skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered if I blindfolded myself for a few days and clicked a lot, if I'd pick up echolocation. The key is, though, for it to be useful is I have to be able to take off the blindfold and retain the skill.
apparently suprised to find that nazi twitter, sorry, Gab, does not play well with the fediverse.
There is a strong materialist bias to modern thinking that precludes having thoughts about any sort of sensory perception beyond the most basic facilities of our five sense organs.
If you are in the apple ecosystem an airport express or apple tv is the way to go. Instant multi room hifi, and super cheap.

You can even redirect your laptop/system audio into it with a click in the sound menu
I'm not personally aware of filters targeting Nitter instances significantly, but I'm aware of whitelisting only the top 10 million sites (blocking "undesired" things of course) and manually asking IT if you are visiting a low-traffic site. This stops a lot of phishing attacks but at the same time only allowing ~9.5 million sites is still too small.
What makes the ideal click?
My hot take: Name, date of birth, address, phone number and email address now considered public knowledge in Australia.

I wouldn't pay the ransom either.

I hope Australian companies start to see this data for what it is, a toxic liability, not some asset worth hording.
> How you go forward? Best way is to stop using the internet. Go live in a cabin in the woods. (I'm only half joking.)

I'm half tempted to! But that's not going to work in the real world for me.

Jeez, Firefox... https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-firefox-brows....

> use a whitelist filtering proxy as the only possible internet access

How does this work in practice?
It's not even doomer, it's just plain wrong and not based in reality whatsoever.
A website can't do what you think it can.
>including complaints by people other than the website/domain owner:

Yes, they are legally required to listen to the copyright owner's request. In your linked example, that was the church of scientology. In your earlier post, that would be whoever was writing the tweets. Twitter could also choose to block their requests as the wayback machine would also grab their copyrighted code, but choose not to.

You're making a documented legal requirement sound like a shady partisanship. Unless there are examples of these people wanting their content archived and the IA refusing, I don't see your point. Anybody is free to tell the IA not to archive their copyright material.
If they won't even let a book in, the phone is definitely in exile - between eye strain, work emails, and the entire internet, phones are pretty terrible sleep hygiene offenders.
Which distro has worked really well for you in regard to privacy, usability, etc.?
No support for server reflection?
> It never ceases to amaze me how experts at something can't resist trying to be experts at everything.

This is a great summary of something that annoys me a lot.
Feds seize over $3B in stolen Bitcoin
The app can run constantly in the background. The web browser won't.
I'm not sure where your dates came from, they don't match what I've read. From what I can tell, the Musks' lost majority share in '96 (and Elon was replaced as CEO). Regardless, the business was built around businesses paying to appear from basically the get-go, and while Musk was not CEO for most of the company's existence, he still had considerable influence and when he disagreed with the company's direction, he led a coup to get the CEO replaced. Arguing that he didn't have influence or agree with the company's direction seems not particularly based in reality.
I recently (last 6 months) went into tech away from my home town. (not too far; US town to different US town)

I’ve found life to be good here, but I can’t help but think I had it made in my home town:
in terms of family (father recently got out of rehab, and despite his issues, I love him),
Great long time friends, along with some love interests (left one behind that I felt like I really clicked with!). I don’t know, it felt like life was getting good for me for the first time in a long time, and then I left to go for the job offer I accepted out of school.

I certainly wouldn’t call myself depressed here, I’m active, see friends nearly every day. The town is really nice too. At the same time, I don’t feel the overwhelming sense of appreciation that I used to.

There are some good work opportunities there as well, although I’m not sure if the pay would be quite as good. I try to keep in touch with my friends from town but its already getting hard. I’m afraid that if I wait too long I wouldn’t have much to come back to. Simultaneously I don’t want to waste the time I’m investing in my new home.

Any thoughts hackers?
I think you are misinterpreting what the parent comment is suggesting. You for sure can’t host a Mastodon server off of a mobile device. I think they were suggesting ‘how hard would it be’ to make a mobile app that would allow anyone to spin up their own Mastodon instance in the cloud.

I’m not sure I know the answer to that question. It’s definitely not a trivial problem to solve, but also not so crazy that it couldn’t be solved with some concerned effort. There are already some 3rd party services that will host your Mastodon for you, but as far as an easy to use mobile app, could be a good business opportunity for anyone with the right motivation.
> How do you know if it should open or close the garage?

I just have the automation to open when I arrive home and to close when I leave home. Arrive and leave are built-in HomeKit triggers for automations.

> Does it open when you start the car?

Nope, for that I press the button on the wall inside my garage as I'm walking to my car. I want the garage door open before I start the car.

> How quickly does it open the garage when you get home?

Based on using "when I arrive home" the door opens when I'm about 30 seconds away, maybe 500 yards? HomeKit also has location based triggers where you can draw the circle different sizes. I just used the canned "arrive home" and "leave home" triggers.

