skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly that's only if you want to watch four things at once, or the same show on four screens around you.
Neiher 'flaunting privacy' nor 'direct attack on individual privacy' are fair descriptions of any of the Archive's web collection policies.

People who freely publish information, to the worldwide public, on the 'World Wide Web' should reasonably expect all sorts of entities to collect, save, analyze, & repurpose that info, unless they take specific steps to discourage such access & use.

The Archive's crawlers identify themselves, and collect things that are publicly linked, or specifically nominated-for-collection by library patrons or partners. Except in some focused specialized collection projects, they don't "log in" as any user, only visiting & collecting what's published freely to any anonymous person/organization/process.

For material needing more privacy, websites always have the option to block any and all unwanted visitors/crawlers with a wide variety of standard techniques, like requiring logins or simple challenges that automated crawlers won't pass.

And, as your linked articles report, the process for a later exclusion by request is pretty quick and simple. (The 2nd post concludes: "So, hats off to the Internet Archive for making the process smooth and relatively painless.") And, such exclusion does not require any sort of "DMCA request".
Unfortunately only works in Safari and Mail. I wish they would make it work system-wide (like a real VPN).
I Hacked My Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
Which goes back to this subthread’s root post about investors focusing on companies “promising massive returns in the future.”
I'd not heard of Zuru before. Turns out they make tons of cheap plastic crap that makes Happy Meal toys look well made. Their main brands are chinzy collectable toys that combine gambling with too many layers of plastic wrapping, Mini Brandz (because having kids collect mini plastic versions of Heinz and Miracle Whip isn't weird), and Bunch O Balloons (the ultimate in single-use plastic).
>replacement conspiracy theories

https://europhobia.blog
Programming is a (cool) tool used in many contexts. I’m sure the OP had a particular context in mind, but I’m afraid I don’t know which and can’t agree that there is just “one industry”.
> and individual empowerment through the use of that technology to fight back against either an overreaching state (a response to the complexity) and/or ubiquitous hyper-corporations (built on the technology)

I disagree on this. Neuromancer is generally considered the genre fighting work and it isn't really about fighting back against either the state or against a hyper corp. The protagonists are hired mercs and they are working entirely for mercenary means. Don't get me wrong it is a very common theme of Cyberpunk (Hardwired is a good example of this), but it definitely isn't something always present (Ghost in the Shell is a classic work of Cyberpunk and the protagonists are spec ops police FFS).

I've gotten a bee in my bonnet about people trying to redefine Cyberpunk as being about rebellion and associate it with "punk" the music subculture that has occurred since Cyberpunk 2077 came out and people started criticising it for not being "punk" enough, but that wasn't what the "punk" in "cyberpunk" has meant historically. The "-punk" in "Cyberpunk" is better read as "outcast, misfit, lowlife" and when you understand that these works that are classically considered Cyberpunk make sense; yes Ghost in the Shell has the protagonists be cops, but they are all weirdo social outcasts because they are so heavily cyberized and like Neuromancer it deals with highly advanced AI and the impacts of tech on society
Memory usage and CPU time ! Heyooo!
I often use cat because when constructing a pipeline I'll do multiple rounds of:

head filename | ...

Once its working I find it easy to just type C-aM-dcat (i.e. beginning-of-line kill-word cat).
Thanks for explaining! That indeed sounds like quite a niche. Can I trouble you to ask how you discovered this niche? Is it very difficult to interface to these propriety systems?
Insider Bill Binney tried to do responsible data collection. He got harassed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAflFcpJFQ
Exactly-once processing: Go vs. Urbit
> The problem is we've already gotten too philosophical. Nobody has any prepubescent moral instincts about fertilized human eggs. Nobody has any empathy for fertilized human eggs

Sorry, I vehemently disagree. I remember my parents explaining abortion to me as a child, and I thought it was pretty barbaric. My parents are less 'pro-life' than I am.

