skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Working close to Government... I've never seen any mission specifically seeking large-scale citizen-based tracking capabilities.

Further and rarely understood, but it never is about what the government currently does, but what it could do when change occurs.. like the Nazis could exterminate the dutch jews (was it then?) better because they had those registers.. like what if the next Putin/Orban/Trump takes over and wants to take some more steps..

General principle of data economy is one pillar for civil rights! Its abuse by companies right now is an super annoying but comparably small issue.
> And you did resort to a logical fallacy in that.

False. You should read my comment again or at least a few more times to understand the (relatively simple) point I was trying to make.

I was saying you couldn't employ ad hominem against Penrose because it was not easy for you to do so.
I'm not sure there's anything special about writing in the context of managing that can't be claimed for communication in general. The ability to form words and sentences to convey ideas, meaning, and intent should be expected to correlate positively with management skill.

I suppose there's something to be said for the durability of writing, which makes it quite a lot harder to say something and then claim later to never have said it, or to have said something completely different.

Well, I guess I just undermined my own point.
But only because there's no `contains` function!
Any EE remember 5-10 years ago when all the ECE folks online had a HUGE chip on their shoulders about absolutely needing an MS?

Kind of funny to see software people outearn them 10x these days. That's what gatekeeping does to you.
> I'm torn about this. I don't want my money going to silly lawsuits, I want it to go towards archiving important cultural goods.

We live in a world where one corporation can singlehandedly change copyright for the worse for the majority of humanity, where copyright is actively being used and abused, not just for profit maximation but also for the suppression of information.

In such a world lawsuits sadly are a part of enabling to do what IA is trying to do; Set precedents for what doesn't fall under copyright, fighting for interests that are not 100% based on profits.
> processor is great, but not significantly faster than competitors at similar price points

Don’t missguide people please!

M1pro is crazy fast in comparison to other laptops at similar price point.

I literally got ruby etc compiled in seconds, while in minutes for top intel based macs.
The value is pretty limited when the answer is consistently and predictably "Yes".

The author is clearly an expert in exfiltration and has deep insights in the area. But instead of working on presenting the big picture, prefers to throw breadcrumbs to the community. After a dozen of "exfiltration using X" papers, one would at least expect an SoK paper.
am I the only one who sees this as progress?

the people are belatedly realising that 'the news' is not the neutral reporting of events, but the manufacture of information products for commercial or political gain. That it has always been this way will be the next step of our realisation.

we need a new model of revenue, new model of media ownership
This can be disabled, although who knows if it's just hidden for you.
So instead of a hard coded url it's a hard coded reference to a url? How does it deal with a breaking changing? Say the order of the links changes? It doesn't seem like this works without some out of band information.
i think a state level actor would find it much easier to compromise f-droid and its app then the play store.

at least with google play you know they're selling your data so can adjust your behaviour accordingly.
Well, that's because you do not work with go much I guess?

I can say the same about Fennel, List or Haskell.

The first example is the way to go in Go. It's idiomatic, not a hack. And it works the same way for many things (for example checking if a channel's closed)
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes. A single anecdote is not comparable to the sweeping restrictions imposed by the pro-life movement.
Nah. When they made it “if you want the highest quality please buy two more streams to get it” everyone read “it’s reasonable to pay more for more streams and higher quality” then got groups together to use that.

Netflix has made too many errors on the path to short-term value/quarterly numbers, from failing to sign longer-term deals (and thus enabling the creation of their current competitors in the first place) to repeatedly raising prices without making whatever their value proposition actually is much clearer to consumers.

One might say it’s a house of cards, and right now random cards are being pulled out while they wonder if they can fix their mistakes before they “find out”.
TLDR version: Bitcoin is really cool, and lots of people think it's really cool, so it won't fail.
Space Travel Will Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn
I've always thought a python-based emacs would be really fun. I just seem to write code in python so much more naturally than lisp.
That's simply wrong!
Interesting post, with many insightful comments but I think regarding data validation, this fella needs a bit of strong typed language training and functional programming skills, a lot of the problems from the current ML ecosystem comes because many use python, simple as that.
Not even that extreme compared to what’s happening in mainland Europe.
Hah, yeah, I'm definitely using my own definition of humility, thus showing none :)

Note to self: Humility =/= reality
Why would Glassdoor keep this information? And why would they say they kept it rather than saying they had already deleted it?

Regardless, they need to just delete it now and say they lost the information, and risk the wrath of the NZ legal system rather than risking never getting a review again.
A numeric input field for money should respond to numbers, - and +; that's it.

We're not entering a brush size into GIMP here.
An SPA Alternative
I'm going to buck the trend here and say I might try subscribing for a little bit to see if it's worth the cost.

