skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your interest.

(1) Are you planning on having support for more than 5 devices at a future point?

5 devices is what we estimate 1 user has (avg max). If there is demand, we will definitely add a plan to support more devices (or users).

(2) Will you have any features to support parents protection of their children?

We already collect NSFW filter lists to be activated in the settings. Otherwise such features are tricky, as we need to start protecting against the person in front of the device, which is very hard. If you have suggestions, please share!

(3) How easy is it to integrate Safing into a home security stack, or an enterprise security stack?

Can you elaborate on what exactly you have in mind? We don't offer any integrations with other system out of the box yet. We have APIs though that you can use.

(4) Have you considered a one-time unlimited buy-in level in lieu of monthly?

We had a couple lifetime plans on our Kickstarter (years ago).
Right now, we don't have any plans for this.
You can pay in advance though - up to 4 years.

(5) Is this coming for iOS & MacOS?

Yes. Or, at least we will attempt. Going to be "fun" if Apple continues their locking down strategy. Maybe the EU will force them to open up until then. Expect at least 1-2 years for this to land though.
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We are looking for a Sr Data Engineer to lead our infrastructure development efforts which involve working across multiple cloud environments and health data sources. The key stakeholders are a data science team building models in Python.

We are still early in our journey and approach so there's a lot of room to craft and improve our tech stack. This is a great opportunity to use your skills and expertise to impact clinical care.

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Nothing you do to offset your individual impacts matters. At all. It's just greenwashing, not even a rounding error. Even if you stopped producing carbon completely, or just outright died, some other first-worlder is having a baby or two right this moment and they will eclipse your carbon output in no time. There are already a bazillion offsets floating around and their sum total is still not making any meaningful impact on climate change.

The only chance you have at making any sort of real difference is affecting large-scale change, whether that's by empowering certain ideologies through politics, creating new technologies or markets, etc. The Patagonia guy recently made the news for turning his entire clothing chain into a fundraiser for climate change, for example. But all of those are long shots and probably all of them combined still won't be enough to make a noticeable dent in our lifetimes... it's a pretty doomed effort by this point, just too little, too late.

There is a tiny, tiny chance that some major bet with terrible odds (in fusion, say, or a super-climate-conscious politician or whatever) miiiiiiight pay off to make some small difference, and by that I mean postponing climate effects by a few years, not avoiding it altogether. That tiny, tiny chance is still more of a difference than what you'd make if you focused on your own life. Don't waste your time or money trying to make yourself feel good.

This is not the sort of problem that individual incrementalism can solve, sadly.
I hope that some day there’s a paper like this to look back on like we do with Lovelace and Babbages stuff (foundational for something that seemed like magic at the time)

Would be cool if it happened during my lifetime though.
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I imagine this is in response to the rumors that Twitter employees had to print out the code changes they did in the last month to justify their jobs. This, and stories like it, are what I thought of when I heard that.
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Great to hear that. BTW in meantime other ppl also posted amazing content. Right now I am following this guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvyUAaRTsww&list=PLcGZbzUhfc...), he builds x86 breadboard computer, but does so with much more tech detail & compiler/liner mastery than Ben.

(If you are interested into x86 breadboard stuff, please check The 8088 Project Book - which is a great intro befor jumping into more advanced stuff).

BTW I have a PoC of using C with Ben Eater computer - https://github.com/marcin-chwedczuk/ben-eater-6502-ansi-c I do not have time to dig deeper into it yet, but looks promising. The only problem with 8-bit processor is that they use first page of memory to pass extra variables because stack is too small (256 values in total, yup).
Isn't Linode known for its low prices? If so, this may be a case of you get what you pay for.

I have some dirt-cheap $5 VMs that I use for banging around, but for anything important I pay extra for machines that are backed by actual support. You hope that you never need it, but when you need it, you really need it.
But it really is the same with mastodon. You don't need to find an instance that matches your political tendencies, furry niche, or whatever.

Just pick one that feels right. Maybe you are French or Korean and like a server in French or Korean, or maybe you feel very strong about politics: the make that a parameter. Otherwise just go for any "general" server.

Just like with email, people will generally just pick Hotmail, AOL, xs4all.nl, yahoo or email, without much thought. This is fine.

You can easily move later if you ever find a community that you wish to be part of.
The article is a book review, that is not the context I see when I read that condemnation. Maybe the book makes that case, but the review does not.

And, referencing your other post, I don't think the scenario in seventeenth century England is comparable to third century Rome. The Roman pantheon was already on the downswing, allowing a priest of Elagabalus to become emperor. A century later Constantine would make a similar move, leading to the still dominant Christianity. Had Heliogabalus been a competent man the move may have been a huge success.

