anti-cheating software). I still stand unconvinced with regards to that.

Otherwise, I had been denied boarding in the Covid era because the software had had a bug, so I tend to generally agree with your sentiment that the technology has too much control over my life already.
You don't need to be an oppressive regime to get google maps to hide stuff.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-blur-your-house-in-googles-str...
There was an article about the decline of brain size/etc yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048591

How did I know we'd get this article today? Am I clairvoyant? So many people in denial about aging.
my great grandmother was kicking ass in cardgames and remembered a lot about the things she used in her life. was harder to get new info to stick. took a few more repetitions, but you could see her mind was processing a lot more than mine was. she was a magnificant woman. she turned 101
Similar experience, lived in both Seattle and Portland. There is a lot to like about the Pacific Northwest and I loved living there the first few years. But as the years passed I got a bit more depressed.

Had to pay a lot more to move to California, but the sunshine tax has been worth it for me.
Good point, though I’d argue more people use two screens on a MacBook than an iMac as a screen, since it already provides a computer.
People come up with statistics and convince themselves, but if you live in Seattle you know. It drizzles almost every day except during the summer
I'm a big-time 'less is more' advocate. Please do not mess with my inputs unless you are making a video game, and even then...

To any designers out there, really ask yourself if you can engineer better scrolling than what is built into our devices already. Maybe 10 years ago you could have and it would be easy, but web browsers on every platform are pretty good right now in terms of handling our inputs.
> legitimate marketing

We don't typically worry about pathological NULL sets
Completely disagree. Tiktok, Instagram, and Snap are fundamentally different platforms.
Its good in chrome on android.
The "small gap" here is an order of magnitude difference between theoretical and practical performance.
Do you really want to be forced to declare to the whole world the details of your financial life, every year? Not just what you earn but deductions such as what you gave to charity? I don't think most Americans would support this.
Your definition of a life 'unwasted' is no more or less correct than the article author's or anyone else's.

Perhaps the author spends their time running, walking, swimming, cooking, and jacking in to the three-tv-experience. You wouldn't know, but you judge nonetheless.
> In recent weeks, the policy can even be seen as indirectly subsidizing an invasion.

That seems a bit farfetched. They don't run on natural gas.
Ludwig: A toolbox to train and test deep learning models without code
> Feel free to point out exactly which argument you feel was ignored.

The retroactive renaming of speed+versions. I'm not talking about the Mac.

> If you pick up a USB3.1 device you know beforehand it won't support SuperSpeed+ 2x or 4x.

My whole argument is that this confusion wouldn't be an issue if the USB Consortium had reserved USB 3.1 for 10 Gb/sec speeds exclusively. In other words, this:

3.0: 5 Gb/s "SuperSpeed"
3.1: 10 Gb/s "SuperSpeed+"
3.2: 20 Gb/s "SuperSpeed++"

That, and that alone (with none of the "Gen" nonsense) would avoid confusion. Then, if I pick up a USB 3.1 device, I would know it's 10 Gb/sec "SuperSpeed+" without having to use a stupid "generation" number. But no, the USB Consortium decided to deprecate 3.0 and 3.1 because all new devices are "3.2 Gen whatever". That's confusion.
Welcome to human nature.
One of the reasons anyone who thinks socialism is a realistic strategy just is't with reality.
Here’s how I feel about this:

You can write all of the tests, you can get all of the audits, but there’s nothing that’s going to stop a 13-year old polish kid from mucking about in the guts of your tech. Security isn’t a promise you can make in absolutes, at some point you have to ship and you hope that you did everything well enough that there’s no low-hanging fruit.

There’s no such thing as a secure system, only systems which are more expensive to compromise.
I don't think it's as common in 2022, but in the early 2000s to probably 2015, health club memberships were generally a 1 year contract meaning you were on the hook for a year. You can't just cancel. There were always month-to-month plans but they are usually a few more dollars ($10-$20) a month, but people are bozos and sign on the dotted line.
> Ideally in a free market we would be able to find a competitor and congregate there instead but since this isn't a free market and tragedy of the commons is a thing were stuck with twitter being a monopoly on public political discourse.

Twitter isn't a monopoly, though: there's all kinds of other social media services available, as well as other places where "public political discourse" occur.

Free speech doesn't mean you're entitled to your preferred choice of venue. I recall when I was a kid, the local Nazi didn't get a prime time spot on local TV, though I'm sure he would have wanted one. He had to make due with a public access slot that very few (if any) people would watch.

