skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people generally see it as a problem or is it sort of an "it is what it is" type of situation?

I'm asking because I moved to this region of the country just a few years ago and I'm genuinely confused.

I had a very weird conversation with a daycare worker about the air filters I found in the building. I thought they were there due to outside air, but apparently they bought them to filter the air inside and she saw the level of pollution as something "typical for a large city".
All comments here focus on extreme cases: The police viewing you as a possible suspect, FBI becoming interested in you etc.

Here is a much more mundane problem: Using Tor (even a VPN) while logging in to most big Silicon Valley firma that make money with your data (LinkedIn, Facebook, Tinder etc.) will result in your profile being suspended REAL FAST with the only way out to upload your gov't ID, i.e. complete deanonimization (perhaps as a kind of punishment).

Any solutions?
Excellent example. Redmayne is a very talented actor, but that role was awarded for for its acting stunts rather than his understanding of who Hawking really was.

Birdman was very much an actor's movie. I went to see it with my actor friends, and had a wonderful time. Even setting aside the wonderfully long (and tricky) takes, it was an incredible exercise in performing the same scene several times in different ways. It was full of great performances, and Keaton surprised the heck out of everyone.

I notice that Iñárritu has a new film coming out on Netflix soon, Bardo, and I'm really looking forward to it.
There was a time when you’d get a printed manual with your computer that taught you these things. Now we can’t even get Apple to provide digital documentation for a lot of these hidden features in macOS. I prefer the old way.
I can't escape the belief that the Internet is now a place for junk food media consumption and fake (not IRL) friends.
Convergent Encryption and Why No One Uses It (2020)
That did seem most likely to me, thanks for the confirmation.
Motorcycle helmets look cool though. Bike helmets look extremely ugly and stupid.

Motorcycle helmets also offer other useful benefits beyond extra protection in a crash that make them desirable (see https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wfrik2/d...)
Well, at least it seems we can discuss it on hn now, a year ago a similar study would probably have been flagged.

Still looks like most people just advert their eyes.
They don't have to lobby anyone for this. Apple has operations in aus. We have laws here gov can force you to put a backdoor in software or hardware and you are not allowed to tell even your employer you have been requested to do so.

Tbh in theory apple aren't allowed to tell you they have done it or otherwise. So their phones have probably been backdoored for a few years now at request of aus gov.
To me, often the "dumb" solution is the modular one, because I can't design the entire solution at once, but I can parse this string into this format, and then I can find out whether this sequence is contained in the other, and then I can map some chars to a number, and then ah..! the solution is just calling these 3 functions in the right order. Part 2 is just swapping one of the functions out with the other, great.

Now this is simplified I know, but I'm not convinced in your proposed duality.
The new West Side Story is incredible. It's what a 100-million dollar musical looks like. Every frame is planned out, the actors are vulnerable, the songs are touching and super fun. The dance numbers are exuberant, some of the best ever produced by Hollywood. The film brings together the very best of American artists: Tony Kushner for the screenplay, Gustavo Dudamel conducts, the NY & LA philharmonics for recording, Justin Peck for choreo.

There's no way it can be argued to be a bad movie. I have no idea why audiences didn't go to see the movie. But I had a ball bawling my eyes out for two hours at the iMax.
We do, in a 17th century farm in the Swedish countryside. A large log-house construction, the building was first erected somewhere in the late 1600's/early 1700's on the other side of the hill. It was moved to its current location during the land reform of 1823-1827 when farmers moved out to the land they worked, before that they each worked several small strips of land spread around the hamlet they inhabited.
Never heard of the guy he's talking about, but started getting strong "weirdo" vibes wrt the author after the third paragraph of character assassination, largely based around this persons appearance.

For anyone who read all the way through - does it get anywhere close to making a point or is it mostly about how ugly people the author doesn't like are?
I believe systemd can do something similar, essentially replacing the binary and queueing network calls while doing so.
It sounds simpler to setup postgres and never have to set up a queue (unless you’re using an in memory queue, and that has its drawbacks).

Although I definitely would like to use SQLite just for the cost savings for something. Litefs/litestream looks great.
>Before anyone starts a flame war, I want to remind you that HN guidelines require you to either respect other people's culture and religion or keep quiet.

It does not.
Super interesting! My first reaction is, doesn't the while loop, combined with the conditional predicate of the string comparison, essentially promote the regular expression (finite state automaton) into a context-free expression (pushdown automaton)?

Definitely reminds me a lot of not needing parentheses on an RPN calculator, and the isomorphism between Lisp expressions and Forth expressions.
We used to call this "NSL-proof". If your provider is architected to be NSL-proof, then the warrant has to get served to you.

