skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People really want to force outrage on this, but after enough interaction with the ad (scrolling, clicking, typing) TikTok asks about your experience with the ad.

TikTok is not pretending to have opened your system browser, it goes very far in doing the opposite:

- Hides the normal browser UI

- Replaces every page load with a TikTok spinner

- Permanently places a TikTok header bar over the screen with a report content button tied to TikTok

Combine that with the fact so many people seem to not realize... the only links you can open with the browser are links sold with analytics (ie you can't post arbitrary links as a user commenting) and the outrage just doesn't add up.

A completely non-technical user going through that flow would expect that they're still in TikTok and are using TikTok not their browser
> it is incredibly hard to tell what a company is like until you start working there

Sometimes the dumpster fire is visible right from the interview.
The silliness of the Unplugged Phone was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264372

To echo my comment on that thread, on their website: https://www.unplugged.com/upphone

The security report linked to at the bottom of their home page: https://www.unplugged.com/_files/ugd/d9d118_17133aa11fa944cd...

1. They are selling a "secure" phone, but their only advertised "security audit" is only for their mobile apps.

2. They are testing their mobile apps against a web app standard, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10.

3. On the OWASP website: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ It is only advertised as being the "first step toward changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces more secure code." Conformance does not mean you have achieved security, it means you have just started.

It is frankly hilarious that anybody would believe even a single word of what they claim with respect to security when they are proud of achieving certification to the lowest levels of security in the wrong field.
And now Chapeaumelon is wondering why the sudden surge of the youtube views. Comments are disabled so we cannot even help them to understand :)
Actually, a project called Fauxpilot came out a couple of weeks ago and seems to be gaining steam.

https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot
Beyond that, engineers have different ways of approaching problems and of crafting the code. TDD may actually work great for one engineer, but be terribly disruptive to another. Engineers working in IDEs tend to have a different idea about what constitutes readable code than ones working in basic editors. There is no one way of writing code that is ideal for every coder.
If you want stuff, but the only way to get it is through voluntary trade, it reduces the probability you'll hurt others.
Misbehavior of people in the justice system should be viewed as one of the worst crimes. These people have enormous power over people’s lives and should therefore be held to the highest standards. There are so many cases of detectives falsifying evidence or bribing witnesses, prosecutors hiding evidence and often they get away with this for decades without any consequences.
I don't like this fearmongering about central stimulant treatment of ADHD in children. Stimulant treatment in childhood is the best verified psychiatric treatment we have, period. Long term studies have shown a significant reduction of neurological abnormality and executive dysfunction. Remember, ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Treating it early can be the difference between a good life and a life plagued with comorbidity, unemployment and poor executive function.

Don't be so hasty to condemn kids to this miserable existence based on some vague worries about stimulant psychosis, which is very rare with current treatment protocols and most cases are due to abuse.
I absolutely agree. You're comparing an undemocratic illiberal totalitarian state's violent actions against citizens to the US government giving away vaccines, stopping international travel for a short time, and some states and municipalities mandating the wearing of masks. Nobody was taken to the gulag about it. That's not dystopian.
Firmware can set the power limit to whatever it wants. With the exact same processor, one computer may hit 65 W while a different one is limited to 28 W. There's also huge diminishing utility when it comes to power, so it's possible that the chip is only slightly slower at 28 W than at higher power.
Akai LPK25, but I miss having pitch bend and modulation wheels.
While these things come in waves, I think there has historically been a massive amount of effort and funding by US state agencies to show the CIA, FBI, and/or DoD in a positive light in mass media. Targeted leaks to "safe" journalists, high profile cable TV spots, op-eds that are written by department leaders, etc. That stuff still happens today. I agree that Russia is probably putting money and effort into sowing distrust in US institutions, but I think their capabilities are overrated, especially considering the funding and effort on the other side. Distrust in institutions is a global phenomenon now, with Brexit, Covid, Trump, Euroskepticism, war weariness over Ukraine, etc. But the FBI really doesn't have a great domestic track record and is called out every so often by all sides. Was this post influenced by a Russian campaign? https://twitter.com/aoc/status/953090887613140993
interesting. i've never messed with these options.
> how would Apple know?

I don't think they can. As far as I understand what they blocked was the ability of the Facebook app to send Metadata to the website that the user arrived by the action of clicking an ad. They also blocked the website being able to reply to the Facebook app whether the user bought anything. This way users og Facebook ads aren't able to see whether their ads are effective, which lower the value of them.