> That said, CarPlay gives me a button to open/close the garage (which I have linked via Homebridge to my garage door opener, works 70% of the time).

The point of this was to avoid interaction, otherwise I'd use the button on my rear-view mirror which on my Mazda is more accessible than the CarPlay button on the Mazda display.

> I’d be very interested to see the actual code of this

I've got a pair of dummy switches in Homebridge:

1. "Phone CarPlay Status"

2. "Garage Door Trigger"

I have two personal automations (via the Shortcuts app) on my iPhone:

1. When CarPlay connects -> Set "Phone CarPlay Status" to On

2. When CarPlay disconnects -> Set "Phone CarPlay Status" to Off.

I have the following HomeKit automations:

1. When I Arrive Home and Phone CarPlay Status is On, set Garage Door Trigger to On.

2. When I Leave Home and Phone CarPlay Status is On, set Garage Door Trigger to Off.

3. When Garage Door Trigger Turns On set Garage Door Target Door State Open

4. When Garage Door Trigger Turns Off set Garage Door Target Door State Closed.

The last two automations (3) and (4) are needed because a door is a secure accessory and those require confirmation if added directly to an automation. But if you trigger them via a dummy switch, you can avoid the confirmation.

I used the Meross Garage Door Opener to make my 2004 Wayne Dalton openers HomeKit aware. I'm running a pair of garage doors off of it actually.
Why: to help advertisers target people

How #1: You have a smartphone, your smartphone has GPS, you have Twitter installed in your smartphone. Twitter requests your location, you approve that request = done

How #2: You have a smartphone, your smartphone has WiFi enabled. Your WiFi interface can see certain WiFi SSIDs. A Google car wardrived through your neighborhood saving all SSIDs of every Wifi and where they were last seen. Now location services has your location even with GPS disabled.
Layers. It's all about layers.
YouTube rolls out TikTok rival 'Shorts' on TV globally: Details here
Thanks - interesting option. Looking into it now. Would love to know of any others too.
URL was since changed. Here is the original article for context: https://www.gp.se/kultur/kultur/youtubekanalen-rosa-mannen-n...
Even if you take the US assessment of the value of a person's life it probably doesn't make sense for China to do anything to control the entry of these stages.
That makes sense. Thank you for your feedback
Unlikely because there's basically no NIMBY-ism in India. Any developer can just acquire land, some air rights and plop up apartment complexes. And unlike in the US, apartments in India are designed for family life and aren't just for young / unmarried folks.
Reminds me of some constraint programming example I read yesterday: https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/constraintprogramming/
During my childhood I fulfilled the first three for about four years or so and knew many others in similar situations. This was in the US, any country with significant undeveloped land is going to have areas that have people who fulfill the first three pretty easily.
I can fill in since I recently dug through the LGP-30 schematics[0] on my current (incomplete) journey of designing my own tube based computer.

Tubes on computers from this era were used almost exclusively as amplifiers, inverting and otherwise. [1]

Inverting amplifiers are super helpful to turn the and/or gates you can build out of diode logic into nand/nor gates which then give you access to all of the other logic functions. But if you only need and/or for a particular circuit diode logic is much cheaper with much higher MTBF. [2]

Non-inverting amplifiers are useful to buffer signals when the required current draw is too high for a single tube/diode to push.

So in the LGP-30, you primarily see them being used as the inverters for the nor gates on it's flip flops, the amplifiers needed for the read/write heads of the drum, and inverters/buffers needed in the general logic. [1]

And FWIW, I don't really see why it wouldn't do a good job within a guitar amp. It wouldn't be a good fit for the final output stage before the output transformer because of it's relatively low heft compared to a beam power tube or something, but it'd be a good fit for an input stage before that. They really don't take that much plate voltage (the LGP-30 runs them with a B+ of 150v). Maybe they're simply too clean of an amplifier and guitar amps like that distortion of tubes that are more prone to voltage sag?

[0] If you want to follow along home, the "how is it using tubes?" portion of the schematics starts on page 11 here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/royalPrecision/LGP-30/LGP-30_Sc...

[1] I want to add in two places using [1] that in addition to what I'm saying about amplifiers, diode tubes are also used as rectifiers in the power supply. There'll only be a handful of the in each design, but because they're used in the power supply of pretty much every design they're still ubiquitous even if they don't count for much versus all tube use in these computers.

[2] This use of germanium diodes in logic came pretty late in tube computers though, really in the late 50s at the cusp of transistorized machines. Royal Precision's next computer, the RCP-4000 was basically the same design as the LGP-30 but with tubes swapped out for transistors. Leads to some goofy schematic choices like the negative voltages being at the top of the schematic pages because it lines up better when compared with a tube based design.
> There's widespread evidence of systematic fraud with those machines in swing districts, going back to a least 2004.