> criminalizing birth control.

Personally, I don't use birth control, because I think it's too dangerous.

> Is there somebody out there I could read who argues that the ethical responsibility to carry a pregnancy to term begins at the moment of egg fertilization,

Sure. Christopher Hitchens was pro-life. There are entire secular organizations. Actually 12% of all pro-lifers have no religious affiliation: https://secularprolife.org/2019/07/the-religious-diversity-o...

There are even leftist orgs who engage in 'direct action', like pro-life Antifa: https://paaunow.org/. Not my cup of tea, since I typically disagree with leftist approaches to argumentation, even though we'd agree in this case. Here's their manifesto (https://paaunow.org/stances). They don't believe extramarital sex is wrong in a moral sense.

Honestly, most of the pro-life movement is not Catholic. Most evangelical and Protestant churches believe BC is fine. Many evangelical churches are okay with extra marital sex.
> I don’t know anyone who has a bluray player.

Everyone with a playstation or an xbox has one.
What is the advantage of using Radarr over just directly downloading? Sonarr makes sense, since there are on going seasons that can be automatically picked up.

Is there really enough anticipation of a single movie to want to set it up ahead of time? Or is there something else that makes it great?
I mean... he's preaching to anyone claiming to be pro-life in general.
Do those photos show you operating system and browser ?
Prime Video Redesign
Is your experience really that engineers cannot reliably estimate feasibility given a fixed budget, and that they have to be treated like children and asked for something completely different?

If they can't do their own feasibility assessments, they will be producing bad work, because there are many feasibility questions that arise during design and development, and never even make it to the parents^Wmanagement.

Then I feel like that's the bigger problem that needs to be handled with training, and perpetually working around it is still a bad idea.
It says they'll allow you to use it while you travel. I'm guessing they just won't let you use Netflix in more than one place at once.
I think its a recency bias. Netflix has produced some very good content in the past like House of Cards, Dark, and Black Mirror, but recently it has not produced anything noteworthy at all.

Personally, the fact they havent even made a new season of Black Mirror in years is offensive enough to me. Like its such a cultural hit. Double down and make more of that instead of giving us dumb stuff like the Floor is Lava.
Cheers!

I'm going to try to work up a decent reply to your article, but it might take me a day or two.

Have you read Wendell Berry's "What are People For?" (that essay not the whole eponymous book)?

- - - -

The (open) secret at the heart of AI is that no AI can answer: "What is good?" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720621 )

AKA "Lucky for whom?" Teela Brown, fictional character in Larry Niven novels

Spoiler alert!

This link gives details of the character that are spoilers: https://larryniven.fandom.com/wiki/Teela_Brown

Unfortunately those details are the point I'm trying to make, and I'm a huge Niven fan so I'm not going to spoil Ringworld, but it ties in with the (ultimately metaphysical) question, "What is good?"
So you must be against child support and child negligence laws right? I for one cannot wait for our new libertarian utopia stepping over the bodies of neglected, abused, and traumatized children. It's scary what some people fantasize about.
If Netflix had kept and improved physical delivery maybe you would.
I like these articles. But, what I'd really like are some examples of good and bad writing. This would actually help (as opposed to explaining the process behind it). Anyone have any examples?
Sounds like Mississippi
I also went to school for EE, but after a summer job doing SW, I switched to CS when I got back in the fall. I think CS (a good program) teaches you fundamentally how Systems work, independent of the substrate. EE is actually rather trivial compared to the complexity of big systems. EEs just learn altium, read some data sheets, and poof, out pop the circuits. Throw it in LT spice if you think it'll impress the boss. That's it. You need to know at most 2 pieces of sophisticated SW (schematic/PCB + spice). For a SW person, heck, there is always something that must be mastered, and pronto. Unless a SW person can kick back and write COBOL all day, there is much more to learn and apply to problem solutions. SW is fundamentally more demanding.
Yep, DevOps has a similarly high status with ML.
> If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game.