In principle Facebook and the website could store these events (ad clicking and item buying) on their own servers, and just synchronize once in a while. I don't know if they are working on this or it already exists.

However, Apple could threaten to kick the Facebook app of the platform if it provides this "service" to advertisers.
> I wish government legislature did this with their bills. Reading a piece of legislation is maddening because it's always just a description of diffs, without seeing the final outcome.

Most governments do maintain a consolidated version of their laws, but that's something different than the bills. Compare it with GitHub: the consolidated version is the head of the repository, while the bills are Pull Requests.

E.g. for the US there's the US code: https://uscode.house.gov/; which for every section has both the text as currently in effect, as well as a list of all historical amendments.
You might try the Federal Register¹, which mostly documents the diffs, but links to the full documents at the Code of Federal Regulations²

¹ https://www.federalregister.gov/

² https://www.ecfr.gov/
Well, its good that "things are working as intended", but I think there's still the open question of what the state of the US economy will look like in 3 to 6 months.

Nothing like terrible mind you, but there are strong questions about interest rates, demand destruction vs inflation, low unemployment (right now anyway), but slowing growth, etc. etc.
Been in the field more-or-less since the late 80s.

There are days, weeks really, when I can't tell you what I've done. The business just chugs along. If I'm gone a day, though, my phone will ring by 10 a.m.
How to detect Log4j vulnerabilities in Java projects for free
When businesses abuse incentives and tip systemic risk into systemic crash, well, that's just the way the world works. When individual borrowers may have a transient opportunity to play games, suddenly folks are hot and bothered about moral hazard.

I'd also note you could flip that argument on its head - more people seeking out unstable lenders would help capitalize them.
University of Michigan library’s Galileo manuscript turns out to be a forgery
It is explained in the article, but not very clearly:

> The JWST isn’t running a web browser where JavaScript directly controls the Mid-Infrared Instrument — it’s more like when a manager is given a list of tasks (in this example, the JavaScripts) to do and delegates them out to their team.

The way I interpret this is that JavaScript programs are used to coordinate missions - meaning, in the script, it is specified what instruments to use and how to configure them. Maybe even a `for` loop to sweep an instrument across a range.

But the instruments themselves don't run JavaScript. Since it's a simple language (at least, compared to the embedded languages the instruments actually run) it presumably makes it easy and safe to configure the satellite. Think of it more as a configuration file written in JavaScript.

You could compare this to video games written in C++ that expose to the user a Lua scripting engine such as World of Warcraft or Garry's Mod.

This comment links to a paper with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738151

> ScriptEase JavaScript allows for a modular design flow, where on-board scripts call lower-level scripts that are defined as functions.

> The script interpreter is run by the flight software, which is written in C++. The flight software operates the spacecraft and the science instruments.

> The flight software will execute
the command sent by the calling on-board script and
return telemetry, which will be evaluated in real-time by
that on-board script. The calling script will then send
status information to a higher-level on-board script,
which contains the logic to skip forward in the
observing plan in response to certain events
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I'm sure there are people who buy a new laptop because it has a better webcam.
Sure but Apple does celebrate its products via Newsroom. Hell they even did it for iTunes in 2004
My point is that the model assumes that you're starting with zero knowledge about the population when you start dating, that's why you need the burn-in phase where you reject everyone to get a good estimate. In reality, I'd think you'd have a pretty decent prior for the population parameters before you even start dating.
>The problem with that narrative is that apple does not apply the same rules to themselves

What do you mean? Apple tracking is optional, they straight up ask when you setup your phone.
This isn't strictly true. Apple has other co-processors and some custom instructions (eg, matrix instructions). If you use their compiler and code, they can offload some calls to these while if you used another compiler and different libraries, these co-processors will be completely unused in all cases.
No. Changing our perceptions of the world does not change the world. If I put on rose colored glasses I change nothing except how I perceive the world, the world stays the same.
They are using the same naming convention Intel uses for their machines where the small core do not count as core but as thread.
Just the title in itself is false. They are not a political prisoner. Maybe search up the case on Pacer and do your own research.
Why use/make processors with numa if you have to go to all this trouble not to use it?
Yep I tend to be more on the spectrum of focusing on code & architecture quality over raw productivity, and I find the "plow through it and get it done" engineer to be the perfect foil to have on my team.

