skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other thought I had regarding this - how about sites like 'github'? It's not that much different to be able to create a public repositories with blog-like content. Is github a pipe? If github were a pipe, then they couldn't moderate illegal content based on the point of view that "all software should be free" or the point of view that "viruses are useful and necessary to find and exploit security holes, otherwise those security holes do not get found nor fixed." Both of those points of view are, points of view (perhaps with some flaws, but nonetheless, they are points of view). Then.. if github were forced to host almost whatever content, they seemingly could become another 'pirate-bay'.

I suspect the 'is it a pipe' or 'is it a bar' question is perhaps easier to look at via 'proof-by-contradiction' when examining other large websites and services that are not so dissimilar.

Another thought, what if a private company wanted to not be a pipe, or what if they actually wanted to be a pipe. Let's say someone had a product launch that was intended and was for all purposes a pipe - though they "couldn't" be because of a user requirement. That seems odd, seems like whether you are a 'pipe' or a 'bar' could be stated in a prospectus and would not need to be a function at all of user count (but instead a function of services provided and how they are provided). In another example, a new phone carrier, just because they are small, would still be a pipe.
Vivaldi, uBO, Pihole. I feel pretty safe online.
Out of curiosity, how do you run yours?
Thank you for following up with links - I'll check them out!
"Using information from leaked company documents, Forbes matched the street addresses of dozens of Helium insiders named on an internal “family and friends” list with GPS coordinates tied to hotspots that were distributed in the months after the project launched in 2019. These documents contained information such as names, work emails and home addresses. Then, after cross-referencing those addresses with property records, information from Helium’s public blockchain revealed how many tokens were earned by each of those hotspots.

For example, a hotspot linked to Haleem’s wife displayed the coordinates of a California home the couple owned, according to a property records search. Five hotspots connected to this wallet mined 250,000 HNT in the first three months of the network’s inception, according to blockchain data. The wallet has earned a total 455,000 HNT from mining rewards, worth $25 million at HNT’s peak price, and $2 million today. It is unclear when or if Haleem sold those tokens; he declined to comment."

This is a solid piece of journalism. The truncated HN title does it a disservice.
Most of what burns is federal land.
Which is why in Europe the pay is 4 times less. The risk has to be somewhere
Android has a notification now when the mic is recording and has had the ability to deny microphone and lots of other access for a long time now. Thankfully it sounds like iOS is catching up
I guess I really should just set one up shouldn't I...
Why? You can't call them on the phone, or text them? Or email them? There's plenty of other open systems around.
I sense there's a bit of a crisis with top tech firms. They cannot afford to keep paying the wages the tech market demands. Costs must come down. It's feels things are reaching a tipping point.
Hm, it sure does. Not premeditated, I swear. All I do/did is broadly average the outcome from a wide array of inputs.
Not Google specifically, but in general:

1. Some people are excessively (IMO) attracted to swag and taking away any benefit, however minor, often attracts outsized opposition.

2. Especially people who aren't on the road most of the time, find a trip to an event a nice change of pace and an opportunity to develop professional connections both within your own company and elsewhere. There is business value but it's also often viewed as a significant perk.

3. Well, Pichai has made statements at least suggestive of staffing cuts. And even if there's some trueing up going on with RSUs, I expect a lot of employees used to getting a lot of their comp in stock in a rising market are looking at effectively significant cuts to their TC.
Back in college, two of my friends went to a CIA recruiting event. One friend was a native Farsi speaker and the other was born in Korea. Both came back dejected because the recruiter said they could not apply until at least a year had passed since they last smoked marijuana. Both ended up going to law school instead; few years after our graduation, Iran and North Korea made surprising (to U.S. intelligence) advances in their nuclear programs.

Think of all the resources we lose every year because of the stupid federal prohibition of weed.
That's async calling sync. But if you're in sync and the only option is to call an async library because the author didn't want to make two versions then you have to pull in the async runtime as well.

Not everyone wants to pull in an async runtime just to run make a call to an API.

My whole point is async puts a huge burden on library authors that will force users to diverge in their approaches and that will ultimately hurt the community
We should, though I don't think Scotland or NI will be allowed to leave this shitty party, "misery loves company" is the UK motto.

Realistically, we have to wait at least another decade for a generation of crazies to die off. Then we can try and be a country again.

Not many people know, but when we first tried to join the EU (then the European Communities), our application was veto'd twice by France. Having been proven right about us, I am not sure they'd let us in again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_membership_of_t....
I think the exception is Omar. I don’t see Omar as corrupt. I think many people see him as one of the “good” ones, relatively speaking. He didn’t move around what he was and what he was about. He stayed completely true to it. He didn’t have a larger institution as you say. He was his own institution.
the period of questionable CGI and campiness is over? Have you seen the never ending churn out of marvel "movies"?
I have to add Django and Postgres to this. Both rock solid, stable, but still staying up to date and improving without being trend-driven.
Music version is amazing: https://incoherency.co.uk/nightdrive/
I was surprised by how many people go out on very bad air days without taking precautions.