This is now possible to achieve in AWS, for example.
AFAIK no Canadian banks even support TOTP - it's all SMS (or in one case a bank "app" that does TOTP, but frequently logs you out so you have to use SMS anyways). Maybe they'll catch up in a decade or so.
And about those „unrealistic“ deadlines… Tolstoy said something about that. He talked about Christianity. But it applies to big aspirations of any kind. I don‘t have the exact quote. But he said that if a man want to cross a river with a strong current, and he wants to reach a particular point at the other shore, then he cannot afford to just swim towards that point. Instead, he must swim towards a point that is far upstream of that point. He has to tell himself that he want to reach that point upstream, just in order to have a chance of arriving at his destination. It‘s not that he has to fool anyone. Or that he even had to fool himself. It‘s not that he has to swim „as if“ he wanted to reach that upstream target. He actually has to expend the effort it would take to reach that upstream target, and more. And I think that is what Tesla is doing. And Elon has said several times that it just isn‘t possible to communicate two different set of goals to those working inside the company and to the outside world. He has to focus on the target that seems just at the boundary of possibility. And when he does so, he cannot turn around to the consumer and tell them a different story full of disclaimers. He has to lead, and he has to burn his ships. Now, I understand that there are also Trevor Miltons in this world, and Elizabeth Holmes‘. But to put Elon in the same category just because both types of people demonstrate optimism in the future is, in my view at least, a pretty lousy heuristic.
US, UK ink deal aimed at bolstering gas cooperation
Could someone kindly establish what "RLM" is? Some of us have a enough acronyms in the database already.
Just as they did for CSAM scanning, they will push any code that mines your data for the purposes of targeted advertising down into the phone itself.
Simple ML for Sheets: No-Code ML for Google Sheets
I submitted this in light of the recent iCloud end to end encryption announcement which seems to indicate they're using Convergent Encryption here:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec973254c5f/...
You'd think that for safety you'd be able to get cars in blaze orange, electric blue, or the same yellow they use in highlighters. Stuff that literally fluoresces. Why isn't there a paint that glows in the dark for an hour after dusk?
Also, a big reduction in dependencies could make hardening a Bun application something that’s realistic. It’s unimaginable with the typical node stack that I’ve seen.
What's Great about Julia?
And yet here in 2022 cell reception quality is quite literally worse than it was in 2010. Telecommunications industry is really baffling at times. Just like when people were excited for 5G, I'm very skeptical that this technology will ever actually improve our lives in the short to medium term.

Overall, services across the board seem to be worse than they were 10 years ago. And yet the tech is certainly more advanced. Really disappointed as a whole with the telecommunications industry. Maybe that's the field I should have focused more on, as they seem to be struggling to improve things even with technological breakthroughs such as this.

Just a shame.
Thank you! I particularly appreciate the recommendations for the smaller channels. Hadn't seen most of those.
Possibly. It's not proven that Vermeer used any device, though it does seem likely. The Camera Lucida was extremely obscure in Vermeer's time, so it's less likely he used one than the (much older and simpler) Camera Obscura.
> there are huge dealbreakers like sound or external HDMI

I wouldn't need those, nor know they were broken if I had an M1. Sounds like the functionality I would need for a daily driver is there and solid though. Of course I'm capable of looking at lists of working features and roadmaps and deciding if something fits my use case independently of vague "pro" and "con" reviews on random discussion sites.
what's your email? you can put it in your profile. i'll ping you about a potential part-time contract. thanks. psmithsf@gmail.com
Latency to the Moon and back is below 2.5 seconds. Bouncing a signal off the Moon is a known ham radio operators' pastime.
This works only for non-negative integers, right? If there's a sign bit, that won't work right with XOR, if one operand is negative then the sign bit comes out negative.
> we already know by now Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space

We don’t know that. We know that they put ads in the App Store, that’s it. I wish they did not, because it made the store even more of an unusable mess, but it really is not even in the same league as Google and Facebooks, systematic surveillance.

> increased pressure to sustained growth from shareholders

This sounds truthy, but is there any evidence of this? Apple is famously the company that tells rent seekers after more ROI above all to fuck off (both Jobs and Cook).

> I'm advocating for an open and interoperable ecosystem of operating systems, services and applications, which is the only way to ensure sustainable customer freedom.

Now that’s a real point, which deserves more than being buried after a paragraph of half-truths (and I almost entirely agree, FWIW).

> It's good to be passionate, but blind devotion is dangerous,

After starting a post like this, it is disappointing that you fell in the trap you warned the OP about. Being contrarian and using mis-informed tropes is not a good way of having a rational discussion. It is not being cool or clever at all.
My freshman year of high school we had a project where we created a “Time Machine” for us to open when we graduated. Everything was stored on a floppy disk. Finding a working 3.5A: drive has been quite difficult…
Somehow I don't think Apple will like backing up my 16 TB media drive the same way that Backblaze does.
Well done!