Ultimately it gets done faster than it would if the whole team was my personality, but with higher quality than if the whole team was their personality.
If you can get out of bed and have a social drink,you're probably pretty healthy to begin with.

My understanding is that more modern research has unambiguously debunked the "light drinking" assertions.

But this is not something I'd expect you to be convinced of, because I don't have hard evidence on hand. We will have to leave it there, and I will go refresh my understanding some other time, if you will too :)
Operating a business with a single point of failure is never wise.
Something can include facts but also extremely misleading. This "pro Trump" State Senator who the GP website is going to bat for was arrested for crimes he committed long before Trump was elected -- the kickbacks took place from 2012 - 2016, and his co-conspirators were other former State Senators who ratted him out. The FBI was interviewing his co-conspirators in October 2015 which is ~9 months before Trump won the GOP nomination and over a year before he was elected.

Tying 2015 activity by the Missouri field office of the FBI to some sort of FBI vendetta against people who supported Trump is the dumbest thing I've read in awhile, which is generally why nobody should read the Gateway Pundit.
Ask HN: Tricks to disconnect from work while on vacation
Lately, I'm finding it particularly difficult to disconnect from work. I've tried deleting work apps from my phone, but I still find myself reinstalling them to check something.

It's particularly annoying since I really want to disconnect and rest.

What are your best tricks? Do you have any particular routine during holidays that allows you to completely forget about work?
Let's say a chemical is found to cause cancer (outside of the state of California), then Walmart pulls all offending products from the shelves. Would you say Walmart is "crushing" these manufacturing businesses, or would you say Walmart is keeping their customers safe?
Sure, but if you overdo your campaign to prevent shaming (and I can say what happens now in US is definitely in that territory for quite some time), than even a slightest hint that obesity is something bad and should be actually worked on to get rid of becomes shamed too.

Then it becomes (well, became) the next taboo that nobody wants to touch with a 10 feet pole since its playing with a PR suicide.

And so we have the world we have, and we reached it step by step by exactly this logic. Simple thing is, fat people need help from society just like drug addicts, yet everybody desperately tries to avoid this framing, and thus help is often not deemed necessary/worth the risk of offending. Thus people die needlessly just that somebody doesn't have hurt feelings.
Another book in the same vein but much lesser known is This Perfect Day by Ira Levin. Recommended.
> the balance of the evidence weighed against the alleged exculpatory evidence

Surely you see the fundamental problem, here. This shifts the burden of proof onto the defendant. Demonstrating the previous existence and, in particular, the exculpatory nature of destroyed evidence is practically impossible.

If the state directly conspires to an unfair trial, the state’s case must be forfeit.
This implies collecting data for ad personalization is the only means through each Apple tracks you, which clearly isn't the case [1]. Some interesting keypoints posted here before: [2]

As it currently stands, there is no way to "opt out" of being tracked by Apple.

[1] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Here’s a little refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...

That’s also an oversimplification of what’s known about the Whitney plot, too. The state and second federal trial are still pending:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...
Those are very hard to achieve though for some non-trivial C code.
I don't think 'type unsafe' is the only way to enable decoupling. For adding new commands, it can be done in a pretty type safe way. The problem is that the `ICommandHandler` may be used in a lot of places expecting different parameters, so they try to simplify the interface by using `any` as the parameter type.

> Static typing is really a form of testing

No! Static typing is not a form of testing. Static typing or static analysis, is an approximation of you program behavior, because it is undecidable in general. Depending on the properties of the type system, you can guarantee that you program doesn't go wrong if it is well-typed, where the definition of 'go wrong' depends on the type system. On the contrary, testing can check the behavior of your program with respect to a set of inputs, and it doesn't guarantee anything outside that set of input. You are doing state partitioning by doing a static analysis over your code to determine what tests you may need, and test some of them.
Black lives matter, the term, is a reminder that black lives do indeed matter, because black lives sure seem disposable or a means to an end way too often, imo, lapses in applicable humanism. Its not discounting the lives of anyone else of any other skin color, ethnicity or creed.
https://datafetcher.com/blog/screenshots-from-urls-in-airtab...
In my view they really were acting politically one president ago. Just read the wikipedia on James Comey. It's pretty difficult to argue that he wasn't using his position for a political agenda with every action while the Director of the FBI.
But do they really need an entire operating system for what amounts to simply copying around chunks of data? I think they could've gone for some slim RTOS-ish solution instead: no user-mode, no drivers, bare minimum.
>It's The Gateway Pundit, there's nothing wrong with them.