Finally, the personal attacks aren't necessary.
> It was in Le Guin's novel "The Dispossessed" that I first read a convincing account of such a society

It's been a minute, but _was_ The Dispossessed a convincing account of such a society? From what I remember, the protagonist encounters academic gate-keepers who effectively control who gets to do teaching and research or what gets communicated to the main planet, centralized systems choose things as personal as what you're named, resources (food) are distributed unequally and untransparently (Shivek is surprised when the big university cafeteria has more/better food?). Coercive hierarchies still develop, but they're cloaked in the dogma of anarchism.

I read this as showing that even if you can isolate to an extreme (by being on a resource-poor moon), and have a language and education system which tries to suppress concepts of ownership, and a population goes through the shared trauma of fighting to feed themselves, people will still find a way to limit each other's freedom, and exercise power, and accumulate or control resources.
It is vulnerable to numbers, I think, for the same reason people believe misinformation. If a check looks plausible, some number of people will say it's correct without double checking.
Embarrassingly bad? How so? Embarrass me.
Fiscal year 2022 is not complete yet for either company. Why would you look at that until it's completed? It's keeping it real disingenuous. All sorts of adjustments come into play. The most recent complete fiscal year matches my statement exactly.

FY21 AMD revenue 16.4 billion dollars[0]

FY21 Intel profit 43.815 billion dollars[1]

[0]https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1044/am....

[1]https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1522/...
> It just seems to me there's some entrenched user behavior that will be very difficult to change.

I definitely agree with that. I left Twitter myself this week, and I've increased my blogging and started a Slack. But it's difficult, because a lot of people are still on Twitter, and they refuse to leave. By leaving, I've decreased my own reach, unfortunately. We'll see what the long-term consequences are.

The catch is that Twitter is full of people who never write their own content, aside from tweets. If they leave Twitter, they silence themselves. They can follow RSS, newsletters, etc., but they don't have a voice outside of Twitter. And to be frank, maybe they don't have much interesting to say, but they're still the primary audience for creators.

> Regardless, this thread wasn't posted on his blog or newsletter

I can't say whether or not it was in the newsletter, as I don't subscribe. It might have been there too?
My point was more that spending government dollars on internally sourced services is always a better multiplier (for that governments economy).

TIL there is move in California to have UoC source it's cafeteria meals direct from California farmers (shortening the supply chain, increasing profits and consistent income for farmers)

I know that has a lot of issues but I think it is a very appealing move. Maybe farmers co-ops next?
I don't know much about Widevine specifically. But with true remote attestation, no, there is no way to shim, proxy, or otherwise man in the middle the challenges. Such a thing would be considered a bug in the remote attestation scheme. Currently there are plenty of bugs in remote attestation schemes (eg Google "Safety" Net), but we shouldn't expect that continue indefinitely. The only way to defeat such garbage is in the marketplace - reject interacting with companies that attempt to dictate how our own computers should work, and insist on only interacting through well-defined open protocols.

As for the original topic, I'd just like to remind everyone that whatever content "HBO MAX" may have is also easily available through torrents. Download it once, watch it whenever and however you'd like, and pass it on. Friends don't let friends support Hollywood's war on personal computing.
Lisa made LISA obsolete: USENIX ending the LISA conference after 35 years
Easiest kind! I knew the fact already, and Twitter made it really easy for me to validate it.
This isn't about the quality of Linode's product.
I remember Windows 3.1 had a similar built-in LAN messenger. Forget what the name was. Not WinPopup, obviously.

When I was in junior high school in 2000-2001, our computer lab was Windows 3.1-powered. Being able to chat with anyone on the lab was certainly cool. Of course, I hadn't aware of mIRC :)
Peto’s Paradox
> - People with money/power are not much better than average

I think it's way worse than that, the only things that people with money/power are better at ... is getting / hanging on to money and/or power.

They're not better at anything apart from that, by any objective measure.
If they find better paying works. For what I know they have been fired, therefore they are not in a dominant position to negotiate anything, esp if they have student/home loan monthly and family to feed.

They are not any kind of prey. They are more thousand of white rabbit who are going to compete in the next few months to find job when all major Company in the industry are holding recruitment or even worse are also firing their own employee.
I follow a process to find product problems that should be avoided, find lower-cost products that avoid those problems, choose the one most believably "good":

1. Find lower-cost options that have a lot of reviews.

2. Sort reviews by recent; average MUCH lower than overall? Avoid. Ignore short to medium reviews explaining nothing and using glowing superlatives.