That same Nazi is also the reason passwords were implemented on the university computer clusters, because he was caught using them without permission (as a non-student) to print neonazi flyers.
Just my experience as an occasional visitor to BCN, lots of people will answer in Catalan when you talk to them in Spanish to make a point, but then in the tourist areas everyone speaks English. Not BS, maybe an isolated experience but that was my experience over there (and I only visited tourist-y spots, so there's a strong bias ofc). I'm not saying they don't know how to speak Spanish, I'm saying many people won't to make a point.
> Checked the first one (kagi.com) and on the first page they make requests to both cloudflare.net and duckduckgo.com

Care to explain what exactly you saw as I am curious (Kagi dev here, and no, we don't make such requests - likely to be your browser extensions).
That sounds like a fun project! :-)

If you're doing it again next year, maybe you could do some measured shots with lookup table and compare to the existing system? Might help find the error ?
Post on Hacker News or Twitter for customer support.
>> Hardly anyone owns an umbrella in seattle for a reason.

Umbrellas are for people in cities without real weather. They only work for vertical rain. The pacific northwest often gets rain+wind, which defeats umbrellas. It is also a fashion thing. Ever since GorTex became cheap, everyone wants to look like they climb mountains every weekend. A bright gortex jacket is far more cool than a folding umbrella.
I've lived in four of the top 10 "most rainy" cities on the list. They way it normally happens in all of them is that you'll have a bunch of sunny days, then a day where you might get anywhere from 0.5-inch to 8+ inches of rain. Especially in the spring and summer. Four days ago it rained 2.5 inches in one day. This week it's all sunny.
Нет, но я понимаю что сейчас есть большее зло.

I'd much rather have some regulation than no regulation at all. It doesn't have to be one of the extremes.
If there is no conclusion then you are just un-productively saying "modern software sucks".

My point is, if the claim is that modern software is bad, what do they offer as the solution to that?

> The conclusion”, if you need one, is that people saying that more performance is impossible or impractical as a knee-jerk response are often wrong.

This is barely a statement. I've never heard "performance is impossible" from anyone, and it's amusing you would accuse me of a strawman and then introduce one like this.
It was leading to harassment re: the complaint linked in the other comment.
The string-based representation of Windows ACLs is more complex than Linux ACLs - because it's a more complex and powerful system.

While your last paragraph is technically true, ACLs can also be applied on files from network shares.

And of course (just as on Linux), even on single, non-networked machines, only very technical users will realistically be able to access files they are not authorised for.
> so long as that behaviour doesn't directly impact others

I'm not sure how one person being misinformed directly harms another. Can you elaborate? Surely the misinformed person would have to act to directly harm another person, which is already covered by existing laws I imagine.
Tell me you know nothing of colonization without telling me you know nothing about colonization. Massive massacres of unarmed people across the entire expanse of the empire, raping of children ‘round the world, deliberately slow torture as punishment before death, the whole gamut of sick and depraved actions, every bit as cruel and barbaric as anything you can claim against the aborigine, carried out by your “rescuing” white saviour-invaders. Your justification for destroying the aboriginal culture is built on a mountain of pain and torture and your own abysmal ignorance of history.
You could probably make something like this with a Raspberry Pi or media center. However you would have trouble with HDCP protected content. The TVs have a chip that decrypts the content from the provider (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc...) Without a valid HDCP key you can't composite the two video streams to make your PIP. So you are essentially stuck with what your TV can do unless you license an HDCP key for your device.

Luckily there are HDMI switches out there that can do this for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Zettaguard-Wireless-Switcher-Switches...
don't know how it compares to London, though that's often the "twin city" in these arguments
Think hard about this question now and start working on reducing your reliance on any such freely registered online account. That goes a hundredfold for the email account you use as a recovery address.
SSH tunnel with passwords disabled; use ed25519 keys. Or wireguard if you are feeling adventurous
Have you ever heard of MLMs? Of which there are thousands of examples around the world? Herbalife, Forever Living Products, Amway, etc.

All based on there being a large chunk of people[1] that don't really understand how money works.

[1] I'd put that number based on anecdata, at least at around 20-30% of the population.
Show HN: I made a Firefox extension to make using AWS SSO easier
I guess I'm someone who does not use ad blockers (and never have). To me, it simply feels wrong. I do pay for Youtube premium. And I do have subscriptions for some media sites (NY TImes, Economist.)