My parents have been Netflix subscribers since before they did streaming, and I've never paid a dime for Netflix (though I've been subscribed to Prime for a few years, and have tried other subscription streaming services in the past).

Netflix is probably 40-70% of my legal streaming though (though IIRC it's also a little bit more expensive than Prime, which also offers free shipping, so it's not a direct comparison).

I'm in my late 30s now and living in a different country than my parents. Is it easy to be outraged that they're cutting off access to something that has been free (for me) for over a decade? Sure. But emotion aside, it might honestly just be time to consider subscribing and seeing how much it costs, and give it a cost-benefit analysis on its own merits (past usage terms aside). If I decide against it, I'm really just out of the cost of a few months, and realistically its brought more value to me over the last 10 years than it could reasonably cost in a few months.

I do want Netflix to survive because they really did validate the idea of streaming for all the services they're now competing with.
Thank you for calling out this behavior!
Do not click. It's a pointless clickbait article.

$180k car. Low volume.
Reminder that libel vs truth is dependent on where you are. In the US you don’t risk libel when speaking the truth but there are places where this isn’t the case.
If they want to change the laws, they could be agitating for a system such as Australia where authors get paid when their books are checked out from libraries. For many Australian authors, it is where the majority of their writing income comes from. Note that it is authors and not publishers receiving this money from the Australian Government. It wouldn't even cost that much, given how little people actually read on average.
It would serve you better to become clearer in what you are trying to say.

Are you agreeing with the "whistleblower" or not?
I haven't seen any arcane domain specific knowledge that was in the software part, sure a your business can be infinitely arcane but the software was always very straightforward.

EE is in a different ballpark, imagine if you had to explicitly pay attention to write software that didn't melt your CPU.
Even firmware development in C is lower paid than almost any Java/JS conventional development role in Sydney. Having done both, the C one is much harder due to being in a much more resource limited environment.

The only real electronics roles I see outside the occasional advert for some of the bigger names maybe once every six months are uni roles paying 1/4 of the salary outside of unis (always boasting 18% Super/RRSP LOL)
They are saying that your overly theoretic application of copyright is in absolute contrast to the technical realities of how the web works.

It's a discussion that's been had for literally decades, because most tech-fluent people realized a long time ago how a copyright that's designed for physical distribution does not lend itself well to the intangible nature of the web, were replication is trivial and in many cases a mandatory necessity to enable a lot of functions in the very first place.

Sadly that discussion simply died out at some point, I think it was around 2010 when smartphones and social media started to boom, so the copyright reform that was supposed to "fix" all this never came.
We use the old REST a lot and call that what you name "new REST" Json-RPC. What's so difficult about naming things what they are? I mean Devs do have some brain. That's why we are able to write cool software. But then why are some of us too stupid to get that REST thing right?
However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
That's more than most meats and vegetables, definitely on the higher side of groceries. Too expensive to eat a whole bunch with every meal.
From a recent Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/vyxqqt/comment/ig5...
That's awesome, congratulations! I hope you're me from the future.

I'm doing almost exactly the same thing, with the exception that I spent less time as a full stack dev and I'm doing the DevOps for a dramatically lower salary.

I'm hoping to bump up to at least the national average (and remote would be nice) after completing the large projects laid out for the next year.
I love this kind of article. I’ve been involved in web development since the mid-1990s, so I lived through all the things the author is talking about, but I never got down into the weeds and did things like read dissertations. Reading this article makes so many things make sense about where web development has gone and why. I could never quite put my finger on why I was so uncomfortable with where it had gone until now.
In broad terms Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. The style of writing and name for God in each is distinctly different. God creates man in both. Both, as I understand it, stand apart in style from the remainder of Genesis having a stronger poetic feel to them. Genesis 2:4 could make a alternative start to the Bible. This is just stuff I have picked up - I am no expert.
Don’t parse the HTML, just display it. That’s what the browser does best.
I'm pretty linked into to those providing social services to homeless in the bay area.

> I thought it was pretty well established at this point that homelessness isn’t a financial issue, but instead a mental health / drug abuse issue?

The answer to this is a definite "no". There is a meaningful sub-population of homeless with mental health / drug abuse problems for whom financial and housing support seems insufficient, but they're not the only kind of homeless and in places like the Bay Area they don't even make up the majority.

I encourage you to look at this graph[0] showing a correlation between housing prices and homelessness. But also if you are in the Bay Area, going to some of these camps and meeting people can be very instructive. I've been to a few and most people I encounter, while not the most together people you'll ever meet, many were obviously employable just not at a rate that affords housing and in the Bay Area.

