skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite problem: after signing up for Lyft, it made me "verify my payment method" by adding a second payment method with the same address. My second payment method had the same problem, and the only option left was to directly connect a bank account, which I didn't want to do. Uber took my credit card without a problem.

...anyway, fraud detection is largely anecdotal.
AWS recently added the organizations:CloseAccount API (albeit with some caveats discussed elsewhere in this comment tree).
I bought an old used Buffalo TeraStation like this[1] and followed online directions for getting a generic Debian install on it. Its intended use is a NAS so in addition to running my Linux services, it can act as my media server, too. You can probably still get them at a bargain (~$100) from ebay.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-TeraStation-Network-Attached-...
> strive to make the world a better place

Are you sure that is the motive?
It's pretty easy to build, and flash your own firmware based off of the factory firmware. They talked about having a plugin system at some point so you can, say, add a "calculator" app by just building a calculator binary and sending it over (instead of having to build an entire firmware with the calculator app built in to it) but I don't think that's implemented yet
The wife of his labmate got bored of her current partner and instead went for someone less boring?
You seem to say that as if it were the only way to build an audience. There have been disruptors and innovators out there long before targeted advertising became a thing.

Targeted ads gave us none of the things you mentioned, it merely gave them highly-effective ad targeting. But a company can still buy TV ad spots, they can still spread via word-of-mouth or grassroots campaigns, they can still hire people to canvas and pitch, nowadays they can still go viral.

I agree with GP that ads are manipulation, and that we cannot give ad people (or any people, really) tools that are too good in this area.

Literally every big company in existence today started small, disrupting or innovating or just effectively competing at something. Yet somehow they managed to become what they are without targeted advertising?
So... microplastics?
In a world where TI had been able to get a foothold with hobbyists on the beaglebone, the world might be very different. TI doesn't hate small-volume sales like Broadcom.

The hobbyist market has weirdly strong network effects: we saw this with Arduino, too, which was a lot more expensive than its competitors! I assume there is a measure of influencer marketing here that old-guard tech companies didn't grasp.

10 years ago, the beagleboard was a game changer, though. They are still making beaglebones and beagleboards, both of which are cool, but they are last-generation computers with lots of useful embedded SoC features, while the Pi is a computer first.
The trick is to avoid becoming that developer.
I think what makes it worse is the "No, piss off" attitude of their forum team when anyone asks for an update, followed by locking the thread.
Some PHEVs force the engine to run until it's warm before allowing it to sleep. And if you need to run the AC or heating, it also requires the ICE to be on.
>You seem to entirely discount the fact that sometimes the journey is just as important.

I don't. I very much acknowledge that the PS3 was a very novel piece of hardware, but the same doesn't apply to consoles in general.

>And who's to say people experimenting with the PS5 won't be creating something new we'll be talking about in 10 years? These are powerful machines, why artificially restrict what they can do?

They might, no doubt. But there's nothing novel about developing on a PS5, at least the original Xbox offered a unique form factor in its price bracket.

>Homebrew alone gives people ways to play with hardware they wouldn't normally be able to experiment with.

Yes, but PS5 hardware is just regular PC hardware. It's not exotic and exciting like the PS3 or Xbox were.

>~5k active participants in the Insignia community is more than a handful. Sure, it's not hundreds of thousands but it's not exactly public yet either. And there are thousands in similar communities for the PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii to name a few. Either way, these communities directly demonstrate that jailbreaking hardware does indeed extend a console's lifetime.

These are communities consisting of some thousands of people, but we're talking about hardware that sells 100+ million units.
I did the other way round. After 5 years in Tesco warehouse somewhere in the UK, I went back to Poland to learn web development. Picking jobs are cruel, I'd advise anyone against taking it and trying hardest they can to avoid it. It gives you problems with your back, your legs, gets you bored about life. You get back home physically tired and mentally numb each freaking day, that's because you wear your arse out there forced to ignore any safety rules just to get on time with all tasks and you still get some angry manager calling you every now and then because his managers always push him to achieve more 'picks/hour'.
If you see warehouse job ad - run.
I have a friend who works in finance at a huge bank. He makes a killing, but absolutely despises his job. His stated goal is to make enough to retire early (we're ~40 now, so soon-ish) and then work part time at a hardware store just for something to do. Pretty much for the reasons you said, meet people, low responsibility and stress, the job ends when you punch out.

I think I'd get bored pretty quick, but I do understand where you're coming from.
it's not really personal data but i've seen a few times in recent years how easy it is to get all the details you want about your competitors' adsense campaigns & strategies if you know someone who work in the right departement at Google.
Not to mention the perverse association you develop with the computer being a requirement for getting work done. My dopamine is so tied to ticking off boxes by finishing computer work that tasks like cleaning the kitchen have an empty feeling.
> But results about matches don't stay on the phone

Results about matches aren’t ever on the phone in the first place. Only the server can determine if there are any matches.
Its between 8/9k pop. The ward in which i live has fewer than 400 voters

> 10k is about one tenth of the population per Member of Parliament in the U.K.

