skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ventured under my 120 year old house to make a couple Ethernet runs. It took a lot of meditation on my part to bear doing it. On one run, I needed my wife to pull on a fish line from above, but then she had to feed the baby, and so I watched an episode of star trek on my phone for half an hour while wedged between wood stilts.

6 months later, I got a notice that the cable I used was recalled for a bad UL rating. Monoprice had to pay a contractor had to come out and replace it. When coordinating the work, I warned the company that it was a very dirty job that would require two people. They sent an older guy out all alone, and he poked around for half an hour then left, saying he would come back with PPE and a helper. A couple weeks later the same guy came back alone and unprepared again. Finally the third time he came back with a much younger guy and bunny suits, and they redid the runs.

I had stapled the cables up every couple meters, and followed a Manhattan path based on where I could crawl to. they just fished it in a straight line, and left it resting in the dirt. They presumably billed Monoprice several thousand dollars...
And YouTube. Some of the biggest commentary channels used to be Viners.

The fact that it was shut down when it was is testament to how badly Twitter misplayed their hand with it. Every single creator flocked to whatever platform would take them at the time.
It's been a bit since I've looked, but browser RCEs are particularly expensive and coveted. They're a potential vector for 1-click soft/hard roots in homebrew and hacking communities, and of course, 1-click RCEs are invaluable to anyone who has the resources to obtain them and victims to exploit.
>What do you think the kings and queens of old did other than assigning blame when a problem came up?

When rare unforeseeable stuff happened they chalked up to god.

Violence was reserved for the people who genuinely screwed up.
Or no public schools. What's even the point? The whole k-12 curriculum needs a revamp. Can they at least compress it to k-9 and leave the rest of those years for actual preparation for adulthood?
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> Off-topic but since you brought it up, does anybody ever use builtin central vacuum systems? I have several friends who have houses built during the era when these things were popular but none of them ever use the systems.

I grew up in a house with one. I haven't lived there since 1998, but, yes, we used it all the time. As my sibling commenter lreeves says (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31361950), it's good if you have allergies.
Oh, and they left the box of recalled cable that I hadn't installed yet, so I have like 400ft of free but uninstallable CAT6.
> How did we reach the kind of socioeconomic climate where people are actually willing to put their hard-earned money into such a thing?

They’re unregulated slot machines. Go and look at the Terra/Luna Twitter and Reddit. It’s filled with casual to addiction-level gambling tells. The responsible ones acknowledge they’re putting a few hundred in and will likely lose it but maybe it goes up. The less fortunate treat it like an investment.
The only people who buy a car for their median usage are people who can afford two (or more) cars.

Everyone else has to buy to cover the 99% pctile or they’re screwed when they need to do something somewhat unusual (long drive to grandmas house, move, vacation, family emergency, whatever).

And for those who say ‘just rent!’ - I’ve tried, and most of the times you’d want to, you can’t get a rental, because a bunch of other folks got there first! Rental companies can’t buy enough cars to handle peak usage a few times a year.
Because wifi is shared via time slicing don't you have to be quiet part of the time anyways?
Reminds me of the Suzuki Jimny we don't get stateside.
macOS Multi-Monitor Problems
I largely agree, even the skits that are considered all time classics fall a bit flat for me. (I'm sorry in advance, but the cowbell sketch comes to mind).

There have definitely been occasional hits, though.
If at all, the "-a" pixel phones should have traditional/stable features like headphone jacks, fingerprint sensors on the back (no experimental/slow in back of glass sensor) , and the "smaller" form factor. It's really disappointing that this "high/low" market is not exploited.
I've spent between $5 and AU$60 on usbc-3.5mm dongles, and every single one has had issues. Can't use it for walking around because the slightest jog to it will cause a connection issue, which will cause the music to stop, so you have to manually make it start playing again.
It’s certainly not a technology without flaws, but being overly locked down is definitely not one of them, no? Too many things have Bluetooth now, rather than the reverse.

Makes the argument that the headphone jack was removed for lock-in reasons pretty weak when the replacement will probably start coming with your produce in a couple of years. There is certainly no lack of Bluetooth headphones you can buy, even if they have all of the flaws above. The lock-in is not the problem.
If this law gets passed it will backfire spectacularly.
One thing I really, really like about the idea is it makes it easier to share full repro test cases if something goes wrong.
Well, end user, all your files may be held for crypto ransom, but at least the machine is untouched! Very High Security!
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Nation states aren't the only threat. There are billion dollar organized crime and fraud networks that have the means to both collect, and successfully weaponize, such RCEs.
Agree. I remember very fondly an English translation of Gunter Grass' "Dog Years" for how German the novel felt. A great translation gives the reader the original's feel and impression. Too many editions/translations pander to the lowest factor and try to keep the even the dumbest reader comfortable!
> if you don't mind carrying a wired headset, a usb-c > 3.5mm adapter can't be the dongle that breaks the camel's back..?