Hmm... can't find it on O'Reilly yet. Will take a look when it's up.
OKR Best Practices
Thanks, you've changed my mind and I totally agree. (Sincerely in case it smelled of sarcasm).
Collected TLDR of some of best practices that I have used during the creation of multiple eng orgs in the last dozen years or so.
It's not 50%, it's well over 50%. there's no hard numbers on this, but I would guess it's 70-80%.It's more than most people who live in the US have seen of it.

The ones with a skewed view of the US are the ones that think small towns are representative of the country in any major way.
It's not a bad idea:

• it isn't meant to "reduce inflation," it's meant to mitigate the impact of price increases, for consumers

• it is explicitly progressive, benefiting those for whom mandatory expenditures are already difficult to meet

• it doesn't "add money to the system, increasing inflation," it's discretionary spending out of an already-extant budget that might otherwise go to say incentives to the private industry

Related,

It is important to understand that the single biggest driver of consumer-facing inflation today is profit taking. This is intentionally obscured by those who would rather have you blame e.g. labor, for driving up salaries.

Even the fed has repeatedly publicly debunked this, and pointed the finger at corporate behavior.
Not to blame the victim, but having all of your money in one jurisdiction is like putting all your eggs in one basket. This is why the federal government loves FATCA, as it makes the banking requirements so onerous for US citizens abroad that a foreign bank can only afford to bank a rich US citizen after compliance costs.

This is not an accident, and the fact the compliance cost far outweigh any tax benefit yet the burden remains make this crystal clear.

Edit: to all the people offended by this comment. Ponder why international banking is infeasible for the domestically banked and then question why that may be and whether the state of things may be for the benefit of governments to better control their populace. Thus you will understand this comment wasn't actually about impugning the common domestic bank account holder but to show some incentives that keep them locked in domestically. If you pointed out why international banking is infeasible then you finally got the point of my comment and perhaps some understanding of why some third world people may be desperate enough to use an evil pyramid scheme environmental wrecking shitcoins like bitcoin or ethereum etc.
I imagine for all the same reasons that any govt wants it!

Ultimate control.
Yes and no, I know “googler” and “noogler” appeared organically
We've tried to roll out IPv6 at my work, and after several years of it causing more issues than it help we turned it all off again... We're gonna get back to it again this year, but I can see many organizations just not doing that until absolutely forced.
People are intimidated by beauty, that's why. Most can emphasize more with ugliness.
I once spoke with someone who knew someone who ran an exit node in Europe. He told crazy stories with police knocking every once in a while.

Also the legal structure to do that was tricky, because you want to avoid the police searching your house; you'd also like tl spread responsability on multiple shoulders. So you have to create a kind of non-profit organization and run the exit node through that.

It's very hard work and we should be thankful for the people who do it.

Does anybody know more about how exit nodes are being run?
> I'm hopeful that ... our desire to become a space faring civilization will reinvigorate the passion of our species.

But don't we need that passion (and hope) before we can become a space faring civilization?
We kind of had that space-faring passion back in the 60s when the US/NASA did the Apollo program - at that point the general feeling was that the government was capable of doing good things. That general feeling has been gone for a while now and has been replaced with a general distrust of institutions like government. To some extent it seems like you need some level of hope before you can trust.
Honestly I am not sure if that is sarcasm or not :-)
If you start on 3rd base you don't get to claim you hit a home run.

Also, it's amazing to me the gyrations people do to legitimize wealth these days; the ancient Greeks knew if you were successful, part of that was luck. Now we have people contorting themselves Dr. Pangloss style, to say that "all is for the best" and that they of course deserve this wealth because they're so much BETTER.

It's the weirdest shit ever.
I always feel like I'm the weird one out. The best thing would be no ads. But the second best thing would be hyper-targeted ads because the most annoying thing is ads that are irrelevant to me.

When I watch broadcast TV, I hate seeing ads for mattresses, kids toys, menopause medication, home appliances.

I want to see ads for camera lenses and cool sneakers.
It is great! I love building little projects like this, my problem is that sometimes I get too caught up on improving/perfecting things, and don't end up shipping anything.
TikTok Is Sued by Indiana, Alleging It Misleads Users
Sure, they do.

But a math test is a pretty accurate test of someone's mathematical skill.

An essay about life is a much more dubious and lacks a quantitative rubric for comparing candidates.
"I am in a benevolent dictatorship, nothing ever could go wrong"

Just because Apple is playing nice at the moment, there is no reason not to force them, and all the other players to have a legal requirement of playing nice. I mean, the hog that is fattened for slaughter thinks its life is great, right up until its not.
The built-in one actually sleeps and polls to check if the write lock is free again. It's a disaster for high write throughput.

https://sqlite.org/forum/info/00312b3d02bc0583

Sqlite's internal one has to work this way to support their multi-process guarantees. In comparison, an in-process Go mutex will be readied immediately.
Red Letter Media. The clue is "Mr Plinkett"
Why are you accepting Facebook's PR narrative as true?