From an OPSEC perspective, sure. But the question was whether it's legal for an employer to do it.

You might also get a phone call (on your private phone) about a private medical matter while at work, but I would hope your employer couldn't use the CCTV audio they have in the office to decide to fire you based on that information (though I don't know if US laws actually protect workers in this case -- in Australia and basically all of Eastern Europe this would be insanely illegal on several levels).

> Laptops are cheap.

Not for everyone.
Never make voice calls with the SIM phone number. Only use the SIM for data when needed and away from your house. Always use VOIP, Signal, Jitsi, Jami..
Thanks for the links! Will definitely watch :)
> You know what else crosses ISO/OSI layer boundaries? Switches.

No, they do not. Switches work at L2 and are only interested in L2 concepts (MAC addresses). They work transparently for any application that is not crossing the L1/L2 boundary. Routers are L3.
I was hired via a consultancy firm (Ness Technologies) that would have me work in PayPal chennai office back in 2012. A new CEO came and basically reduced work force drastically, the worst mass layoffs I have ever seen. The environment then changed to worse rapidly etc. etc.

I decided to quit the toxic environment. Contractually I was supposed to get 2 months of basic pay, but Ness and Paypal conspired together and concocted a story where I have falsely accused someone of sexual harassasment and since it is false, I can be fired without that 2 months of money. Then they asked my to nicely sign a letter where I forfeit that salary willingly or they will report "this gross misconduct" to future employers.

My review in Glassdoor lasted a year.
Comprehensive surveillance makes blackmailing and controlling politicians easier.
Did something better - studied CS on EE university.

Best decision of my life.
I live in the US, where people and corporations are notoriously litigious and I’ve worked at some terrible places.

For example, I once had a coworker that would openly crush up and snort various pills between calls while fundraising for one of the two main political parties. This was not an issue for management.

I would never post [name of that employer] from any account that could possibly be attached to my name anywhere.
It is not the case that every developed country with a 2nd trimester limit (or any limit) on abortions has an exception for fetal abnormalities.
Is this not what hedgefunds were designed specifically to execute for clients? Presumably using this strategy as their own internal beta or benchmark, and then finding uncorrelated volatile assets and trades to execute the same thing to generate alpha for themselves, and charging ~2/20 fee struture on it.

Literally value machines. Hence their demand for exotic products with uncorrelated volatility characteristics for risk pairing. I superficially get it now. I can see how someone could get the bug for this.
> but now I'm a programmer anyway

I had the exact opposite experience. The CS dept. actively recruited me, and I didn't even realize what CS was until I had completed 2 years of study. I like CS, but had I known better at 17yo, I would have gone EE or CE all the way, because that is my interest, and there is little chance I could uncover anything on my own about electronics without the structure of university. I never wanted to be a programmer, but programming is not computer science, nor does a lucrative programming career require a computer science degree, or any degree. But every where I have seen, a computer science career requires a computer science degree or a mathematics degree, but I have little doubt there is the odd physics grad or engineering grad working as a computer scientist. Just remembered, I know a guy with a biology or botany degree that works as a computer scientist on the modeling side and has for almost 20 years. But he just does modeling, not everything CS.
One feature they could provide (but never will) is fake location data for apps that refuse to work without it.

I remember way back when CyanogenMod was a thing even they refused to implement this.
IT has been automating its lunch away for decades and now even more people work in IT. A paradox. There's no field more cannibalistic than IT. On top of it, most software is open source and yet salaries are high. Apparently making so much of our field free was not a disaster, another paradox. More recently, even AI is doing the same trick - years of task specific work replaced with a prompt and two examples executed by a huge model. No large training dataset needed. That's why we need even more people deploying it now, because it can solve so many tasks previously too difficult to even attempt.
Australia and New Zealand are near the top on that list. Libel and defamation is a very commonly sought after legal means of silencing an organisation, entity or person.