There is actually a great deal wrong with them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit#False_stori...
Would it be possible to get some examples of these scripts?
Here's what the court ultimately ruled on appeal

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca8/18...

In otherwords, the evidence wasn't strong enough to overturn the conviction and was available through other means.
Pretty cool that this work exists.

I'd love a more direct and comparative benchmark set though e.g. Apple M2 on macOS vs. Ryzen Pro 6850 on Linux, and with at least identical RAM.

To me Apple M1 (and maybe M2, have not checked it out yet) remains an absolute leader in performance per watt. Combine the amazing displays and it's almost not a contest. Of course, like every programmer I started getting irritated by macOS because a lot of tinkering and experimentation is simply not possible there.

I really hope for at least comparable Linux competitor. Even being behind the M1/M2 with 30% for the same power envelope would be a huge win.
With regard to recipes, I sometimes wonder if "round numbers" are causing us to miss out on more optimal recipes. Maybe that dish really would turn out better cooked at 176F, or with 1 and 7/16 cups of flour instead of 1.5.
Or, heaven forbid, allow the uset to control the focus themselves.
Small business were also crushed when the FDA started requiring clinical trials before you could market your drugs. The assumption here is that the needs of small businesses trumps any ethical or moral concerns. We shouldn't have prop up Big Brother so that little Johnny can sell graphic t-shirts.
Honestly? I'll take it in a "broken clock is right twice a day" sort of way. I'm glad there's support for reforming the FBI from idiots as well as reasonable people now. The only downsides are the people that automatically take the opposite position of the idiots even when what the idiots are arguing for is correct (by accident).
> even 4U rack

Supermicro builds some workstations[0] which were quite quiet back in Xeon 5xxx days.

[0] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/x11/systems/workstati... be sure to check for the 'quiet fans', not the 'heavy duty' ones!
I understand, but doesn't a wiped drive create reasonable doubt? Maybe there isn't even the need for a special law about this, just use reasonable doubt. I also have the feeling that there already are laws/case law about what to do in case of illegally destroyed (potential) evidence, we just don't know about it because we're not lawyers.
> Does your team encourage the use of SOLID and DRY design principles to avoid cyclomatic complexity?

Whenever someone brings up SOLID in their resume or an interview I ask them to explain the L. So far it’s 0 for 3 this year.

In this case I would also ask them to define “cyclomatic complexity” in a way this question makes sense, because it’s only weakly correlated with either of those.
If you manage one person you get all the overhead of managing people but only the productivity of one person. Same for offshoring. My company has people in India so we often get one or two persons added to the team. This produces enormous overhead due difficulty of communication over a 12h time difference but we still get omit the work of two people. It would be way more efficient to have ten people there so the overhead is worth it.
Yes, in the article it says "Nombas ScriptEase 5.00e"
They already won: their mortgage requires a big haircut to sell off because their rate is so far below market.
It's a decent device for testing and demos, but the keys are stiff.
Don't bother reading about it, then. You'll just find confirmation for what you already believe.
Unless they are hosted by people in countries unfriendly with the US, in which case good luck.
> But are they priced similarly?

Final laptop price isn't that important when this is a CPU comparison, "Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U"

> Hmm .. Doesn't "for both" negate the argument.

What I meant is that they don't use the OS which is most stable and most mature on each platform independently (i.e. some flavour of linux, or even windows, for the Ryzen and macOS for the M2). Either choice will introduce OS differences, but I believe that using the most optimized OS is the better choice as it allows each CPU to show off its best performance.
Self taught guitarist here as well, and it's fascinating to see another person having such a similar experience as me! Usually people look at me in confusion when I say this stuff.
They're just ignoring the efficiency cores. They are definitely there.
Why does it both you so much that other people have fun in a way you don't like?
Because apps more access and more power to track and ruin your day than PWAs do.
Wouldn't buyers seeking out unstable lenders discourage stable lenders? Because buyers would prefer their competitors?
makes my blood boil.
The point is that for individual lifestyle decisions you can't take a reductionist approach and look at individual factors in isolation. Maybe moderate sunlight exposure causes DNA damage, but so what? Does it actually reduce lifespan (or healthspan)? Probably not, or at least we don't have any reliable evidence that it does.
meh. before offering your hot takes on how Mr. Woods was the victim of governmental overreach, maybe read this... https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-woods-260
Watercoolers Are an Anti-Pattern
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