Uhh, citation please?
Makes me wonder how much “dump trucks” of money is.
The nice thing is that all the votes with this system are on paper ballots. The paper ballots can then be verified against the machine counts.

It does not stop people from stuffing ballot boxes, but it does stop people from fudging the machine count too much.
It doesnt even sound like a particularly attractive outcome. 70k/year after being a very strong candidate. Wonder what the salary progression has been like over 30 years.
> I for one don't care about privacy that much

I really value my privacy, and it's not that I have anything to hide. I think that's a stupid argument for less privacy. If we're not careful, they'll start installing microphones and cameras to monitor you - for the improvement of your security and service, of course!

I can't help but think of the analogy of the frog and the pot, with the boiling water. We're all in the pot and the heat is just being turned up slowly, so we're not aware of what's happening to us.

The amount of data social media collects on people is a wet dream for any autocratic state.

The default setting should be opt-in, not out-out.
I don't know - if I were actually going to make this device I'd try to figure it out by talking to people who can echolocate, people who do signal processing, scientists studying echolocation in bats and whales - etc.
That is correct, but "nobody was asking for stickers" isn't, and that sort of thing does dramatically affect adoption. Also, in the cases I am talking about, not using an app because it doesn't have a feature technically does mean they didn't request the feature, but I'm not sure that is a useful distinction if our goal is to get people to use more secure methods of communication.
September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon (2015)
What did it cost? Seems like it's not worth it unless it uniquely qualifies you for something.
Doesn't Google pay people to work on the Linux kernel, even though Google can't take ownership of the whole Linux kernel?
It turns out that before data science was a buzzword, it was called science and done by scientists.
anyone who knows to check the internet archive or other archive sites would be able to do that for many prominent tweets.

But yeah, let's keep going with the mastodon/fediverse things
A large majority of the US owns their homes and has been greatly enriched by the distorted housing market. It's a moral hazard resulting from democracy if anything, as people vote themselves into housing monopolies and other advantage over newcomers.
I wonder which city this would be where you still need to bribe the police for getting a passport. I got mine in 2015 and the process was hassle-free. But this was in a tier-1 city, so my experience might be an exception.
In case you weren't being tongue in cheek, the purpose of the scan is to find security vulnerabilities so they can be rectified. If the scan cannot understand the code, it can't find the vulns that need remediation. Unfortunately, you don't even need to pick an obscure language. Almost all vendors of SAST products are chronically behind schedule on supporting the latest versions of languages and frameworks, and some of the biggest names have significant gaps in which commonly used languages they support.
Cancer, mathematically, all things being equal, shouldn't simply scale with number of cells, but rather with number of cell divisions.

This differs by species, along with other cell mechanisms that could inhibit cancer that only certain species have evolved.
Absolutely do not Ferberize your baby.

On mobile don’t have time for a complete rebuttal currently.

“cry it out” methods of “parenting” are directly associated with elevated levels of anxiety and mental health issues later in life.

Will try to come back to this later.
I dream of a future where biochemists can develop enzymes to sort between isomers very cheaply.
Thankfully we have great consumer laws in Australia. This is referred to as drip pricing. It also makes practices such as mandatory minimum tips illegal, which would make someone from the US’s head spin.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays
This is based on multidimensional poverty index(MPI), developed pretty recently. It is a mix of both absolute and relative poverty. Though MPI is used mainly in developing nations.

> This figure considers both the proportion of the population that is deemed poor, and the 'breadth' of poverty experienced by these 'poor' households, following the Alkire & Foster 'counting method'.[1] The method was developed following increased criticism of monetary and consumption based poverty measures, seeking to capture the deprivations in non-monetary factors that contribute towards well-being. While there is a standard set of indicators, dimensions, cutoffs and thresholds used for a 'Global MPI',[2] the method is flexible and there are many examples of poverty studies that modify it to best suit their environment. The methodology has been mainly, but not exclusively,[3] applied to developing countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_Poverty_Index
As a random tangent, looking at that wikipedia page sent me wandering across this example of english text as boustrophedon, and it made me wonder if it might actually be less visially/mentally taxing to read a book typeset that way, since you don't have to keep making big jumps from one side of the page to the other where you might lose your place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#Reverse_boustrop...
Even for the big things like mRNA, intellectual property protection still doesn't make the right results for society
From my experience your first number is off by 3X and sometimes more depending on the university.

But yes, you make less as a professor than you do in industry.
That’s not what they were saying. Of course, your Mastodon instance need to be hosted on some remote Linux server in the cloud. But imagine you could use a mobile app, that provides the service of handling said instance, & exposes the front end client in the same mobile app? It’s totally feasible.
That sounds amazing (insert Fry throwing money meme).

It's too bad it didn't work out. I wonder if there's been any success stories where an idea failed but then later the founder tried again?