I never carry a dongle or a wired headset. I use an aux wire in my car, and a pair of over-ear wired headphones at my desk. When I travel to visit family, I can plug my phone into their old stereo receiver (which works as great now as it did 30 years ago). When a friend wants to play music in my car, they can plug into the aux wire I have. A usb-c dongle is one more thing I won't have with me and I'll be stuck using the speaker in the phone, and it will be garbage. So I will once again hunt for a phone that has an aux port.
After decades of incorrect advice from industry-funded experts it's little wonder people turn to Youtube.
> Android/iOS releases for past 4 years, you can simply skip and you don't notice any changes in Visual/New Features/Performance aspect

Oh c'mon, that's not fair. There have been monumental leaps forward in security, performance, design and pretty much everything else on Android at least. The design has been radically updated in 12 too, which is nice to see (even if some bits broke my workflow).

There's a fine balancing act with this: Change too little, and people call the OS old and legacy software; change too much, and you've broken a lot of people's workflow(s) and expectations of the OS. They really can't win either way.
Fixing that one bug won't fix the plethora of issues

* emoji is not the system emoji.

* neither the browser's nor the OS's spelling error highlighting works (the place I have my own words registered)

* reconvert and other IME options don't work

just to name a few. Just please stop with the canvas rendering!
That's funny. Not even cops are required to do that.
I definitely get a sense of schadenfreude when i see the particularly toxic communities in the crypto market suffering.

but i don't particularly want to see cryptocurrencies fail in general.

I think atm I see this a a "reset" or cleansing. There was too many obvious scams and well dressed and marketed pyramid schemes. This will collapse a lot of them.
I use Linux and I don't audit the source and dependencies of every single program I use or run things in VMs. I do expect wherever possible that programs run in a sandbox with the most limited set of permissions. I have been running almost everything in Flatpak on Wayland and it seems to clearly be the future.
Please. It's not a privilege to run Ethernet any more than having Internet and a laptop is a privilege. A spool is like $100, and you don't need to drill gigantic holes and run 60 wires back to a central drop to a 10 gig switch. I have run Ethernet cables in all my rentals (even when I was working minimum wage), usually only need 1 or 2 at the most. It's not rocket science either. You can go around the outside of your house, just like how a cable TV or phone installer will do it.

Landlords never notice or care. Just don't make it look shitty, they will just think it's a phone jack anyways.
I take this to mean that you think they are rare, confirming a part of my assessment on the probability of risk.

Since I cannot reply to your other comment, I will respond here. What proportion of Firefox-Linux users do you think are victims of such RCE attacks?
I do think vision habits matter for near sightedness. The human eye, like all mammal eyes, seems adapted for far vision. To bring the focal point in, the ciliary muscle must contract to change the shape of the eye. When it relaxes, the focal point goes back out far away.

In the environment for which we are adapted, most time was spent focusing far away. In the modern world, a person may spend all day, every day, for years on end, focusing on things close up like books and screens. If the ciliary muscle is always contracted, it can get stuck; over time, even change the shape of the eyeball from constant pressure such that the cornea focuses too far in front of the retina, making the image blurry.

Perhaps I was too quick to get glasses when things first started looking blurry. If I had known, I would have tried to get the ciliary muscle to relax by focusing on things far away for at least a time every day. Instead, I went right to the minus lenses but kept my lifestyle of close up work all the time. This led to hyperopic defocus, meaning my ciliary muscle had to continue to contract to focus on near objects through the minus lens.

About 7 years ago I had the thought of improving my vision habits. I will spare HN the details, but my vision (optometrist confirmed) has improved from about -3.5 diopters to -2.25 diopters. I can now do things without glasses including working on the computer, cooking, and reading, for which I am grateful.
The cheaper phones and models for the Asian market still have the headphone jacks.
If you haven't already, check out Nix/Guix.
Not going to lie I'd buy that Nissan Trailrunner right now. A little Rally Fighter style coupe, from a major Japanese manufacturer not particularly known for their rally prowess.
> My experience is that _while engaging in that maintenance_ Twitter rapidly depleted in utility and value for me, because the dark patterns that encourage outrage engagement infected all those that I follow. It's simply not possible, AFAICT, to actively filter Twitter for strong content and not eventually either recede into accepting outrage or reducing one's feed to uselessness.