We had a couple days or so here (Puget Sound area of Washington) with the AQI somewhere in the 150-200 range. I needed to go shopping on one of those days. I stepped outside and took a couple of breaths just to check how bad it was. It was terrible. I then put on a KN95 mask which made it a lot better and went to do my shopping.

Almost no one else I saw was wearing a mask.

When masks were still required for COVID around 98% of people I saw while shopping were wearing masks, so I'm pretty sure a majority here still have masks leftover from that.

Does it just not occur to them that those masks also help with wildfire smoke?
Automated testing is great! More game developers should get serious about using it, even if you're not doing full coverage unit testing like business software.
Show HN: Use Screen Sharing to capture anything, search with CLIP in JavaScript
You're rating massive swaths of Verizon FIOS home internet fiber with static IP addresses as zero threat, high risk.
You absolutely can read news from 10 even 20 even 100 years ago.

One example: https://news.google.com/newspapers

I think you forget or may not have grown up with the microfiche.

The reality of the internet is that everyone has a voice and things will only be archived if someone gives a damn to archive them. And that's fine. Some information deserves to be transient. Hell, we've survived millennia without this level of information storage. Does every single YouTube video, Reddit post, and Flickr photo really need to live forever? No. Would it be nice? Sure.
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Looking forward to it! Please tag me at twitter.com/zachlloydtweets - i'd love to read and respond
I'm fairly confident that about 99+% of people that actually do anti-government shit have ever had the opportunity to use Google Voice or set up a Twilio number. (And one of the reasons for that is that these are mostly US & friends only services.)
No – to himself. Not a speech. As per the linked site where it reads:

> Email from Steve Jobs to himself
> 2010
>
> Steve often sent himself messages to capture what was on his mind.
It would not need to record high quality audio and could maybe even take advantage of that same chip? Just thinking out loud here - smaller, crappier audio would also be easier to send back unnoticed (or instead of even recording audio it could be transcribing on the fly to a text file using something super basic and easy with low accuracy)
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Given that 99% of mask use was signaling, it might really not occur to most people that they actually have some effective use.
What do you mean by "make it work"? They've raised 4.5M last year, did they just burn through that?
That's not possible without permissions these days, same as iOS. In Android 13, background processes have no mic or camera access whatsoever.
This is available for any game since 2019, here’s an article talking about it: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2019-nintendo-switc...
The money would probably come from Iranians outside Iran.
Yeah, and it's even worse because FBI, NSA, etc. lose thousands of potential recruits every year because of the weed ban.
React Mosaic
Ah yes, Steve Jobs, the CEO and entrepreneur widely known for his lack of taste and aesthetic sense.
If he spends more time on this project I bet he will turn it into a full-fledged pc game.
Funny - the first time I tried it didn’t catch. Felt ‘meh’ after 1.5 episodes. Then went back and tried again and have watched the entire run twice and consider myself a big fan.
The world is full of ‘should’s but most of them are just constructs.
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How to Fix the Internet – Ethics in CS
Right. The show is even conservative, by some measures: the police are generally shown deference by the show's writers (even when individual cops are openly characterized negatively).
I got a laugh out of this [1] comment yesterday and was considering how it
applied here. I don't necessarily think that the methodology is garbage, but I
would question the ability of science to contribute useful information here

> they asked people on their iPhones: Who are you with? What are you doing? And how happy are you, 0 to 100? And they built this chart, a happiness activity chart.

... basically, this study "proves" that people say they're happy when they're
having sex, in a comfortable environment, or enjoying good community and are
unhappy when they are "doom-scrolling". I don't doubt the integrity of the
researchers or that the study is reproducable, but I'm confused who this study
is for.

Are scientists just now figuring out that there is a discrepancy between what
people KNOW is good for them and what they actually do? If not, what business do they have pretending to make scientific pronouncements as if they were impartial researchers who genuinely considered the opposite possibility?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32941889
Maybe it's just one pull request away...
It's absurd how similar data is, how generic it is, but how arbitrary interfaces formats protocols and other layers impede cross-functioning. So much resistance, so much impedance!

It fizzled & failed (also got replaced by the web & APIs) but OLE/COM and CORBA, those were interesting historical junctures where we expected computing as a whole to weave together better. All is one!

I love this project. Makes perfect sense. Hell yes I want a sheet for each resource & to be able to edit it.
Well, when I was in kindergarten, I very much knew my teacher had a spouse, had twins, and she was pregnant at the time.

