skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly opinionated with a real message, I loved it.

Through the RISC story we pay a cultural debt we owe to RISC. It is story telling, about a time long gone, and the tale is mythical in nature. In opposition to the myth, as the article states, RISC by itself is no longer an ideal worth pursuing.

This is relevant to the other Big Myth of our tech times, the Unix Story, and by extension to Linux. UNIX is mythical, having birthed OS and file abstractions, as well as C. It was a big idea event. But its design is antithetical to what a common user today needs, owning many devices and installing software that can't be trusted, at all, yet needs to be cooperative.

When Unix was born, many users had to share the same machine, and resources were scarce to the point there was an urgent need to share them, between users. Unix created the system administrator concept and glorified him. But today Unix botches the ideals it was once born of, the ideals of software modularity and reusability. Package managers are a thing, yet people seem blind to the fact they actually bubble up from hell. Many PM's have come already and none will ever cure the disease.

Despite this the younger generations see Unix through rosy glasses, as the pinnacle of software design, kinda like a Statue of Liberty, instead of the destruction of creative forces it actually results in. I posit Linux's contribution to the world is actually negative now. We don't articulate the challenges ahead, we're just procrastinating on Linux. It's the only game in town. But the money is still flowing, servers are still a thing, and so the myth is still alive.

The Unix Myth has become a toxic lie, and as collateral Linus has become a playmate for the tech titans. I'm waiting for him to come out and do the right thing, for it is evil for the Myth to continue to govern today's reality.
Here's some interesting things that I believe are universally true in India:

1) People succeed here inspite of the government, not cause of it.*

2) Indians can be successful anywhere except India.

*Unless you are rich enough to bend the laws to your needs.
I have 4 (3 Yubikeys, 1 Hypersecu HyperFIDO), and I ordered 6 more, some for my wife and others for offsite backup, sadly some services will only allow you to register two, and AWS only one for root accounts.
And in summary (tl;dw)

https://imgur.com/xDZZntj

https://youtu.be/9Pn0rHTpwvo?t=781
Yep, Google's communication was pretty unclear, but the developer is being repeatedly called out for the same underlying problem which they haven't addressed at all.
Yes, the killing is being done everywhere throughout modern life just at different levels of distance removed from the killing. I believe the thought experiment to be relevant in this case as there is a more direct chain between the death of the animal and my consumption of the end product. It provided me with insight as well as the year long experiment.

I think it’s a brilliant thought experiment as (providing you’re not completely desensitised) it makes you sit and think whether you truly want something or if there are alternatives out there you’d be happy with it. And it forces you to take personal responsibility for the consequences of the things you do want.
I used to get one every sell, sell the last one, and make a profit since it was tax deductible.
Just to add to this because of a recent update. Mike Pence said tonight that the constitution doesn't provide freedom from religion
That's an interesting take. I'll have to sleep on it and get back to you.
What weird thing did they say you have to try adding to brunswick stew? (Cf peas and guacamole)
Calls are less likely to leave a paper trail, too.
A company stamp isn't a security device any more than a signature. It's an abstraction similar to a "power of attorney" type thing. They are going away but has been used in Japan and China, including Hong Kong, as well.
or https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live ?
Also glitches like crazy on Chrome for iOS.
incredibly naive answer from someone who probably haven't lived in a corrupt country and deal with the process on a daily basis.
Yup. it's exactly this. After first unlock, data is decrypted and loaded into memory. You shouldn't be able to extract it though, without unlocking the device.
That would be a terrible business strategy.

If someone comes forward with legitimate good security vulnerabilities and you don’t pay out, you’re massively encouraging them to go to shady brokers next time.
You're right. Main political opposition in India was affected with Pegasus and it is part of this program. I think this has more to do with the level of Apple's presence in a country/jurisdiction and their ability to retrieve the device back in case of misuse.
Maybe Echo ? The enemies learn and unlearn from your actions, but not sure it's based on a Neural Network, though.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/echo-hitman-preview/
I don’t like a walled garden, and yet I use an iPhone because I like reducing e-waste. As soon as a Linux phone is viable (which I expect will be the case by the time my current iPhone kicks the bucket), I’ll switch.

That said, for non-techies like my parents, I recommend iPhone + MacBook. You pay a bit more, but their longevity makes them economical, the integration is top notch, they just work, have less bloatware, have excellent battery life, etc.