From the article (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/facebook-and-signal-are-figh...):

> Signal countered on Twitter that it “absolutely did” try to run the ads. “The ads were rejected, and Facebook disabled our ad account. These are real screenshots, as Facebook should know.”

I'm not saying Signal's side is necessarily true, but you're making an affirmative claim that Signal is performing a "misleading publicity stunt", by taking faith on Facebook's narrative as true.

*edit: posted the wrong link
Exactly. Which is why I'm always less than enthused by articles such as this. With the telecommunications industry, it seems breakthroughs such as this never make their way to the average or even slightly high-end user such as myself.

Wake me when telecommunications industry gets their shit together.
Worth noting that they were able to treat osteoarthritis in mice using transplanted mammalian cells engineered to photosynthesize. They also posit that this can be used to treat common degenerative diseases in humans by enhancing cell anabolism (the process by which cells utilize energy to build molecules and other things like proteins and lipids from smaller molecules). Though still much work to be done there.
Sherlocking is a very old issue. It has nothing to do with what Apple is trying to become now.
Avenue (YC W21) is hiring software engineers in NYC (React/TypeScript/tRPC)
HN is crazy bullish about some things and it can be easy to get hyped (I’m hyped for M1, but only use FOSS).

I came to this thread looking for exactly what you posted. Sure, I could check the site but I expect limitations to be discussed as well.
Psychology textbooks point that out as a Maladaptive Coping Mechanism.
Not trying to mock you or be oppositional - I would invite you to check it out, but the Wikipedia article is not detailed enough.

- Someone with a proper background in psychology wants to weigh in?
True, but that wasn't remotely my point. If you link the UBI to inflation(CPI-U or the like) it doesn't really matter if inflation goes up, so does the UBI payments.

Some things are already linked to inflation like Taxes, Social Security, etc.
Thank you. I will add that the title is intentionally provocative. However, I want to encourage developers to think of an abstraction as something you pay a significant cost for rather than something you get for free, and use that logic to make good choices.

In a sense, you hire abstractions a little like you hire employees. Interview them and make sure your values match.
Laws voted on by elected officials like Ted Cruz, MTG, Boebert. I trust Tim Cook over any of those.
I was curious how this worked, so I looked at the paper.

My first thought was just about how semiconductors worked in general. You heat something up, you get electrons in excited states, and this creates pairs of N carriers and P carriers. The N carriers in common semiconductors used in industry have more mobility than P carriers, is that what’s causing the effect? However, when I started thinking more about this idea, it made less and less sense.

Turns out there’s a phase change here! The phase change is a reversible phase change alters the crystal structure enough to change between majority N and majority P type carriers. The temperature gradient is necessary to put the N type and P type phases close enough together.
Reason #304968204352 why money and economies should not be controlled by central banks or governments.
Isn't WEB 2.0 era current era? I mean WEB 3.0 era is in relation to blockchains only, not the rest. The proponents of "everything on blockchain" they actually want that for everything (not that will ever work, but that's beyond our discussion)
What is sovereign debt?
Why do you believe Signal is lying about it, and Facebook is not?
Sure, you can't have the same code for Python, for instance, even if it was using objects, but you can have the same effect using a hack by copying the __dict__ from one object to another. However, you are still passing the object to a function by reference because the function can mutate the object and the object that the callee passed will also be mutated the same way, i.e. mutable objects are passed by reference, and values are passed as values. Which is how python, javascript, Java and the rest work. Obviously, you don't get to change what the reference is pointing to in most of these languages, but you can change the value that is being pointed to.
This move to monetize everything is a huge step backwards

The guy can't afford to replace his 10 year old laptop, meantime rents and profits are at an all-time high. Seems like there's a few segments missing in the virtuous circle.
> ios ads for their services.

I hate ads, but for most people paying some bucks a month to make sure their 2nd brain of photos/notes/passwords/texts/etc is totally (and now privately) backed up is a worthwhile insurance policy.

I think the argument that advertising iCloud plan upgrades in settings, where you’ll be pointed to if you run out of backup storage, is very benign as far as ads go. Although I do think that they should have a method to dismiss it(I don’t see this so I’m projecting that they don’t).
What sort of role is it for?

I'm asking as I doubt "know about how computers work" is necessary for most tech roles.

I get it, having technical expertise is important, but still ...
Per user. I know you would probably like to backup your linux isos to icloud but besides that the 4tb per account/user is pretty much all one would need.
This is for personal use, not business ;)
I'm not sure what you mean by conversations, if you mean the content of messages then no that is not metadata, if you mean who talked to whom, then yes that is metadata.