[0] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
Sorry for stating the obvious, but for US authorities having the world’s data in the hands of an American company is a strategic asset, having it in the hands of a Chinese company is a strategic liability.
> here

I think you need to specify "here" to get an answer to that question.
I think this is why modern day politicians are so bad. They need to be so good at rewriting history that they cannot put their thinking in clear writing. I read letters and essays written by Abraham Lincoln and was struck by the clarity of thought and the power of his words. I don't think I've read any writings of recent politicians that make me feel the same way.
Worth noting also that a lot of the more specialized roles that someone like Intel or the few other HW companies need is increasingly specialized, meaning MS and PhD. That makes it all the more frustrating to encounter these salary disparities others have described.

Part of what's happening here may also relate to the fact that EE PhDs are dominated by international students (70-80%), compared to ~10% in CS undergrad. That gives companies a lot of negotiating power to drag down the average salary.
This is the worst kind of publicity for ZURU. They thought it was difficult to hire employees because of a handful of critical reviews on Glassdoor? It's about to get a lot harder. The company should have spent those extra resources researching how to make their employees happier (and hence, more productive).
Stupid article and headline. Not the FCC, an FCC Commissioner.
Why is the front end coder parsing anything? Just display the HTML.
We're discussing standards or professional conduct.

Funding gets you more police officers but their conduct depends on management and leadership, not on extra funding (at least as long as funding allows for decent salaries).

In this case, and again others that have hit the news, funding is quite irrelevant, the issue is organisational.
> as it has proven to be the most stable, reliable and consistent energy delivery system in the world.

I think what horrifies me most about today is that literally delusional people such as yourself seem to be in positions of power everywhere.
Someone having a break-down in communication and then a falling out with their spouse, ultimately leading to divorce, doesn’t mean either partner is a bad person, lacking in generosity or compassion, etc.

Marriages can be delicate, take a lot of hard work, and can break in any number of ways, when the two partners’ priorities don’t align. It’s a particular challenge if one of the partners is extremely busy with their work, often traveling alone, has lots of external obligations and commitments ....

These particular letters are evidence that Einstein had a bad relationship with his wife for many years and probably fell well short of her original expectations, being more occupied with his career than his family. But not necessarily evidence that he was a jerk or mistreating anyone. Without knowing a whole lot more about the situation it’s pretty hard to judge from a few letters.

(It is generally shitty that women were (and are) often expected to give up their careers to support their husbands’ careers, and later to raise children. As a society we could do a lot more to promote gender equality and help support families.)
"Bitcoin is not going to fail," says guy heavily invested in Bitcoin and other crypto.

Hard to get someone to change their mind when their paycheck depends on them not changing it.
I’m still writing mine (taoofmac.com), for nearly 20 years now. Tone and content changed (following my hobbies now, mostly), pace changed (from daily to once a week), but it’s still there.

I think the main issue these days is that people have either become more focused on short form content or on relentless promotion of fluff. Once blogs became a corporate thing, a lot of objectivity (and usefulness) was lost.

On the other hand, there are still plenty of people out there writing about niche technology topics with a lot of quality.

They’re just not on Medium or any of the usual content mills.
Indeed. It’s surprising this isn’t coming from the CIA or the NSA. But then maybe it is.
You 'll finally be able to play real life carmageddon
More on friendcatchers here: https://www.swyx.io/friendcatchers
This story has had a great influence on how I taught dancing (swing-Lindy Hop).

Always start from an easy place, build from there, no surprises, no big jumps, and you arrive at the destination.

A bit of the opposite of the "How to draw an Owl" meme [0].

So it seems that I was looking at a different part of the picture than most of the people here. You were admiring Einstein focus, while I was examining his method.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
Actually[0], Secure Boot can be left on, just need to enable 3P CA.

IMO, the fact that there’s this extra steps is arguably bad. There’s a sec argument here that I don’t fully buy. But people overreacted to this a bit without having the full information.

[0] https://liliputing.com/2022/07/lilbits-booting-linux-on-some...
This is also why planes with large wings (think of a glider vs. a fighter jet) are more efficient; they are pushing a larger volume of air slower.
It's like talking with a madman.

https://www.texastribune.org/series/winter-storm-power-outag...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962...

https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/resources/reports/UTAustin_...

There is no doubt at all that there were serious power outages in early 2021. None. What is wrong with you??
Yep, and a member of the out of power party as well
#1 Continue working with exceptional people.

This is what I miss the most nowadays. Being the number one item is proper placement IMO.

Go is fantastic and makes it easy to build. Hugo is great too - I'm currently using the Docsy template to avoid/replace multiple software products for a crypto/blockchain project.