Apple’s revenue is what it is for a very good reason.
Yes. Apple and DuckDuckGo offer that as a feature. I use Postfix and wrote my own web UI to manage virtual domains: https://github.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb

It's very interesting seeing how companies get breached. The most common culprit is when they outsource email marketing to third-party firms with spotty security, but when I started receiving pornographic spam sent to my Dell vendor email address, I knew their security is worthless.
A few questions, mostly because I'm somewhat interested:

1. How does this handle rate limiting on the target?

2. Who writes new connectors? Moving Lake only? Or can users create their own connectors (e.g. in Segment)?

3. You charge per event - but what are there batch connectors (also to overcome rate limits on targets)?

4. I'm curious why someone would choose to use Moving Lake over Segment? Are you beating them on pricing?
Yubico’s perspective and resource guide to passkeys 101
In the meantime companies like remote.com and similar have sprung up, providing "employer of record" services. Basically they let you outsource the act of having a company in a given country and employing people through it, much like how Stripe lets you outsource the whole merchant account thing for payments.

It seems that whenever there's red tape, there's a business opportunity in paving over it and providing a sane interface on top of it instead.
I like Doctorow, and his politics generally.

I feel he's been hornswoggled here.

Basically fascists have controlled popular economic thought for so long he thinks economics = fascism.

But pretty much every problem he relates can be addressed with the economists tools.

This is like the mirror image of all the extreme free market capitalists who think any government involvement in anything is a short slippery slope to death camps.

Carbon pricing, for example, has indeed been a useful tool in fighting climate change. The US is one of the few developed nations that doesn't use it. That is a problem with the US, not carbon pricing. In the US 'carbon price' is used to criticize any other solution, ina perfect is the enemy of the good kind of way.

disclaimer: I studied economics so may be rose-tinted on this subject even though I'm well aware of the terrible things done in its name. Basically I'm making a No True Economist argument.
I have dealt with bureaucracy in Italy and in Switzerland and if you think Switzerland has bad bureaucracy, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Nobody intended to give an answer to an unsolvable problem, but to solve practical problems. If you redesign data structures, most likely you'll have to restart the program. So what?
Wrong, Spotify's existence does not depend on Apple and their platform. Spotify works on all platforms.

Apple is rent-seeking by abusing their natural monopoly on app distribution on iOS platforms (their platform, their rules) which is leveraged to create a monopoly in IAP channels.
The way you word it makes it sound like "the corruption in developing countries is low-level, whereas in developed countries it's high-level". In reality, the corruption in developing countries is on all levels, whereas it's mostly only happening at a higher level in developing countries.
I have an iPhone SE (1st gen) which I believe is also 2016, and I still get updates as well. In fact, this SE is still amazing. When I pull it out, nearly everybody says things like, "wow, I haven't seen a phone that small in a long time" and "I hate my gigantic phone". It still works fine. I have been thinking about getting an indestructible case for it. I haven't used a case yet, but I really don't want to have to buy a gigantic replacement phone, and I worry about dropping it and finally having it break.

I wish they would make another small-form-factor phone again. I hear the 13 mini or something like that is reasonable, but it is still bigger.

My very first iPhone (first gen) was the all-time best.
That would just create a bidding war and wouldn't stop the arms race at all.

Also, once the rewards increase past a certain point, security researchers would have no reason to work for apple, since one big hit would mean set for life.
in The US recently a commissioner at The FDA got offered a high exec position at Pfizer. Nobody says anything about that...
We had one of these colocated at the rural state university I used to work at. Saved us tons of bandwidth not having tens of thousands of undergrads need to get their 1s and 0s from further afield. Probably improved typical download speeds for everyone upstream of us too.
> Unfortunately, Apple sees things differently—because fair competition is the last thing Apple wants.

Hahah, so funny to hear this from a company well known for enforcing DRM & paywalls with ads everywhere.
Their weird content/metadata detection is also what turns me off. Even just having a sane 'files' view with an arbitrary depth would be fine, bit it just does not work. They don't scan metadata like id3 tags. At least this is how I remember my impression when I tried it a year ago.
I got the Galaxy Note 10+ over 3 years ago and I can't imagine a a phone without a stylus now. The ability to take a note in a second without opening the phone is worth its weight in gold to me. As soon as somebody makes a foldable with a stylus I'm all in, just wish there was more options than Samsung.
May be not exactly what you want to achieve, but take a look at 'insmod' and 'rmmod' code of the Linux driver ecosystem. It is ELF based but very enjoyable.
I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
What the fuck. This is so good
The results of British and east India company influences?
Html was absolutely created for writing, though it later got hijacked as a system for creating UI's inside of the browser doing the browser wars of the 90ies, but if you look at the original specs, it's a way of marking up documents and it was very much readable even without a rendering engine.

Prior to html and the web revolution people would use different macro packages for either troff or TeX and, and in the first years of HTML people would absolutely write it by hand thinking very little of it but then again that was before style elements css and javascript.