In Australia it's been weaponised by politicians already: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/world/australia/defamatio...

Yes, both countries are places you can raise a family, start a business, walk down the street without getting shot (at least it's very, very unlikely) - you can watch anything (provided it hasn't been censored which has laxed over the years), but you really, really can't say what you want about anyone.

There's a very well-known security specialist who's sued multiple boutique, small-time consultancies and individuals for defamation of his character. He was called a charlatan. This is what it's like on a small-scale, you can't even talk about an individual at local conferences in case they're recorded, because you'll be taken to court (and have to spend 10's of thousands of dollars defending yourself).
After 20 years of programming, this is what comes to my mind when I hear "How do Design Programs":

1: Start with the data structure

The tools to operate on the data can be rewritten or improved without much pain. Changing the data structure is what hurts. If the data structure is elegant, the code will fall into place. If the data structure is messy, the code will grow into a giant hairy ball of madness.

2: Don't use a DB. Use human-readable text files

It makes everything so much easier. You can see if your data structure is elegant. Because then the files will be easy to read and navigate.
You will be able to start up your software 20 years from now without any installation and without having to go through the hell that is setting up the environment and updating dependencies. The website you are reading this on, Hacker News, stores all data in text files.

3: Build small tools to operate on the data

Like Linus started git by writing small tools "git-add", "git-commit", "git-log" etc. On the web you can have one url to do one thing (/urser, /item, /edit here on HN) and map them to one code file on your disk. If you want to use a framework like Django, Laravel or Express, those will unfortunately make it a bit harder to do that. But you can still stick somewhat closely to this approach.

4: Let people use it right away

If you are building it for yourself, you already have a user. Great. If not, let your target group use it right away. Otherwise, you will waste many years of your life building software features nobody understands or even wants.
Cookie-cutter would be better.
Mostly for me it's just set to subscribe to RSS feeds to grab all the new releases of 7+ audience rating with a minimum of DVD quality.

I don't track new releases, they just show up on my Plex when I have them. It's convenient and I don't have to go looking for them.
Dietary supplements. US regs are lax as hell and a capsule filling machine is 20k. Tablet making machine is cheaper. But if you’re not worried about legality, pressing ecstasy pills is a better business lol. But seriously, you can make your own blends of herbs etc according to market demand.
My first software engineering job
Was creating an internal, CRUD app for a utility company. It allowed tasks to be efficiently given to installers based on their locations.

It was a really basic CRUD app, but it increased efficiency dramatically. Insane amounts of value were created.

The repairers were experienced professionals. Some had advanced degrees in EE. But that silly little CRUD app made them exponentially more productive.

They could have been heart surgeons, astronauts, or anything really.
The Home Computer Generation
Tangent: in my experience in a rather hot humid country, until about 2014 or so the AC of European cars here were lousy.

Japanese, Korean, and American cars had noticeably better cooling. The AC of VW, Skoda, Mercedes-Benz, BMW etc were not upto the mark when it comes to cooling.

Could that have been because the country of origin of those cars were generally cold places?

The problem seems to be fixed in newer cars, though some still seem to have issues.

Same deal with windshield wiper speeds; over here it rains heavy during the monsoons (which is a relief from the heat), but the European cars' wipers never go as fast as it ideally should.
It is good for men, but bad for women.
In the US, pre-Dobbs, over 90% of abortions occur before the 13th week. I don't think there's a whole lot of evidence to be found that allowing later-term abortions shifts abortion timelines back. People who get abortions after 22 weeks are generally not doing so on a whim.
I think this is in most cases true, where children are (ab-)used as a justification to reduce freedoms of adults.
And that man...was Albert Einstein.