City of London shares a constituency with Westminster "Two Cities"
Devs can get by working few hours a day, some barely do any work at all

Not sure how others here feel, but I have to say that when I've found myself in situations where there isn't much work to be done I find it utterly soul destroying.

Always feel guilty doing anything else in down-time when I'm billing a client and so sometimes end up sitting in a weird stand by mode, feeling like I'm somehow being lazy.
> I'm not exactly sure of it's utility...seems kinda heavy weight to just be setting recommended configurations?

According to the email linked in your sibling, that's exactly why it's a separate command in /contrib and not integrated into git proper.
https://archive.ph/EMsza
It's easy to kick up at the US and its spectacularly disreputable IC, but it's worth recognizing that totalitarianism is a virus that preys on the morally weak and subordinates them to dissolving their own socities and cultures. These movements operate as trivial pyramid schemes of betrayal and suffering, and that's what makes them stupid enough to scale. The communist flavour of these movements is by every measure as evil as the nazi one the allies had only just defeated, and a few extra casulties against its instigators to prevent them from taking hold and instituting their policies of mass starvation, mass imprisonment in labour camps, confiscation, and executions seems like an act of both charity and mercy.

I don't see how anyone who laughed and cheered watching the movie Inglourious Basterds (which was undeniably fun) could really object to any similar operation against the vanguard of their communist equivalents. The countries that failed to stop the expansion of that movement are remembered for their killing fields, their famines, their mass executions of people trying to leave, their national bankruptcies, and their meth dealing god emperors.
>Worse you cant just hum or whistle the tune into some app and have it tell you the song.

I've had reasonable luck with folktunefinder, not for humming, but for tapping in a snippet as notes or a rhythm.
Nuclear Tourism in 1950s Las Vegas
An exceptionally unusual line about names and burials and a fairly unusual name associated with a burial in one of the only churches the Beatles are likely to have spent much time hanging around?

(Throw in the fact that Lennon claimed to have written a lot of the song, which meant McCartney who disagreed with that claim had a lot of reason to make up an alternative story if he couldn't remember where the name or line came from...)

I passed a narrowboat called Eleanor with the location it's based in (Rugby) painted below the name (it's from the Aintree Beetle range too... ) a month or two back. If the owner told me he'd named his boat Eleanor because of a film star, and coincidentally decided to moor it at Rugby some time later, I wouldn't believe him :)
you mean demand from governments.
You can buy a Raspberry Pi – if you are an OEM and are using the board in a commercial product. It is simply not for hobbyists anymore.
It depends on the anti-cheat systems. Some games are significantly easier to cheat in than others for rather obvious reasons. Anti-cheat has a very hard problem in that you're shipping your binary to an obviously-hostile environment where people will do anything and then some to get the upper hand.

If you attended Kernel and Hardware hacking courses at security trainings, you're likely sitting next to either some cheat developers, or some anti-cheat team members.
Google finds culture, not tech, is biggest predictor of DevOps security outcomes
I think limiting them is a good idea--you have to be selective about who you approach rather than using a shotgun. However, I think there should be a left/right/maybe system. (Perhaps there is--I've been off the market since before apps were a thing.)
I think you need to stop watching CNN if magma is turning into MAGA lol
The Case for Theft-Tanks
Lending out digital copies of your physical books - fine.

Working with other libraries to lend out digital copies for ALL their physical books - fine.

Crossing the line into supposedly "justifiable piracy because Covid" - not fine.

At least that's how I see it.
I'm still surprised at the apparently unanimous disinterest in a tabular format for data serialization languages. XiMpLe took me way too long to find. I can't recall if it works on YAML, though. But it removes a lot of the headaches for me.
"Support." Wake me up when one of the Rpi boards starts supporting basics like suspend to RAM.
It's not propaganda, it's a perspective. He's pretty involved in activism on the behalf of trades work, not just the mouthpiece of some think tank ad campaign.
Unfortunately they ship in a deep sleep state where the P2P Tamagotchi/Streetpass style features won't work
Outside the US here. Not heard of venmo. I think in Australia throwing a CC on Apple Pay is going to be the most popular mobile payment "app" (although it doesn't need an app, it is very seemless. It is too good! Too little friction to buy stuff)
Materialize itself is under a BSL license that makes every commit automatically convert to open source four years after it lands.
How is race relevant to HSA accounts?
How Does Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Differ from IAM?
Off-gridders take energy needs into their own hands
because 'knowledge' on its own will not work to wield power over others just by itself. there are other ingredients in ensuring that knowledge can be used as power; these usually look like 'technology'.