After the browser wars almost everyone who working with documentation had their own perl, or ruby scripts to take some simplified markdown syntax into html and there is of cause a risk of markdown itself getting bloated to the point where people need scripts to turn simple meta formats into correct markdown.
It's actually kind of disturbing how there are basically only a handful of countries on the planet without systematic corruption. Maybe there are none. Perhaps it's a human trait.
Corruption at the government level is rampant in Japan
Great idea--I'll see if I can head back out to capture this along with more of the path to get to the Robber's Tunnel.
NIST has made a series of sensible guidelines:

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/

They now need to be made enforceable, whether by government requiring them in government contracts, or indirectly by insurers excluding coverage if they are not met.
Those displays seem to be the same one sold to gamers years ago. I yearned for one as a youth!
I wouldn't say they should have no stake, just that its impractical to ask them.

First of all, security is context dependent. Even a security expert will have trouble making good choices if they don't have the full picture of how the business operates. A non-expert has basically no chance. Just look at how many B2B security companies are basically preying on ignorance to sell useless security solutions. They sell them to businesses which should in principle be able to rationally evaluate the offering, and yet still manage to swindle them. What hope does the average person have?

Second, if you give users real choice, that means you have to implement all the choices, which means you have to spread your focus. Complexity is the enemy of security. The more complexity the more likely you will miss some unintended interaction.

Then there is the other trade-offs. Some security controls can have very real productivity and business trade-offs. For example, if one of your controls is that all staff have to get manager sign-off before accessing any machine with user data on it, that is going to slow down work. Often that is worth it, but the productivity loss can be significant depending on how the business is set up. I'm not sure it makes sense for users to control something like that, except in the sense they should be informed of protection in place and can freely decide if they want to continue doing business. Not to mention how can you do something like that for half your users?

My general view is that companies should be more transparent in what they do so that people can vote with their feet. Companies should also be liable for breaches, especially ones that would have been prevented by best practises. This punishes companies who play fast and loose, and also might in theory put pressure via insurance requirements. A big part of the problem right now is that it is generally more profitable to not invest in security. Breaches have very minor impacts, even major ones usually just mean a very small temporary dip in the stock price. Companies aren't going to care about security unless it affects the bottom line.
People are lazy by default, they prefer simplicity and convenience. HTML compared to markdown has better results, but is less convenient and more complex. That's all what is there.

I used to write notes in HTML and for example creating list in HTML is annoyingly slow and tedious process, while creating list in markdown is just writing one symbol. Done.

Then you will get to create inline code or block of code, suddenly you need to write span (or div) pointing on a CSS class where you will specify formatting of that inline code. So you need to link CSS file or have CSS code in header of your HTML file. In markdown you will just use one symbol (or three for code block). Done.
>"This linker can facilitate program introspection. I plan on having symbols the linker itself provides to the program image that allow the program to inspect its own symbols. This opens the door to a whole variety of interesting things:

o Call any function in your program in an interactive read-evaluate-print loop

o Visualize function compiled sizes

o Visualize function references

o Introspect on program data

…and more things I haven't thought of yet!"

Brilliant idea! I'd love to see this linker when it is complete! I hope you succeed wildly in this endeavor!
I don't think it's even just distrust of large tech companies but anything that now wants to manage any data or communication. I see startups launching on HN to manage passwords or some new collaboration app and I think, do I really want to put all my information through that? No. I really don't. I don't know who the people are running that service, I don't know their motivations, I don't know what their goals are, I don't know where they're storing that data, how they're securing the service or what they'll do with it in future. I don't even know if they're competent enough to keep any of it secure. If anything I'm more and more convinced people don't have the first clue about security, let alone password security. Does anyone remember what salting passwords means? I'm worried they don't. Will the data be encrypted? Likely not.

It just feels like all the stuff that now comes out, it's a rehash of what came before only less secure, less private and more superfluous/likely-to-disappear.
Ukraine was really on a roll pre-war, regarding corruption, at least low-level.

I had a friend who worked at Kyiv since 2014, first as a nightclub owner, then as a security contractor salesman/manager, and he told me that low-level corruption there was divided by two overnight (during Covid).

I don't know what happened, but i guess it is easier to pass harsher or society-changing laws during a pandemic.
Is smoking still allowed there indoors (in the airport)?
Nobody is stopping you from using Apple IAP.

The difference being discussed is between <Apple enforcing Apple IAP as one of the options for IAP> and <Apple enforcing Apple IAP as the ONLY option and banning any communication on the subject>.
the way people are learning to interact with stable diffusion is incredibly interesting to me, almost learning a new language via prompts to get it to produce desired results. i feel like that may be the key to the next step in ai, realising that human directed ai fills huge gaps in talent at both ends
Similar thread, https://twitter.com/acczibit/status/1580308518724591616

> nobody trusts tech to be benign or a voluntary enhancement to one's life anymore ... It's like watching someone tinkering on a torture device you know you'll eventually be forced/coerced into wearing. Nobody cares what epic new tech breakthroughs come with it.
River ecosystems are really complex and far-reaching. It's about more than just fish swimming upstream to spawn.

