skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fwiw I completely agree, RCS is completely dead outside of Google dragging it forward and thats a huge problem, I just don't think the largest company on the planet shrugging their shoulders and saying "maybe your grandma should buy an iPhone" is acceptable.

Their historical position has hurt their own customers, android users, and the standardization process itself. RCS (or a different standard) would be in a completely different place if Apple in their US market leadership position had made an effort.

They could open the iMessage spec, they could publish an iMessage app for Android, or they could just contribute in good faith to the standardization process. Their hostility to this particular standardization process (I don't contest that Apple is happy to support many standards efforts, such as USB) is driven by profit to the detriment of pretty much everyone else.
Microsoft Designer (Canva's Competitor)
> Many people in C-level roles (or aspirants, thereof) are people that seem (in my opinion), to be downright sociopathic. The people around them; especially those at a lower echelon, are considered "disposable assets."

Yeah, this is the underlying problem. The hierarchies and incentives in our society are such that they reward sociopathy, and sociopaths rise to the top.
Sure. But I’m pleased with what I see.
The guy who submitted a brief in comic book form for a DOJ price fixing case [1] is doing just fine. So I'm guessing this parody would also be fine.

[1] https://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/09/all-briefs-should-now...
I think the argument would be that prior to advertising as we know it today, people bought things because they needed them, and at a substantially lower level of consumption. For example you might need a pair of work boots, walking shoes, and dress shoes. Advertisements for 19th century shoes generally focused on their features, like quality, comfort, fit or value.

Born from WWI's propaganda was the idea of using communication to convince someone of something against their interest or for your policy objectives. For example, all x are monsters and you should risk your life to go fight them, using emotional responses and conceptual associations. “make the world safe for democracy.”[1] After the war it was realized these same techniques could be used to make people buy things they didn't need. Shoes are often now sold by convincing you they will make you more athletic, cool or similar self image.
As a result there is now no limit on the number of shoes that a person "needs".

This consumer culture[3], and was somewhat a conscious decision in response to the challenge faced by business from the ability to produce outstripping people's demands or overproduction. Consumers were trained via advertising, in order to keep production and growth humming, at the unseen expense of overconsumption. From Paul M. Mazur's :American Prosperity: Its Causes and Consequences" in 1928,

"Advertising is an educational force. If effective, desires increase, standards of living are raised, purchases are made; purchases create production, production creates purchasing power, and the circle can be made complete if desire is at this point strong enough to convert that power into actual purchases.

Of course there exists theoretically that danger point when consumption has reached its limit. Such a breaking point is probably non-existent.[2]

[1]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-woodrow-wilsons-p...

[2]https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/01/21/desires/

[3]https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consum...
The news: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/microsoft-launches-designer-...
Always-on VPN that tunnels everything requires MDM commissioning. It's documented by Apple.

See the section "Always On VPN":
https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/vpn-overview-depa...

Is it dubious that Apple doesn't let VPN apps do this as well? Maybe. But this is known and documented.
This is public-key-crypto-based authentication for the average user who will almost certainly never buy a security key but who probably owns a device that offers secure identity verification (laptop, phone).

Yubikeys are great but they're super niche. Among Android users alone there might be a billion people who will never buy one.
> Benevolent doesn't mean morally good here, it just means the person exhibiting the bias is assigning a positive attribute rather than negative.

It's just like the concept of positive punishment. You can have positive punishment by adding a consequence (ie. an electric shock) and negative punishment by removing but it's still punishment despite being labelled "positive".
negative != bad

positive != good

We have different words for a reason: the exact reason you are explaining.
90% of professional work is done in an IDE...?

There are many other professions besides programming.
That would be true if people didn't sound different.
The myth of three capacitor values
This is petty, but I'm also constantly annoyed by the presence of the `snap` directory in my home folder, which (to my knowledge) is hard-coded and not configurable. Now, if I want to back up my home directory, I have to configure my backup tools to exclude `snap`.

I don't know why the default location couldn't have been in `/usr` or `/opt` or something, or ideally simply been configurable.
Ask HN: Do I publish code that affects millions of wireless security cameras?
In a quest to have full local access to my wireless security cameras without the cloud I've figured out how to access the video and audio streams of any camera of a certain manufacturer (whose name I'm withholding) without any modification to the stock firmware.

I currently have a program that, given an IP of the camera, will connect to it, authenticate itself, and get the realtime video/audio stream. This isn't just intercepting an ongoing stream, it will actually start a new stream of its own.

Is this something that I just keep and use in my home setup as I originally intended or do I put the code on GitHub for the masses? What are the general considerations for something like this?
Scientists Transplant Human Tissue into Rat Brains
> while pretending to still be present is kind of a drawback of online meeting Vs in-person meetings. Lack of focus is a killer for productivity.