I should also say that it's only due to the internet (and its novel aggregation-theory dynamics) that these old attitudes I am ranting against become truly noxious.
Yes and we are all aware of that. Are you saying that his experience and blog cause harm to those people who have to do it?
There's been countless posts about Amazon warehouse conditions on Hackernews and other news sources.
No differently to the previous way of doing stacked PRs? There's no getting around the fact that you're force-pushing a new version of each branch in the stack.

This just automates the previously-manual process of checking out branch2 and rebasing it to point to branch1, instead of pointing to the commit that branch1 referenced pre-rebase.
git is decentralized, so I don’t think this should be part of the tool itself.
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I agree there are probably no 10x devs. This person took 7 days to (almost) complete this task (which they cherry picked for their self), suggesting the average 1x dev with experience in this domain would take 70 days.

I think it would be more reasonable to call someone a 3 -sigma dev (someone 3 standard deviations above the mean. These would exist because that's how stats work)
Fun fact: the original word used for 'advertising' was 'propaganda', and advertising uses several propaganda techniques. There's nothing cynical about that, it's just a fact.
That UX is atrocious.

Substrate [1] instead presents you with a list of all your accounts with a link to assume your role in that account in the AWS Console (and parallel tools for assuming that role in a terminal, too).

[1] <https://src-bin.com/substrate/>
What people care about is whether they track which websites you visit and the contents of your email. And then selling it to anyone and their dog.
Ya Peter Gibbons figured this out (modulo the podcast) a long time ago. So did Lawrence.
diff.colorMoved can be quite useful (not sure when it was added)

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt...
> imagine a person constantly badgering you for personal information that you don't want to share, and then using whatever info they found to manipulate you. There's a law against that, it's harassment, nobody wants this. But when a machine does it, it's supposedly okay.

Badgering you for personal information? You are freely choosing to go on their site and interact with it how you want. The comparison with "harassment" seems extremely hyperbolic.

> So why not pay you for the right to use this information in advertising?

You're being compensated by using their free product, which you are free to not use.
From his LinkedIn:

> Launched a global health software nonprofit, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on using smartphones to improve rapid testing in low-income countries.

Granted that is 3 years out of a 20-odd year career, but it's the stint immediately preceding the events of the blog post.
Honestly, I don't think marketing would move that needle that much at all. It might distribute the sales a bit more evenly, but even so, sales are going to massively dominated by the few titles that are on the best seller lists.

So why market books when all it does is cost money and redistribute your revenue a bit, but not increase it?
I am a big fan of the cosmere built by Brandon Sanderson, and his achievement in pulling off the most popular Kickstarter to date, publishing four novels independent of the big publishers, should have them nervous.
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Technologies: Project Management, C, C++ (11/14/17 ...), ROS 1 & 2 (Robot Operating System), Firmware/Software (Bare-Metal, RTOS, Linux), Robotics, Embedded Systems, Communication Protocols

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I help companies building production grade firmware and software for (preferably) robotic systems.

I have been professionally developing firmware and software for over a decade, working on AGV control software, wireless sensor networks, guidance systems for self-driving tractors, optoelectronic volume measurement systems for agricultural applications, consumer robotics systems, securely connecting resource-constrained embedded devices with the Internet including OTA,
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Looking forward to hear from you ;)
The most sinister thing about it is that we do need to honor those people who work incredibly hard and undesirable jobs, but by compensating them, not just worshipping them like heroes.
Mike Rowe and the cabal that funded his character attempt to make the viewer feel self-righteous satisfaction merely from empty recognition of merit.

He argues against a minimum wage because some jobs are ‘stepping stones,’ but this runs counter to his whole narrative. Further, a proper trade skill training infrastructure a la unions or guilds would allow for experience ranked compensation. I get that people are wary of corruption and protectionism in unions, but it seems relatively fair in an adversarial market system.

(I’m also aware that simply expressing the need for higher compensation/benefits here is going to sound like bootlicking to smug leftists, but I would respect the dirty job of literal bootlicking.)
Silicon Valley had a great bit about this kind of thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
30 posts in the last 2 years.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Oh really, I hadn't heard that before. From doing some searching I see that elsewhere you mention that you worked at Accolade. Would be curious to hear more of the story of how that reverse engineering went down.