Might be the oldest "everyone clapped" story I've read
This is an interesting question post-pandemic where the network the laptop is using may be an employees home network, especially if there is some kind of active scanning involved.
I agree. You can make a better case for “writing in a corporate context requires humility,“ e.g., someone choosing to post in public slack channel instead of talking to everyone individually.
Shouldn’t we be artificially limiting the amount of women accepted in order to ensure gender equity? Isn’t this what we normally do, for example to prevent the best Universities from being almost entirely Asian?
You have hit two niches:

- web development SE (there is a bunch of them, but rarely anyone good)

- devops with kubernetes SE (there is few of them and rarely any good)
It's 2021, not 2025. I wonder if this means women are more poised to become breadwinners or if going to university is becoming less correlated with it.
Is that right? I don’t remember 3.51 as being the thing that made OS/2 go away. (I don’t recall ever seeing it and NT 4.0 was also not super-common.) Sure, NT was the right technology to do so, but my recollection is that Windows 95 is what made OS/2 irrelevant due to its widespread and quick growth. Warp 4 came around the same time but didn’t get sufficient traction.

I didn’t have any visibility into the industry at that time so I could be very mistaken.
Many of these harvesters offer data dumps to their products/users as required by California and other laws. They are quite eye opening. However few people ask for it. It may be willful ignorance. So even if you create this, many people won't want to see it and prefer to go on using their coveted brand of phone and apps. You would need to force them to look at it. See the fight scene in They Live.
The drop is due to less demand (my guess would be due to increased automation in the hardware design process). If there was an actual shortage of electrical engineers, salaries would reflect that. In fact, the opposite is the case and Software Engineers are compensated better, reflecting higher demand compared to supply.
I prefer Norvig's "Design of computer programs" over this: https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...

I learned how to build a vocabulary for the problem domain first, and then use the vocabulary to solve the actual problem through this course. Norvig has great examples on bottom-up problem solving approach.
Low water stage marks on hunger stones (2020)
I ran Warp 3 on a 386DX 40Mhz with 8MB of RAM. It wasn’t the fastest thing ever, but I recall it behaving better than Windows 95.

My next computer was a Pentium MMX 166 with 16? 32? MB of RAM and the thing flew there.
Effect of cheese intake on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular biomarkers
This is the reality of "anonymity" on the internet. Whatever promises to be anonymous today will invariably, inevitably, become reconstituted in the long-term.
So, three customers with Teams and three Teams instances? Luckily I have 32 GB of RAM. Maybe I should buy a laptop with 64 /grin
Most electrical engineers I know work as computer programmers.
I think there's a "no true scotsman" fallacy lodged in there somewhere. The fact you even wrote that writing benefits from humility indicates an acknowledgment of good writing is made better by humility, and maybe then we just move the definition of "good" to be requiring of humility.

Someone may be able to write, and get a point across, but it's not just the wording and explanation, it's the capture of the context within the writing, and without humility the context is likely to be distorted, thus negatively effecting the goodness of the writing.
They say they’ll allow me to use it on my phone and tablet while traveling. How incredibly gracious of them.
Hey it worked for Feynman!
I'm more concerned that this data is available for sale in the first place. There should be a limit on the length of location history a telecom can collect for individual phone numbers and that data should never leave the telecom. We need stronger laws.
The new Xbox and PlayStation consoles come with variants without physical media
Women in countries where women are relatively low status get engineering degrees to make money, not to follow their dreams. Women who get degrees for personal fulfillment don't like engineering so much. This results in women getting more engineering degrees in countries where women are lower status.
I really, I mean really, really like the slender ones with the almost white bark, and the limbs that branch off with the skin-like wrinkles on their undersides. The trunks and lower limbs remind me of the human form. And I like the broccoli-like crests of leaves, that while poor at providing shade, are just so doggone stylish.

There are other Eucalyptus trees that are massive and perhaps less attractive, that I still find awe inspiring because of their massive size.

I did not know that they were such a problem in wildfires, despite being born in and living nearly the whole of my life in Southern California. You learn something every day.