Have you been in meetings before online? People were on their phones and laptops all of the time then too.

If strapping horse blinders to your employees’ heads during all meetings is the solution to keep their attention, you have bigger cultural issues at hand.
I can share some thoughts from a hiring perspective. For context I'm the founder & CEO at https://ipinfo.io - we're a fully remote team of around 30 people, and we've hired at least 10 of those this year, many via the monthly HN Who's Hiring posts, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33076376

The best way to stand out is to put some effort into the application. We get many applications that just include a resume, and no additional details. We also get a lot that include some very generic details that could relate to any job post (eg. "I'd like a remote job for reason X"). Applications that include even the smallest bit of customization will put you way ahead of many candidates (eg. "I saw your post on HN and it caught my eye for reason X and I think it'd be a fit for me because of Y").

Cold outreach direclty to me (email or LinkedIn) is usually a good sign, but again those vary greatly in quality. The worst ones don't give me any information about the candidate (eg. "Saw your post on HN, can you give me more details?"). The very best ones demonstrate that you're proactive, and a great communicator (eg. "Hey Ben, just submitted my application for the role I saw you posted to HN. I'm excited about the role for reason X, and think it could be a great fit because of Y. You can found out more about me at 1, 2 or 3. If there's anything you think I could improve on my application please let me know. And here are a few thoughts I had about your company/product from a quick glance: Z. Hope to hear back from you or the team soon, thanks!")

A really important part of fully remote work is communication, and the application process is a great way to desmonatate that, but it's something people often miss.

Best of luck on your job hunt!
Keep telling yourself a paycheck has no affect on app quality if it makes you feel better.
You can certainly override the ( word to replace its functionality. You can even do so late in the compilation process so that the new semantics only apply to the code you write without affecting the rest of the dictionary.

I don't see why you would, though. Even in your trivial example "(IF (< A B) (THEN C ELSE D)))" the brackets are unbalanced and even if they were, IF would be executed after THEN and ELSE. When you push a word to the "X-stack" you correspondingly have to push a word to an analogue of a stack in your mind to know what happens when ')' executes. You failed to do this and therefore your example is broken. In idiomatic Forth, you wouldn't have to worry: in most cases you only have to consider the data stack, and in most cases the sequences you just read to your left imply what's on top of that, not what you read ten words back.

Even if it was slightly easier to read than idiomatic Forth (I disagree that it is), in-line comments strike me as more important "shit" than superficial syntax sugar.
I like how you use one difficult example (Rick and Morty) to justify a wholesale move back into piracy.

I use a Roku. It has all the apps. Sometimes I forget what show is in which app. JustWatch is helpful. I can legally buy Rick and Morty season 6 from iTunes. I’m laying in bed and could buy it in about 15 seconds.

If there was no such thing as piracy and streaming services were free then dealing with all the different services would be a mild nuisance. IMHO people pirate primarily because of money. Everything else is just a weak attempt to morally justify something they know is wrong.

At the very least pay for most of your content. Don’t pirate everything just because that one anime from Japan you love is hard to legally pay for.
A more complicated solution would be having different markets and prices for different sources of electricity. It's not like these companies are price gouging, the renewables simply can't cover the demand, so electricity cost a lot. But it doesn't cost a lot for these companies to make, so they pocket the difference, incentivizing them to perpetuate similar conditions in the future, holding back supply. With a windfall tax the government takes that profit from you, removing the incentive. Problem solved.

This is yet another example of why the free market alone can't function without intervention by the government.
This is all part of the FIDO Alliance, so, a standards based solution that anyone with the wherewithal to implement it can do so. Many password managers have already said they'll be supporting it, as well as major vendors (Google and Apple for instance).

I'm struggling to see your complaint being a valid one. This is basically webauthn, so use a Yubikey or similar device if you wish.
they're talking about 250 million gallons over 90 days
> Europe has more effective telecom service

Some of Europe has very effective telecom infrastructure, but that's far from universal.
From TFA (the security blog): "The main ingredient of a passkey is a cryptographic private key. In most cases, this private key lives only on the user's own devices, such as laptops or mobile phones."
Some thoughts on the explosive evolution of text-to-image
How to Create a Consistent ID for Your Chrome Extension
The post explains way to generate a consistent ID for your chrome extension across your development team.
>Half the software installers will tell you to restart when they're finished even though it's not necessary anymore

Methinks you either don't know what is "necessary", assume you know more than the developers of said software as to what is "necessary", or that you know better than OS vendors what is "necessary"

Rebooting is simple, fast, and basically pain-free 99.99% of the time

It clears memory, hung processes, file handles, and a host of other things - any (or all) of which could interact poorly with whatever software you're installing/upgrading may rely on

If an installer wants a reboot, I fully expect the software to likely not work 100% correctly until said reboot has completed
Are AI generated podcasts fascinating or terrifying?
I was listening to the AI generated podcast of Joe Rogan interviewing Steve Jobs. (https://podcast.ai/). I don't know if I was fascinated or terrified, to be honest... What about you?
Interesting that reducing contrast is the exact 'nudge' Hacker News uses to inform us that a comment is less credible.
It’s definitely in the same orbit, but I would connect it more closely to the high risk, high variance strategies taken by males, which drive mentioned traits such as aggression, disagreeableness, & danger.
The band The Glitch Mob maintain an ambient playlist on spotify that I listen to constantly while working. They update it really regularly (4 day since last song added right now).