3. Use Lustre.ai to suggest alternatives (site or browser plugin), and use the steps below to know what issues MOST of these kind of products have.

4. Check much more expensive versions of the product for desirable features / problems solved, e.g. Bluetooth earbuds with a physical or app-based "re-pairing" function.

5. Read 1- and 2-star reviews; many re: misleading features/broken functions? Avoid, but note what kinds of problems are common.

6. Check most helpful negative review when available

7. Search reviews and questions for the issues you uncovered in steps 3 and 4. Sometimes MOST products have similar issues regardless of price—there may not be ANY product worth buying, e.g. home blood pressure monitors.
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In agreement: Creating "polished" software is enormously costly in time and effort, and involves the kind of work that people only tend to do for money: Elaborate GUI's, installers for multiple platforms, etc. Keeping specialized domain knowledge experts happy over a long time span costs money, because they probably know that they could jump ship and do mainstream development for even more money.

And the tools have to do everything because people outside of the programming world can't implement missing features themselves. Programmers can create programming tools, but mechanical engineers can't create CAD tools.

Of course there are downsides: Giving up everything that you get with open-source is a lot. Creating "everything" tools makes them bloated. Having to follow the rules of marketing encourages planned obsolescence and a continual upgrade cycle. Finite resources encourages focusing on "core competency" rather than making general purpose tools.

The choice to use less-polished but free tools is a tradeoff that makes sense for most programmers, and people like myself who are not employed as programmers per se, but do a lot of programming to support our work.

If someone wants to develop a free "alternative," their best bet is to piggy-back on existing free tools. So for instance, a programming language benefits from free text editors. A specialized math or science tool might benefit from being served up as a package with a Python API. And so forth.
Most modern languages can do type inference and doesn't require explicit type annotation for variables. Hack, even C++ gots auto! For declarations, I think it does make sense to ask for the annotation because it can also serve as documentation. Have you ever tried scala, rust, haskell or typescript?
Linode?

That's nothing compared to Cloudflare.

Try to make 500+ with Cloudflare and tell me your thoughts on it. They are legit protecting piracy and turning a profit from it.
> If you had 3 days to find bottom 50% of devs to be fired, what would be your heuristic?

Taking more than 3 days instead of rushing such an important decision.
If they formed a normal coalition government, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. But they did not, and could not. They couldn't get 13% of the other 63% of people to side with them, even in exchange for shared political control!

And that 37% was brief and their biggest moment in light of absolute civil chaos including things like a 30% unemployment rate. 4 months later, elections were held again - elections that the Nazis were exceptionally optimistic about. They ended up going down to 33%. Then shenanigans started. There would be no more fair elections in Germany for nearly 2 decades.
To me it's like the difference between living in an anonymous big city where I can do whatever I want without too many people yelling at me, and having to pick some village where everybody knows everybody and forces their rules on them. I would never choose the latter just by my own nature, so Mastodon will never be an alternative to twitter for me. Looking at that endless list of specialized echo chambers of some people with their own sub rules just makes me shudder immediately.
Art is background. Without background Romeo and Juliet is just "love could be a strong feeling", and Back to the Future is "time travel has an unsolved grandfather paradox".
Thirty-Five Years of LISA: A history of the LISA conference, with pictures
Did you see the list? Finding a "generic" instance that's open to signups honestly isn't easy, right now. I ended up on fosstodon.org, which is not as generic as I'd like but seemed like the least terrible option I could find in half an hour.
It's not a program to support small businesses, it's a structure to support massive companies who lobby and hire politicians and their friends and family.
The source code is also in that repo, so easy enough to dig into it. Harder to form a useful opinion, at least for me.
> I'm of the view that users subjected to an outright shadow ban should at least have a civil cause of action available for all the time they unnecessarily wasted writing comments that no one else will ever see.

And for shadow removed comments too? Because that's the majority of it, and slicing and dicing what stays up versus what is secreted away makes it much harder for users to discover that shadow moderation is happening.

I don't think it will work. As mentioned elsewhere [1], the government (as an entity, not a particular political party) would love to be your savior here. If they get to pick and choose who wins they will end up controlling social media. They're not going to be able to handle all of the shadow removals or demotions that occur; heck, shadow moderation has been occurring since the dawn of social media and society is hardly aware of it now 16 years later. So, since they couldn't handle all those cases, they'd have to be selective, and that is just more cronyism.

No, we need citizen-built transparency systems starting ASAP. Nobody will help us better than ourselves [2].