Cheers
The paid tier has primarily cosmetic features [0], and it does not eliminate advertisements [1].

[0]: https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/article/snapchat-plus

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/29/23187132/snapchat-plus-su...
“We must not do anything about recent thing that is very bad and unpredictable because of this other thing which is also quite bad but we’ve been learning to manage it for 15 years”
Cool = Money
Security a part the occidental world need to protect his market from unfair competition. If Facebook is blocked on china why we have to make TikTok prosper?
Browsers are merely one sort of "user agent"; it was envisaged that all sorts of agents, mostly automated, would be crawling the Web, e.g. fetching news, finding the cheapest price for some widget, etc.

Unfortunately, only browsers and search indexers seem to have caught on (and many sites are actively hostile to anything else)
NDAs are sometimes not in the public interest and should be violated in those cases.
Ya know what they say... "Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first."
We should essentially use the Oauth PKCE flow everywhere it is applicable
I don't have a horse in this race at all, but the annoying part is that the same rules don't get applied across the board. Everything they're accusing TikTok of - from data harvesting to the government having access to said data - is true for western companies as well and that should be the problem. Not the fact that the data is now in the hands of the Chinese but that the data is being collected at all provided to the government.

The problem should be that the data is collected and provided to the government whenever they want - not that it's not the Chinese government. We had this discussion after the Snowden leaks and nothing changed whatsoever. Back then it was the US government and the US gov had the chance to change the rules so this could not happen. Now they're up in arms because other governments do the exact same thing. It's really annoying.

Ban every app that collects "problematic" user info. Make the collection itself illegal, give users control about their data but don't argue that the practice suddenly becomes problematic when others do it.
In the early 1980s my dad’s hobby was flying “Old Timer” RC model aircraft. The plans had to date from 1942 or before. I couldn’t find any contemporary rule books but [0] looks accurate. I’m glad to see it continues to this day.

When they weren’t competing, which was most of the time, they’d play. It was very common to pop a servo controlled very light disposable camera in planes. I must be misremembering some details - how did they forward to the next frame? Were there repeat timers on such old cameras?

The type of aircraft was perfect - slow stable gliders. They took a few minutes of fuel to climb then glided for 10+ minutes. It was my job to retrieve the aircraft from wherever it landed. Sadly I have no access to example photos.

This widespread practise was almost identical to the blog post. Thanks for sharing! It brought back memories.

Off thread: Covers of 1980s RC Modeller magazine are a long way from 2022 norms. [1]

[0] https://www.maaa.asn.au/images/pdfs/Australian-Rules-S5-Old-...

[1] https://designyoutrust.com/2022/01/portraits-of-lovely-ladie...
The dance around that issue will be more entertaining than any dance skit we will see on TikTok. Avoidance of addressing it is the reason Tiktok has been allowed to run as long as it has. Push surveillance capitalism to the max and expose the hypocrisy that can bring down one of America's biggest industries. Well played China!
To sell, I assume. Having a "data play" is the new hotness.
After my EE degree, every time an article came out about the 'shortage' of electrical engineers, we would all look at each other and snort and ask "has anyone landed a job doing real EE?", and the answer was always a very small number of grads.

At least where I'm from, there is no shortage, it's all bullshit. Universities keep pumping out more EE grads than are needed. I guess it keeps supplies high.
> hmm facilitating war, even if it means defence just doesn't sit quite right with me. shame we live in a world where this is even a thing

I don't know what this is supposed to even mean. Do you mean "it's a shame to live in a world where defence is necessary" or "it's a shame to live in a world where aggressors face defence"?
Well, I would say Social Media are unacceptable security risk instead of TikTok. Chinese gov generally can't do anything in US compared to US government, so personally I think facebook is more risky.

We need better privacy and social media reform instead of targeting tiktok. Also, why should we listen to Brendan Carr who shouldn't be able to speak for entire FCC. He is from Ajit Pai who takes lobbies from Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Looks like they are worried that their accomplices can't steal more data than tiktok. Lastly, the funny thing is Facebook was asking me for photo and phone number for verification which I denied.
P-hacking is sifting through _many_ possible relationships in a dataset and picking one that happens to look correlated.

This is what I was responding to:

> This matters because if you just crunch the Bayesian numbers on an arbitrary data set you will almost certainly find features that appear predictive but are not. The more numbers you crunch, the more likely this is to happen. A lot of people lose money in the stock market this way.

Please explain how this is not exactly the same concept, expect with different motivations for looking through the data.

> Try to imagine that there's quite a few experts around HN

Why be a jerk though? I gave a reasonably well thought out comment related to one I found interesting, and made sure not to overly imply expertise.