Would it have been inappropriate if she said her and her husband was having a baby? In todays society would it have been in appropriate if she said her and her wife? How do you think these same conservatives would have felt if little Johnny came home and mentioned to their parents that their teacher spoke about her wife?
I highly recommend it to anyone considering it.

But, pro-tip, use a machine that has an ssd (or other real) drive. Having your network DNS go down because of a bad or corrupted sd card will drive you bonkers.

Sincerely,
Bonkers
This happend in France last summer a few times. Control fires got completely out of hand and turned into full apocalypse wild fires.

Turns out that fire is hard to manage...
These seem like cool tech and I know things like proxmox can run them pretty easily.

Still Dockerfiles and all the magic that goes with them was just so much easier to pick up and convince others on the team to try.
> The plan

> Kidding, I don't have a plan.

:|
Fully agree that he can't assemble combat divisions, or anything close. But given that he has lots of bodies and fuel, I think he has the capacity to move units around on the map all winter, while keeping planners, analysts and pundits busy.

This will be miserable for the conscripts (who are allegedly being issued with decades-old equipment and might not even have proper winter uniforms & boots) but even if it's pure stagecraft that would help to rebuild logistic expertise and confidence.
How did she buy the puzzle to begin with.
This is not simple. The batteries in cars can be used to help load-balance but they cannot offer grid-scale storage.

The following is back-of-napkin figures but there are close enough to make the point.

Take a country the size of the UK. It currently uses 1600 TWh a year. Once fully-electric it should need around 1100 TWh a year, so 3 TWh a day.

The UK, despite being a windy place, still has weeks without wind once or twice a year. We had a week without wind power in the middle of August this year and had to generate 60% of our power using gas. A windless week with a frost snap is something you often see in January and February. A cold week, with everyone using electric heating (when solar power does basically nothing) is why the UK might need TWh of stored energy to be secure without fossil fuels.

7 days at 3 TWh is 20 TWh.

A big home Tesla Powerwall can store 14kWh and if run at full power it will be empty in 4 hrs. You'd need over a billion to store 20TWh.

In the UK an average home currently uses around 10kW of electricity a day, but also has a car, a cooker and central heating, all using fossil fuels. Add those in and were looking at 40-50kWh: 20kWh for the heating, 10kWh for the cooking and another 10kWh for the cars.

There are savings to be made of course, the electric versions of all of those items are way more efficient. There's insulation; there's heat pumps; there's electric cars.

The average UK car sits idle for 23 hours of the day. An average-ish car is around 100kW. Even if that hour is slow and often stationary, it's not unreasonable to expect it to be another 10kWh. And the average UK home has more than one car.

A mid-range electric car has a 50kWh battery, so has a bit more beef than a Tesla Powerwall battery. If they are being used for 1 hour a day they are probably going to need a top-up of around, say, 10kW. So let's say they have 40 kWh to spare.

20 TWh / 40 kWh = 500 million cars.

There are only 33 million cars in the UK.

You can, of course, quibble with these figures. There's subtleties everywhere here, but the orders of magnitude are plain. We need to be able to store renewable energy—desperately, and in enormous amounts. Car batteries will help—no doubt—but more in load-balancing and smoothing rather than long-term storage. We need something like grid-scale hydrogen storage to solve this.

See here for 1100 TWh figure. This document has loads of other really interesting details too:

https://www.nationalgrideso.com/document/264421/download
There are only ~368 grains of sand per ant?
I have a strong sentiment for users that use standards without optimizing anything they are either just really focused on their work or totally unorganized both have their charms.
There are numerous cases of changes to "sexual orientation".
Even with end to end encryption couldnt the app at the end also be just aggregating the data (or even transcribing audio) to send over separately?
Emacs has a mail reader.

Why would anyone want a mail reader in their editor. /s
Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU
Hello,
I am experienced software developer working on enterprise software in eastern Europe country. With rising inflation and stagnant local salaries it's getting harder to afford a decent standard of living. I am looking at these jaw dropping US salaries, even 60k/yr would put me among top 3% earners in my county. Browsing US job boards I find many remote contract based and salaried positions but they are all looking for US based employees.
Are there any fellow Europe based software engineers who work remotely for US companies and could share advice about landing such jobs?
> Edit: Holy fuck there are (paid?) Facebook shills all over this like flies on shit.

From the HN guidelines: [0]

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He also got a whole bunch of discovery and the right to release much of that publicly, which is a pretty huge win given that those docs revealed explicit US Govt censorship pressure direct from the White House.
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It's somewhat of a chicken and egg sort of thing. If some segment of your workforce seems to have high turnover in spite of efforts to retain people, maybe it makes sense to stop trying so hard and accept that it's just a market dynamic.
Back in the day, a friend of my father consumed an entire bottle of cognac the evening before his physical for Vietnam.