> There are a few cases where I can almost see it as justified-- not spam as its trivial for spammers to automate detection of-- but certain kind of obsessive mentally ill-people that will forever shout their abusive and disruptive comments into the void if shadowbanned but get a new account if they are informed. But that fringe case just can't justify the abuse against more reasonable people, particular in a world where users are frequently actioned against in error.

Yes, exactly. It's a fringe case that we know will come up, and it will be annoying but it won't destroy society as we know it, whereas the systems as built today are doing exactly that. The good part is, it's an easy win. Tell people about it, get people to talk and write about it, and show people who work at social media companies that we don't like or want systems that are driven by shadow moderation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480576

[2] https://youtu.be/aCadmiIfbcI?t=1571
In most countries, banks can freeze your funds or kick you out for any reason, unlike crypto where you can’t have assets frozen if you are holding Bitcoin or DAI non custodially. Many banks have monthly fees, charge for international transfers, invest and loan your capital and give you back almost no interest, and there have been a few high profile data breaches that would not be possible in a private chain like Monero.
> I guess the engineered one would also be easy to propagate?

Potentially, these plants can be sterile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...)

If they don’t, you may have to pay the manufacturer a “technology use fee” to use the new plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc_v_Schmeise...:

“The court heard the question of whether Schmeiser's intentionally growing genetically modified plants constituted "use" of Monsanto's patented genetically modified plant cells. By a 5-4 majority, the court ruled that it did. The Supreme Court also ruled 9-0 that Schmeiser did not have to pay Monsanto their technology use fee, damages or costs, as Schmeiser did not receive any benefit from the technology.”
When I traveled I would sometimes bring just one monitor and it was unbearable. I need to see the result of my work, logs and code at once to debug the code comfortably. Even more so when I'm tired.
I mean, it literally interferes with anonymity in the most fundamental way.

"Everywhere you go, even when you're not actively using your phone, it's still listening." - Edward Snowden

With a SIM card, you are by definition always tracked and identified individually. It's how the technology is designed to function. You can remove the SIM card, harden your OS, randomize your Wifi MAC but at that point you aren't really using a _cell phone_ anymore.
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Ah, I understand now. Thank you sn0w.

My definition of "good behavior" is not misconstruing, warping, and manipulating messages to fit one's own desired narrative and agenda at the cost of the greater public good.

Can we agree here that pizza gate wasn't a good thing? And just yesterday the current Whitehouse administration deleted the message about how awesome they are for the social security increase after the crowd attached the add-on message pointing out it's due to epic levels of inflation.

Misinformation is real and has been weaponized by all sides to great effect. No specific political affiliation is innocent, and collectively this does great harms and threatens everyone.

Like I said, a mess.
Competition will certainly deliver greater speed. I wonder about a couple things.

1) How do you define what is a mech? Would a mech with something that rolls along the ground qualify? It seems like that's the quickest/easiest way to gain speed.

2) How can you protect the fans? A search of "monster truck kills spectators" finds a lot of incidents. I didn;t count.

I suppose appropriate rules could solve either of these, hopefully w/out bloodshed.
Linode's tech support is world-class. At least, used to be for the last decade, no idea how it is now.
So, it means, you agree to the fact that a Engg manager will be be a redundant job in 8 - 10 yrs timeframe?
But should it be seen like that? I guess they just think about uninterrupted supplies during war time and cost of imported labour.
I didn't see anything right-wing about Radley's fact check other than his assertion that it must be so.

For those who haven't seen it, Radley tweeted[1] that of 760 million Subway riders, there were only 8 murders, so it is intrinsically safer than riding in a car.

The birdwatch message retorted that he was conflating 1 year of Subway death statistics against the lifetime vehicular fatality rate, and implied that his stats weren't an apples to apples comparison. Birdwatch recalibrated his statistic using (the generally more meaningful) "miles traveled" and determined that riding a mile on the New York Subway was ~1.8 times riskier than that same mile in a car, which is also probably wrong, but right if you use _the data he provided_ against "miles traveled" vs overall ridership.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/radleybalko/status/15888941041333...
I would also say that Sabine is wrong on a number of points, like coherence times, but I thought that the problems with cooling were correct. Since I don't know much about cooling, would you be happy to elaborate?
There's plenty of open jobs. The US tech companies are cutting back because their startup suppression either worked and they are going to become an average cyclical industry or it failed and they are on the way out.
They are generally cheap enough now that it's probably not worth the effort. I think my last 2 cost 35 a piece, and came with extra filters and such.

I used to think they were kinda useless until I had tile ripped up. The neverending dust was driving my wife insane. On a whim, bought a couple purifiers and it's cut the dust down by at least 90%.
How the US Can Stop Wasting Billions of Dollars on Each Transit Project