I wouldn't think the TI manual would be all that useful given how much changed between the TMS9918A and the Mega Drive VDP. I guess knowing what a register write looks like is a lot better than starting from zero though.
In fact per app per region that the AWS service exists in. My AWS service exists in 24 regions so that is 24 “prod” accounts, 8 “gamma” and 6 “beta” and 1 “alpha” account. Some newer teams go even further. If the app is made out of different micro services, then each micro service gets its own account per region. Typically a medium sized AWS service will have like 30 micro services behind it (not really micro; these tend to hold lots of code and APIs) so that would be 24 regions * 30 micro-service accounts. Tooling is important without which you cannot manage so many accounts.
And how is this a problem? As user i like the idea that i can select where and when i want this tracking to take place
I think you're vastly overestimating the resources the average person (read: income under 40k) has to do things like drive 300 miles in one direction, multiple times a year
It's possible the files can't be edited within this project. I had a similar experience writing a code parsing engine. Sometimes it's best documented as code debt and the rewrite can be done at a later time.
Love hckr news, it has basically replaced the "front page" of Hacker News for me. So much easier to find the top/relevant/most discussed stories at a glance, particularly for last week's news!
A single hobbyist in Finland could run a profitable business replacing Nissan Leaf batteries unofficially. The dude managed to install a 25% larger battery in the car and fool the on board computer to accept it.

Just imagine what can be done with actual resources and R&D.

The current limiting issue isn't skill or technology, but available new batteries. They can't make them fast enough even for new cars, never mind for spare parts.

But when battery production ramps high enough, there's absolutely nothing preventing people from upgrading existing batteries with more modern tech - bigger battery capacity in the same space.

There will also be a huge industry converting "dead" EV batteries to in-house battery backups. A car with 50% battery degradation is a bit iffy, but the battery will still have tens of kWh of usable capacity. Enough to run a house for a day or two in a pinch - or just store cheap energy and sell it back to the grid when the price goes up.
Unfortunately, this might as well mean more natural gas extraction and the availability of a cheap fossil fuel. This is why we also need carbon taxes; technology developments can impact the fight against climate change in unpredictable ways.
Boy the evidence in this article is pretty thin.
> there's no solid proof

I think modern incrementality studies give solid proof of the value of an ad on the basis of a good model of how the world works. Of course, models can be wrong - it could turn out that solipsism is true, physics is false, and the world outside of your own mind is a figment of your imagination!

That the world is complex and models are inherently wrong does not mean that nothing of value to businesses was lost with ATT.
Solution: turn bad decision-makers into good decision-makers. How? Airdrop them into Canada, apparently.
I agree, I think you mean that they were NOT inline. They were out of the line, in an entirely separate column. With a different background color. With the words "sponsored links" added to their box.
I think the trick is to give and take. And maintain teams that give and take.

Sometimes I need to take my foot of the gas. But I also appreciate that, when I do, someone else has to pick up the slack.

When I encounter teammates who only take, take, take, and never give, either they leave or I do (depending how much influence I have over their employment)
I can see the marketing aspect now “if you install this third party App Store, the apps you can install can ignore the privacy guards and advertise and track you better!”

Or a company like Facebook can once again encourage users to install a VPN that allows them to track all of the traffic to and from your phone.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-used-onavo-vpn-data-to...
Funny, I had a LAMP stack in mind while writing it, and more specifically WordPress. For all the enterprise Java webapps out there, I bet there are 1000x more php sites. And they all use the same basic cms pattern.
SimpleDB is still running!
The software would be cheaper if financed without ads
> by a country mile.

For reference (so someone doesn't have to click through): 17.4 per 100,000 vs the two closest: France at 8.7 and Canada at 8.6

Does that account for the far higher proportion of people living in rural areas in the US? What about obesity, ethnicity, etc?
Sell your back, or sell your brain. There is no other way.
You'd have to get all the way to the fourth sentence:

The spray-on fabric is applied using the likes of aerosol tech, industrial sprayers, and 3D printing
Despite my comments above, some examiners can be bastards. Deliberately setting examinations to fail students is counterproductive and demoralizing (sometimes to the extent that potentially good students leave the course).

In practice, examiners who do this are usually inexperienced and they soon learn to discontinue the practice for all the obvious readons. That's why in this instance I'd be inclined to think the students are at fault as this NYC prof has long and extensive experience (he'd have learned not to so long ago).
> The most expensive rPi is a rounding error in terms of engineering time.

* depending on volume.

For a couple hundred/thousand devices doing industrial automation yes.
For a million and up, it makes sense to pay an engineer 3 months to reduce the BOM by 10 cents.
Have you tried the Nokia 225?
That other engineer is actually a problem. He is accomplishing nothing by grinding 8+ hours a day and will burn out, most deadlines are bullshit.

Nobody can sustain that much work for a long period of time.

I would much rather be a good well rounded reasonable dev than someone doing others work. That is a huge red flag. Every dev should be responsible for THEIR work, not their team mates. Unless of course they are doing code reviews.