I'm guessing usually the first experience burns them out they probably dont bother again.
Send this to your friend who thinks that Androids suck
Curious: any insights you can share on learnings you had throughout your career when it comes to writing succinct but to the point emails/documents/communication?

I think this would be very helpful for someone who's just venturing on to half of your career length.
What's a Potate?
I just read an article from Yitang Zhang's little sister (in Chinese). It touched my soul. A must-read (translated from Chinese using Google translation): https://zhishifenzi-com.translate.goog/depth/character/480.h...

Part of the translation is not so perfect and you have to use your best guess sometimes. The Chinese version is a masterpiece.

In addition, here is an article from Yitang Zhang's PhD advisor. Not so nice: https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf
Have leap years been accounted for in the log? If so that would explain an 8.5 day discrepancy
Tools can be used for this purpose. New tools can unlock new abilities for engineers. I’m not sure if it applies to math but I don’t have any reason why it shouldn’t.
Well, I'm sure we can turn our browser into an operating system[1]?

[1]https://www.google.com/chromebook/chrome-os/
One is an observable phenomenon.

The other gets grant money in perpetuity no matter what the data says.
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Newbie to Mastodon here. I read that Mastodon has thousands of instances. But when I go to the Mastodon page (https://joinmastodon.org/servers), it lists only 40. And there's no search function, so I can't find an instance that I know exists because I already have an account on it (mastodon.online). (I want to open a second account on the same server.) What's the deal with that? How can I navigate to a server I know exists but which isn't shown? When I navigate to mastodon.online on my browser, there's a "Create account button", but that just takes me to the Mastodon page I'm talking about.
Would this speed up counting process?

One party continues to prepare people with "Please be patience"

The other party continues to sow doubt in the election integrity with "We can't even count ballots like Brazil, Japan and Australia" on the same day.

Why don't we solve this problem? Seems like it sows more division and doubts, whether legitimate or not and threatens democracy. Why don't we also ask voters for IDs like many other nations? We need to work for solutions, not gas lighting each other and make progress. Solution here should be that we have a common understanding of 1 person = 1 ballot = 1 ID. MIB should have a postmark date 4 days prior to election day, not on election day like in California.

Elections need to run like clockwork and with precision. Give no excuses to anyone sowing doubts.
Ask HN: Is tech starving other industries of talent?
I do not work in tech.

Do you think the tech industry is starving other industries of talent?

Talent follows the money. And for many years now, no industry has heaped such rewards upon its workers as the tech industry.

Why would someone become a nurse when they could become a developer, and make more for less work while WFH? I am glad plenty of people are still choosing to become nurses, but I'm concerned tech is making the problem worse.

In fact, why would anyone pursue a career path other than tech, if money was the most important motivator?

Some developers might have been excellent doctors, nurses, or scientists, despite chasing the money.

The social value created by an average doctor or nurse is decidedly greater than that created by an average developer. Doctors and nurses diagnose diseases and save lives. Developers work on how to make mobile games more addictive, how to make more people click on ads, or on the next Javascript framework of the week, or the next Python library for which 635 similar libraries already exist.

Yes, I know I'm oversimplifying and relying on stereotypes. Many developers work on projects with tangible benefits for real people, but plenty also work on pointless projects or on projects that make society a worse place. There's a grain of truth in what I wrote.

The quote “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” continues to resonate with me.
To put things in perspective, I have 40 Rs in my wallet now, and I can't buy anything with it. It's less than a dollar, and it feels like less than a dollar.

Edit: to put things in perspective, I'm a tourist
Locking api in std returns Result which is very annoying.
Parody-ception
It's odd that the focus of your post is mainly an analysis of whether he is privileged enough to ignore the injustices against his son. All of us have to overcome adversity, but waving the "life is not fair" wand at unjust practices is less useful than advocating for change to a more fair system.
Engineering is different from math. A large part of the reason why engineering innovation is lacking in a particular field is due to entrenched players, heavy bureaucracy, and government regulation, for instance with spaceflight and EVs.
Wasn't this app.net?
And nobody warned him ? Especially considering what happened to movie archives on MegaUpload and also after YouTube introducing ContentID ??
Oregon has been state wide mail in voting only for decades and they allow post mark date of election day.

I honestly think we all need to reset expectations that voting day means we get the result. It puts too much pressure on speed over accuracy.

I want election workers to focus in getting it right and to feel they have the space to do that if they have hardware failures or other issues.

As part of my work on the SF Open Source Voting Technical Advisory Commission I learned a bit about how all the media companies scrape various non standard tabulation formats from all municipalities big and small all over the country. And I was simply frightened. As citizens we have enabled media companies to “call” elections via these scrapers and statistical methods instead of waiting for certified results from the municipalities. It is error prone and calling it wrong because a parser had a bug or because a random government web server was hacked seems like a silly unnecessary risk.