Hydroelectric dams destroy these ecosystems completely. Yes, you can build bypass channels for fish, but that's just a part of the system and the channels don't work properly in many cases.
NHS: 'I wouldn't bring a member of my family to this hospital,' says medic
OP wonders if there’s a version of the Thinkpad keyboard with a metal case.
The Tex Kodachi has the Thinkpad layout in an aluminum case, but it’s unfortunately out of stock on the manufacturer’s website:

https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard/products/kodachi

The Tex Shinobi isn’t metal, so no help there, but it might have a little more rigidity and still has that Thinkpad layout:

https://tex.com.tw/collections/keyboard/products/shinobi
> That taught me?

That larned me?
> I am

Feel free to join - I find there to be no good community for this so far (there was one on Discord, but the owner nuked it).

> There seems to be private APIs to do great software

Boox has an SDK that is a little bit documented here: https://github.com/onyx-intl/OnyxAndroidDemo

It's a bit hard to understand what component to use for what, if my motivation allows and you're interested I can look for my notes about it. I've personally used the third-party PNGNote as a nice reference: https://github.com/karino2/PngNote

> A terminal often writes to a small portion of the screen, so everything else could remain static and without ghosting

The tablet already handles partial updates pretty well for me, including for Termux.

> while this portion of the screen getting new characters would get fast text rewrites, a bit like how you when you write on the notetaking app, it shows immediately yet a bit fuzzy, then it's redrawn later in high quality.

On a technical level you may be looking for something to automatically switch between one of the fast modes and normal mode/manually refresh the screen. However: Even in X mode the response is definitely not instant. I think the SDK allows directly painting pixels which should be a lot faster and very powerful, but I haven't seen anyone doing so in the wild so far. Let's definitely stay in contact if you're interested in that!
Ask HN: Where can I learn about energy sector?
There's quite a lot going in the energy sector with shifts to renewables, Russia going nuts, countries implementing various policies,etc. Anyone's got some resources that I could deep dive or at least build decent understand of what's going?
> Does any of you have a recommendation for a screen that doesn't consume so much energy?

Are you after a physical tiny screen doing 4K/retina or after something huge not retina?

My LG 38" does 3840x1600. I'm using it since five years now and I much prefer to work on that than to work on my M1 Mac laptop's tiny retina screen. The 38" consumes less than 50W without being set in eco mode.
While this is true, the complexity perspective misses something more fundamental.

1) Our brains, and moreso those of animals, come with a really good pretraining at birth. This is collective genetic knowledge of millions of generations distilled into your brain.

2) Our brains have a lot of sensors and actuators to interact with the world. We only learn by reading as adults when our brains can already do the synesthesia of translating words into thought. But even as adults, most of us learn better if we do something, write something, engage in dialog, instead of passively listening, reading, or watching.

Passive data can never replicate the rich environment our brains grow up in.
Thanks for trying it and pointing this out--I haven't been working on the VR version for this reason. The web viewer provides movement through 360 photos instead of the 3d model.
How quickly is quickly? I've never had a CPU break on me, I still have laptops in storage a decade old that work fine, only they're too slow for the modern web. Perhaps 90C is reasonable for the time you will be using the device.
It's not just Apple of course, everyone who can afford it uses high DPI screens now.

Pixels aren't there to be seen, there is literally no display which wouldn't be, ceteris paribus, better at high DPI.

It's like speakers which hiss: easy to ignore until you spend time with ones which don't.

The notion that I care about a clearer picture on the screen I use to make my living, for hedonic reasons, is pretty comical actually. It's straightforward ergonomics which pays off in a lot of ways.
Many thanks for the encouraging words! :)
My hometown is close to Portugal's westernmost tip, about 30km from Lisbon. Its not uncommon to see differences over 10C between the two, and the car ride will many times include rain or fog only in a specific spot of the highway, half way.

Even if you stay right next to the ocean/river during the whole trip by avoiding the highway you'll notice a big difference most days.
Biggest Privacy Concerns Around Facial Recognition Technology
The author specifically mentioned that their linker-loader doesn't require separating reloadable code into a separate shared object, but jet-live does.
(Shoutout to any of my DJForums regulars from way back, I miss ya'll)

Given all the very good and correct advice throughout this article and this comment section, remember:

* The internet loves perfect

* You don't need perfect

* Imperfect is better than nothing, use what you can get

* You can always get another set of decks/mixer/etc later on

In other words, be pragmatic, buy smart but don't fall for the hype. I wish we could all have Technics 1200's too, but we can't. You'll have endless fun learning to mix on a budget pair of Stanton belt drives, and you'll probably eventually learn why people hate on belt drives, but you'll probably take a while to progress far enough in the hobby for that to actually matter.
100% aligned. The missing piece for me to fix is to become an active consumer of Reddit which currently I'm not.