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1sJKFhnCYglVaDXtA2y7Ao?si=...
Why would you need a CS degree in HR, Marketing, Product, etc?
This is ridiculous. If you have a problem with what someone is doing you say "I have a problem with what you're doing, for the following reasons." You don't drop oblique threats or do the other nonsense mentioned in the article.

Obviously we don't know the other side of the story but you are making a massive leap from what is presented and ignoring the completely reasonable alternatives to what the SVP is reported to have done.
Two FBI agents conspired against him?

According to who? Trump?

Investigating leads is conspiring against you?

I don’t know the veracity of the claim that the FBI told the media to censor negative news. The media was definitely on guard for being manipulated following the DNC/Podesta email hacking and use of media by Russia in 2016. And so were our counterintelligence agencies. It’s literally their job.
Yup exactly. Our default social contract gives governments a monopoly on violence, of course they’ll use it.
Microsoft launches Designer, its answer to highly valued startup Canva
I don't see any reason why Apple Pay would use IP geolocation like that when it's running on a device that has GPS.
iOS devices are leaky as hell. I once tried blackholing all requests besides those to a VPN service on a router level, and even then my iPhone would just fall back to mobile data for notifications and other Apple services.
Tilt Five is promising an amazing solution to the board game problem - IMHO, it's better than what Oculus provides. https://www.tiltfive.com/
I'm pretty confused by the product positioning. If Fleet is built on the same technologies as other Jetbrains IDEs, describes itself as an IDE, and is natively polyglot, why shouldn't it replace the other language-based IDEs? From the marketing material, it's not clear to me the value proposition of, for example, IntelliJ compared to Fleet.
It's not a bad simulation, though. It gives your monkey brain the visceral feeling that you're in the same room with these other people
Say, VirtualBox is usually such a computer for me.
Actually a recent trend is to not release DVD’s / blue rays because it keeps people on streaming services. I would love to buy a blu-ray of Hamilton the musical but Disney hasn’t made that available yet, despite being able to stream it on Disney+ since 2020.
I mean, I think I get why -- it's that "design" is where all the cool kids are, essentially. Selling people the idea of "design" itself is profitable and/or fruitful. I teach undergraduate IT, and this whole thing definitely gets butts in seats; obviously I find it a mixed bag at best.
Although this comment leads me to think that either this has changed in subsequent iOS releases, or the author has issues with telling the truth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33178848
There are very sparse areas of China too, yet there are high speed trains between major cities across regions. Then there are additional slower lines with more stops from major cities to other nearby localities.

US coast-to-coast trains wouldn't need stops to be viable. They'd just need to initially be subsidised significantly, much like the current fossil-dominated industries are.
Especially professional services folks - if you don't know how it breaks (and likely fixes), you have almost ZERO reason to be in the field
It would generally be more accurate.
If Apple becomes an ad company, I'll have to seriously reconsider my commitment to Apple.

The only reason I moved away from Android was Google. I had no real complaints from the phones or Android user-experience itself.
> can’t judge it on a 1 year scale.

Facebook wants us to, though.

This isn’t a lab demo that they’re showing us — it’s meant to be a product you can use today.
yes it does. It is well known that women have a proclivity to climb the social ladder and marry upwards, therefore desiring wealth etc. Duckduckgo hypergamy.

I obviously used the term in a sarcastic manner, to show how stupid it is, together with its sister term
https://elixirforum.com is the best technical forum I’ve used in recent memory. Not because the underlying forum tech is amazing, but because all the most experienced people using the Elixir language/ecosystem are there and they are very welcoming. It’s open (no login required) and questions are never down-voted or closed arbitrarily. As a long time 10+ year member of SO in the top 1% I can say it’s a horrible experience as a n00b. Not so on Elixir Forum. It’s a joy.

Don’t know if this answers the OP question, but it’s an example of a great technical forum.
Yeah, but the question is whether they are more expensive. If they were cheaper (per watt in this case, rather than per joule) people in Brazil and northern Argentina would probably use them to start their motorcycles. I think they're closer to that crossover than to the cost-per-joule crossover.
They also have the seemingly unique and blatantly unconstitutional power to imprison you for ""lying"" to them.