Ended up with a running pulse, weird blood pressure and the sweats, and was rejected as 4F.

I can only imagine the same behavior now would get your into some ROTC training course in Moscow.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
There was tons of complaining when Safari adopted those restrictions with the same claims and fears that ad blockers were dead forever.
So you just remember the relevant UBs defined in the C standard:

https://gist.github.com/Earnestly/7c903f481ff9d29a3dd1

There are not that many UBs in the base language. And even fewer are relevant for day to day coding. Most of it is in the std library.
I know the norm when I read an article more than a year or two old that has tons of YouTube embeds is for most or all of them to show a "video gone" error. Sometimes even ones that are weeks old are like that.

It seems to be at least as bad as the rest of the web as far as data/link rot goes.
Ask HN: How to Ensure Correct Encryption?
Hi,
I'm writing my own encryption/decryption tool as an exercise. I'm using separate, audited RSA library for actual encryption but everything else is on me.
On my machine I have some ordinary RAM (not ECC) and a file system without error correction. So I'm trying to think what can go wrong:
1. A key gets corrupted in memory (through cosmic ray or memory error).
2. A key can be read from the disk with error.
3. File can be saved with an error.

My ideas to solve it:
Ad 1. Have two keys in memory and compare them before encrypting each file.
Ad 2. Some sort of checksum (I assume that public key has no such thing).
Ad 3. The only thing I can think of: after encryption compare with "valid" (probably encrypt again and compare).

Can you think of anything else?
Middle manager bosses can shampoo my crotch
I mostly hate social media. But we'd also lose useful things. Such as the discussion board we're currently on. Or the treasure trove of educational and funny content on YouTube. Watching puppy videos is amazing for my mental health. It would be a shame for it to be drowned in spam.
I get those emails but I didn't attempt to login. Instead it's some messer who hit the 'forgot password' link and is trying to break into my account. As if doing that will get them in since they need, you know, a password and access to my email.
I missed that passport got autocorrected to password. More or less the process is described above: you send the initial request anonymous, so the IP is used to presume your nationality. We, the portal, would have contracts with different providers, who would in turn have contracts with the hotels - we didn’t deal with hotels directly. We had almost 40 such providers if I remember correctly. Each of these providers had an API. The search of the user would be against those APIs.

So, let’s jump to the step where you found your hotel and you want to book. We would pre-reserve the room and you would get a screen where you had to input your data and pay. Among the data, you would be asked about your passport or travel documents and you would have to select the country that issued the document. Upon send, we would send an API request to confirm the booking, but if the portal didn’t like your actual nationality, it would reply that the room is no longer available. We would then have to tell you to start the search again, but this time tell the portals your actual nationality. They would either choose to give you the room at a higher price or not at all.

Anecdotally, Booking does the same thing. I don’t know if with higher prices but definitely with availability. We had hotels show availability for my account where the address is in Germany but not on my wife’s, where the address is in Romania.

My best anecdote is when we were transiting Hungary and booked an apartment in Budapest with my account. We would get there after the reception closed because of traffic so we called and ask what we can do. The lady says that we can send copies of our passports per email and she would check us in and leave the key with the building’s security guard. We send her our Romanian passports and in less than 15 minutes receive a reply that the apartment is no longer available because a pipe burst in there (presumably the pipe burst after finding out Romanians will stay there for the night)
Instagram is especially malicious with this - it is the only app that REQUIRES access to my microphone for me to post something. They try to do this by having a camera inside instagram (that you can record with which would obviously require mic access) but even to post stuff I have already taken (even just photos) it wants mic access. I usually temporarily give it what it wants, post, then remove again.
I'm very skeptical that these sorts of prosecutions are carried out without bias.

> Last year, Christian Endt, a journalist in Berlin whose coverage of Covid drew a steady stream of insults online, reached a breaking point. After an anonymous Twitter user had called him “stupid” and mentally ill, he embarked on a mission to see if he could get the person prosecuted.

I really wonder how many people who called anti-lockdown users "stupid" and mentally ill got prosecuted. In practice, this laws end up privileging one "correct" opinion over others.
Don’t fix what isn’t broken is tough, because broken is debatable.

Is your stable Univac mainframe application broken? Operationally, probably not. But your business cannot adapt becuase it relies on a platform for which everyone who knows it is dead.
Can anyone here give quick example how would how this on a server already having Apache on port 80 and 443? Can this be proxies through Apache?
Agreed. It is flourishing largely as a function of the simplicity of setup/production...