I reached the same conclusion. It’s garbage, and I quit. Occasionally I’ll get a text from a friend linking to Twitter and I regret following the link, every time, within 60 seconds or so.
If you mess with a doctor's icon placement you hear about it. If a computer they use looks old I hear about it. So, yeah. Don't mess with wifi.
I think it's like making up an alternate future but one that is feasible to reach (as opposed to e.g. Star Trek) or in other words, it's very-near-future hard sci-fi imagining a world that would be fun to live in and then trying to make it a reality. And why not? Aren't we living in a post-historical age? I think the development of quasi-arbitrary niches or fandoms where people make up a fantasy world and live there makes sense. Lifestyle as art. We're presumably free of the strictures and limits that plagued pre-scientific societies, our technology has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, it may not be evenly distributed yet but the future is here.

If you can make your art/life self-sustainable (and you're not hurting anyone) so much the better. Life, rather than imitating art, becomes it. I'm thinking of the Hundred Rabbits folks ( https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/hundred_rabbits.html ), or the hand-made sail-powered Ceiba schooner under construction now in Costa Rica ( https://www.sailcargo.inc/ ) and already under contract to deliver sustainably grown coffee to Canada next year.
The original OP-1 was kind of expensive, but it was a unique product that a middle-class person might buy if they're really into creative music making. Sort of like how a middle-class person might buy a high-quality guitar -- because they feel it's worth it and there isn't n less expensive option that they'd be satisfied with.

I feel like at a $1999 price point, though, they've crossed into territory where their products are going to increasingly be seen as being only for rich people, and I think it's starting to hurt their credibility. The coverage of their new mixer on /r/synthesizers was overwhelmingly negative. It's like if Apple suddenly decided that going forward all their products would be gold plated and cost twice as much. If you make it too obvious that the point of the product is to flaunt wealth, then that detracts from it being just a product that's interesting, pleasant to use, and useful in some context.
YouTube got some people pretty hot and bothered when they demonetized some LGBT content because of advertiser preferences. I'm curious to see how that one plays out under this law...
Don't play dumb, you're receiving downvotes because you implied OP was lying:

> To be fair anything anti-apple is a quick way to get clicks.
It's a misconception that electrons are slower than photons. In a vacuum? Maybe. But you need a medium to use photons and in fiber photons go at 0.5-0.75c.

Electronic signals in copper propagate at somewhere from 0.66-0.8c.

The big benefit of photons is that they don't experience electrical interference, so you can often get a lot more bandwidth out of a arbitrarily sized photonic medium than an electronic one.

The actual latency of photons vs electrons is generally not relevant.
I don't have a lot of myopia (max -1.5 on both eyes) but I also have astigmatism (around 1.75 for both). I find I can work fine on my computer distance-focus wise but the astigmatism means text are slightly blurry. Do any of you have this problem too? Do you have another set of glasses that are just correcting the astigmatism?
Not just to prolong battery life, to prevent the device from overdrawing the battery and shutting down when it couldn't provide the same peak current as it could when new.
Yes I would and I would welcome it if I saw others doing it. This is what normalization is about. If alcohol use is somewhere between allowed and expected I would say cannabis use should be somewhere between allowed and expected.
Why should crimes of passion be exempted from the general murder rates? A society where it's more acceptable or common to kill someone who upsets you is a more dangerous society.
This is a fantastic idea. I'm surprised nothing like this has caught on.
We should think more about the Human alignment problem.

Absolutely this

The possibility of a thing being intentionally engineered by some humans to do things considered highly malevolent by other humans seems extremely likely and has actually been common through history.

The possibility of a thing just randomly acquiring an intention humans don't like and then doing things humans don't like is pretty hypothetical and it seems strictly less like than the first possibility.
What are release groups?
When talking about a movement with a large number of people one has to generalize a bit. It’s ok to say members of X are Y even when there exists at least one counter example.
The great work of your life by Stephen Cope