The actual wording/charge is "providing false statements", which means anything that they can later suggest is untrue.

This is why you should never, ever speak with anyone associated with the FBI even if they are being "friendly".

Say they knock at the door and have questions for you about your shady neighbor down the street. You're not the one under investigation, so what's the harm in talking to them right? Well officer friendly asks the innocuous question of if it was raining last Thursday. You tell them that it was. As it turns out, it was not raining last Thursday and your honest-but-wrong answer means you are now able to be charged with "lying to the FBI".

In practice, they knew it wasn't raining last Thursday and the question was a trap. By answering incorrectly officer friendly can then threaten to charge you at a later date, except there's an out! _You can become an informant!_. By agreeing to spy on your neighbor for the mafia they'll spare you federal inditement. You're now an "asset" that they can work for as long as they please and you have no legal recourse.

EDIT: To expand upon this, lets say it wasn't last thursday but was in fact 60+ days ago. They have a text message from you to your wife saying how beautiful/sunny the day was, because despite being "end to end encrypted" your iMessage private key is stored on Apple servers because you clicked the default CTAs during iCloud setup to enable iCloud backup. They _know_ it was not raining and have "proof" you knew it was not raining, because you texted your wife how nice and sunny it was. You honestly don't remember at the time you were questioned, maybe you think you're 100% telling the truth. Maybe you're confused, and are thinking of the thursday prior where it _was_ raining. None of that matters, they have you on a federal felony and you're their asset now.
I recently came across Boston Metal’s proposed use of this inert anode material but I couldn’t find much detail on whether the “breakthrough” claim was genuine. It still seems early days, though if true it would be a transformative enabler for the production of low-carbon steel.
I checked those background colors with this contrast calculator [0] against white:

- Contrast of your iPhone: 2.21:1 (#35c759)

- Contrast that's "poor": 2.17:1 (#65c466)

- Contrast that's "good": 2.93:1 (#3bac3c)

- Contrast of the blue: 3.95:1 (#367bf5)

Based on this I would say that the Contrast of your green and the "gross" one from the article are actually pretty close, both being very far from the contrast that blue provides.

Not even the good green from the article does match the contrast of the blue. They are being lenient I'd say, not misleading.

[0]: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Framed by Your Own Cells: How DNA Evidence Imprisons the Innocent(2018)
Something I've never understood about 2D/Flatland as a "visual" idea:

In the case of this Mar1d, if I'm on the X-axis, and can only see the Y-axis, wouldn't any amount of detail in the Z-axis constitute a 3D image? The Y-axis stretched even a single "pixel" along Z would make it 3D, right?

Similarly, for Flatlandia: If I'm a 2D square on the X-axis, and can see "around" me on the Z-axis, wouldn't my ability to see anything make the Y-axis be > 1?
Lol, it's LITERALLY just this. There is 100% nothing else to see here. This whole conversation is so wild to me.
You are very convinced your 80s stand-up comedy stereotypes are accurate and it's deeply funny.
Right, that would be equivalent. Or a regular photo which is then cropped.
From their report:

> We have run link margin calculations including Zodi, CIB, galaxy and optical emission for such a wafer scale system run in a hibernate/burst mode using the DE-STAR array as both the transmitter of power to propel and communicate with the spacecraft as well as to receive the very weak signal from the spacecraft and conclude it is feasible to receive data (albeit at low rate) at light year distances.

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/roadmap...
Yes! I didn't even know Github offered this. Exactly what I was looking for.
That's 3D though, not nearly as interesting as 1D Mario :)
> Late-stage capitalism in fully swing indeed.

Businesses making poor products has little to do with late-stage capitalism. That’s been a theme of both capitalism and socialism for as long as people have had different ideas on what’s important.
Plex Metadata Manager also allows you to import tmdb/imdb/tvdb/trakt lists which makes discovery a solved problem. You can have it import the top TV shows and movies currently playing which means it always has the latest releases.

The whole process is absurdly low maintenance once set up, as long as you have the storage space for it.
At least globbing should return fully qualified paths (not sure there is an established term for `(<directory>/)+<file>' paths, as opposed to `<file>` ones).
Maybe he noticed this problem before you did. Something to do with the time they offered $1M to a foreign national to find evidence incriminating him. They didn't get anything, promised FISA court they did, and enabled political opponents to tap global historical messaging databases, two-hop unlimited.
Unless they're using uBlock of course.
I don't know if the smoldering wreckage of Activision-Blizzard could make the next WoW..
Google "ethical disclosure."

The standard in the security research community is you inform the manufacturer and give them an opportunity to patch the flaw. Then you wait some number of days (some people say 30, other say "depends on the details of the vulnerability"). Then you publish the code along with enough text to explain the vulnerability to a reasonably technical audience.