I don't find ads all that bad. But I will avoid sites that go overboard.

I also take care to report spam messages in my email. And I ignore phone calls from anyone I don't know.

So I guess I straddle the line between the two people you describe.
I've worked for startups and for very large companies. I've also consulted for both, and dealt with executives and decision-makers in both spaces. And, respectfully, three whole years at one job is a drop in the bucket in terms of experiential breadth and making sweeping claims to the universe of corporate work from it is unwise. "Drones" "drones" "drones" is just look-down-your-nose silliness and while I am not a cheerleader for tech certs generally, I have a few in my background, and there's significant value both personally in the effort to better oneself and in the practical, learn-what-to-learn you can derive from them. (AWS certifications, for example, are pretty significant in terms of what-you-have-to-know when you get past Associate.) Even aside from that, there are tons of medium and large companies actively and consistently working to provide opportunities because internal transfers are (usually) cheaper and no less likely to succeed at new and more complex roles than hiring externally. Heck, even in places where that isn't necessarily a company focus, I've seen reading groups, SIGs, etc. form just because people want to learn new stuff. Tale as old as time.

One job, three years. Perhaps you had a bad job. But try this one on, too: perhaps you lacked the wisdom to recognize opportunities where they appeared, and you're better at it now.
An adjacent comment just responded with what I was gonna type.

> … All that's being pointed out here is that it can't both be the case that there are no relevant differences between men and women and also that a phrase like "women and children" is useful. You have to pick one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070960
> The only customers that would pay are ones that do it for moral purposes, at which point your business selling GPL software isn't a business anymore, but something that receives charitable donations.

> Nevertheless, more than 6000 of these individuals choose to help fund the project to the tune of between $150k and $210k a year.

How is this not covered by the posters comment about it not being a business but a charity if you rely on people paying more than they need to?
Does this make your device 'follow' that URL?

As someone who is responsible for abuse reports, one of the things I like about services such as hybrid-analysis, joe's sandbox, urlscan.io etc is that I can get some info about a link without having to worry about my local computer or maintain a sandbox.

Also, a lot of sketch URLs belong to 'booters' and exist only to collect the IP address of whatever connects to them so someone can ddos it later.
>An average 30 year old who is not doing sports will not lose muscle mass by itself.

>An average 50 year old will lose 1% per year or so.

Sure, but the average is what it is because most people barely exercise, especially when they're older. If everyone lived a much more active life with more strenuous exercise, the average would look completely different.
There is a theory that there were two competing early Christian factions: one, led by Jesus’s brother (or kin), viewed the movement as a continuation of Judaism; the other following the vision of Paul who wanted to proselytize the gentiles. The theory goes Paul made the religion decidedly not Jewish to increase its appeal. I guess adult males did not want to get circumcised. Paul’s Hellenized vision was clearly the one that won out in this scenario.

I couldn’t tell you how widely accepted this theory is however (or the motivations of its progenitor). Biblical studies seems like an area where the orthodoxy is constantly shifting.
The problem is that the version of the standard is conflated with the version of the port. Here is a better system:

1) The standard has a version number. I would have suggested semver, except that USB will always be backwards compatible within the same physical port, so there's no need for separate major/minor versions. We can just use an incrementing number 1,2,3 etc.

2) The standard gives each physical port layout a name, eg. A, B, C. Port layouts can be added/removed in new versions of the standard.

3) The standard specifies and names various transfer rates, eg. T1, T2, etc with new names being added in new versions of the standard. (eg. version 1 defines speed T1, version 2 defines speeds T1, T2. etc.)

4) Manufacturers are not allowed to use the version of the USB specification in their marketing material at all. A port is not "USB 3.1", it's "USB C T2".

The version of the spec only serves to confuse customers because the whole point is that versions are backwards compatible. The only thing the customer cares about is the physical port layout and what features/transfer rate are supported over that port.

So the marketing names would be:

USB A T1, USB A T2

USB C T1, USB C T2, USB C T3

As a customer, I can easily see that I can't plug a "USB A T1" into a "USB C T1" because they are different physical ports. I can also see that "USB C T2" is faster than "USB C T1".

Admittedly thing are slightly more complicated because the transfer rate is not the only "feature", we also have to consider what kinds of data can be transferred. We can extend the full marketing name to:

USB C T1 (audio)

USB C T1 (audio,video)

etc.

Obviously this is too long to have on the port itself, so we can stick with just the port type and transfer speed (eg. USB C T2) as the short name.