Have started reading this one recently, really fun read so far. Book's focus is on Dharma.
Sure, publishing is one thing, but not even taking the pictures and/or allowing parents to take them is the problem. It is lazy blame-avoidance backed by some kind of hysteria (if you ask me). Of course they need some consent form if they’re going to post it publicly, but the parent group should not be considered “public” in my opinion.
Introduction to Software Freedom Conservancy [video]
That is not true; there is conflicting precedent on the matter.
This is disgustingly accurate.
> And I mean actual school shootings, not the kind of stuff that's defined as, "somebody fired a gun somewhere on school property at any time, and somebody died as a result"

sigh
More like 10^55 years, actually!
I think there's a part of the HN population that has delusions of becoming billionaires one day, so they talk about tens of millions like it's not much. They'll likely never have either.
I haven't read him, I'm not much for philosophy I'm sorry to admit.
The debt is one thing, another is missing out on that steady pension contribution from a normal salaried job.
This is the result we are seeing now. Nobody wants to fix the issue because then you wouldn't have the issue to berate the other side. It's better to campaign and raise money with that issue than to actually solve the issue.
I feel like first some obscure or Chinese manufacturer will do it, then apple will copy it, ironing out any issues the previous manufacturer faced. Only then will the rest of manufacturers do follow suit.
I hated that my Pixel 3 had no headphone jack, I swore I'd never buy a phone without one, but when my Nexus 5X broke and I needed a phone, I got the Pixel 3. I didn't even realize it didn't have a headphone jack until I got it.

It came with a USB-C->headphone dongle and then I discovered that USB->headphone dongles were cheap, so I bought one for each of the headphones I used regularly, and it was really not a big deal.

But now I've switched almost fully to bluetooth headphones, except for my old expensive Etymotics that I use on airplanes since they are small and easy to pack, and the in-ear style is great at blocking noise.
A primary reason the photo was so widely viewed and published is the monkey operating the camera.

The sizzle, the legs on this is: monkey selfie, take a look!

Had he taken the photo, the story would have been: photographer takes one in a million photo of rare, difficult to photograph monkey, take a look!

Publishing the former is apparently free. Publishing the latter comes with a royalty.

Would the latter story have the sizzle, legs the former one does, and would publishers have paid?

I feel for him.

But, there is picking battles. He could have walked from it, worked on other photos, kept going.

Had he done that, he would be the guy there when a monkey did something amazing!

But what he did was make sure he is remembered as the guy who tried to own what a monkey did.

In hindsight and as someone not invested at all, that's a mistake, and it expensive, painful, regrettable.

Ouch!
I think the "AGI wants to kill us" meme is just to get us ready for the moment when the authorities unleash the killer robots on us because there's too many of us on the planet. "Whoops, those robots did it all by themselves because it's just inevitable that AGI was going to do that. Haven't you watched a sci-fi movie in the last 50 years?"
It probably does. Then again, I accidentally tossed my phone in the laundry a few years back and it somehow managed to survive. While it is no longer in daily use, I still keep that decade old device around as a backup and it has outlived several phones since then. Something tells me that the vast majority of phones fail for reasons other than water seeping in through the headphone jack.
Reminds me of my dad who connected to ISP through antenna made out of Pringles can. Surely he found a recipe somewhere but everybody was in awe regardless.
A lack of lockdown does not absolve the adoption of shit standards.
What a fantastic idea! I have so many half baked things that some idiot (me) built without documenting the underlying API. This will make life so much easier
S4 here. Battery is easily replaceable and I use a protective case. No problems.
Middle-class white people aren't blameless for trashing cities. Look at any urban environment where they live in high concentrations (i.e. residential high rises) and observe that the sidewalks are a communal toilet for their dogs.
> There's evidence everywhere, every second of every day. It doesn't follow from the mind having a material basis that it is doing linear algebra calculations like a Python machine learning program. That's quite a leap.

Not literally, no. But it is entirely possible that what the human mind is doing is equivalent (in the Turing machine sense), if far more efficient (calorically) and robust (though haphazard and stochastic).
> This is different on a public platform like Twitter where everyone can see everything.

Aren't subreddits public, too? You can also ping people; T_D famously enraged /u/spez enough for him to start editing the comments of other users. I don't think anyone argues that filter bubbles don't exist on Twitter, either. Now, Twitter groups aren't as clearly segregated as subreddits, but I still don't see visibility as a big differentiator, to be honest.
Note that Ethernet over power should also work on coax, or really any other cable. (connect adapters to the wire and feed it with eg. 48V power supply)
This isn't lucky, but besides that, no, I'm not happy when a very small percentage of our population "gets lucky". We should have 80% of this country be able to afford a home, a vehicle, have affordable healthcare, and a minimum of 4 weeks vacation in the modern 21st century.

Everything else is just a smoke screen to make "your lucky existence" justified compared to the masses who did nothing wrong except be born into this system.
When the criminal "Civil Rights Act" came to be, people got confused about what is public property, and what is private property and no one else's business.
The inverse function: "what level of aggregated pay makes a meeting more than an MBP" is needed because MBP price and renumeration vary by economy and time.

I for one would welcome this service so I can ironically distain meetings on sound financial bases.