skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unethical business also supports regulation, the vape industry has been handed to RJ Reynolds due to regulations that ban all vapes that would be competitive with Vuse.

Businesses support regulation if it gives them a permanent, competitive advantage over potential competitors.

Child labor laws hurt my ability to pay for college and advance my career, and it also destroys mom and pop shops, because the school system has to give the 15 year old kid a permission slip to help stock shelves or open up shop.

That's not to say we shouldn't have them, but child labor laws were primarily about children being exposed to the nature of industrial manufacturing work circa 1930 - not anything to do with today and thus using them as an analogy for other incentives problems (especially when solving them creates a principal agent problem) is misguided.
Ask HN: Have you been served an unexpected Cloudflare captcha on Firefox?
I've been trying out Firefox again on my new install. I saw a Cloudflare 'browser check' pop up for a handful of random websites, which blocked me for a second or two before redirecting, and didn't think anything of it. But just now, I was logged in to a popular coding website clicking an internal link, and Cloudflare served me a captcha challenge.

There's nothing novel at all about my setup. I'm on macOS, home internet, I don't run any servers, only extension installed is ublock origin. Have never once seen these screens before starting to use Firefox again in the past few weeks, so I can only guess that's the only variable here. Thus, reaching out to see if this might be a shared experience.
NLU on Arduino
This is pretty impressive. GTK, WINE, Wayland… As a “lightweight” OS, it has a lot of potential for tinkering. I can’t wait until they get a working ARM version for a Raspberry PI or an RK3688 SBC.
This is my favorite book, I'm due for a reread(listen). Who's the narrator?
> Why would either group endure that?

Because they destroyed the cab industry and hunger is a powerful motivator?

You have one group of people who want to go somewhere and another group who own a vehicle and need money for whatever reason, match made in heaven—assuming you ignore the fact that most of the cost of the ride is basically coming out of the equity of the vehicle.
Do you have an up-to-date LinkedIn profile? Are you making sure to flesh out all your past job accomplishments/technologies used and including the right "buzzzwords?"

While I do write code, I'm more of a Cloud Architect and I get multiple recruiters contacting me each week. When it's heavy, I get multiple messages per day.

The majority of the positions are remote and while I reject most of the offers due to various reasons, if I were desperate for any job, I think I could get one within a few weeks.

It's my understanding that software developers/engineers are in even higher demand than Cloud Architects, so that's why I'm a little confused.
If I had a nickel for every time one of these articles incorrectly predicted the demise of cryptocurrency, I'd be able to afford a whole Bitcoin.
I’ve watched PRs for packages and they do seem to get a decent amount of scrutiny. I’ve never had issues with any nix package.
If I may, would like to add that the statement is not even wrong …
A malicious author could embed malicious code in the package and still get the package signed. Hashing won't prevent this sort of thing on PyPi, it just addresses in transit and alternate supplier attacks.
Now try imagining those businesses in a world without regulation.

No one has suggested that regulation will produce ethical business. The proposal is to impose regulation to limit the unethical behavior of business, which is something quite different.
Never mind calculus; a non-trivial fraction of the U.S. population has trouble learning elementary algebra. The fact that the U.S. K-12 educational system is notoriously a failure compared to otherwise similar countries should not be used to draw inferences about the inherent worth of any particular subject. Not least because that same system also often fails to teach functional literacy, or any amount of basic facts about society that may elsewhere be assumed to be known by any educated adult.
All commits to the Go repository must be approved by two Google employees: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/K7oGURi0wTM/m/3mg1O...
I see no compelling reason to implement a multidimensional time series for multiple files as a component of any backend API that consumes user (defined) data.

In what circumstance could that be profitable? Even if you batched data, any number of concurrent users would gobble resources at an incredible rate.
This is a valid reason, but makes sense for code bases where the generation takes tens of minutes or more not seconds.
I’ve been using Inoreader pro for 3+ years now. Much better than freely imho. And helps me get headlines quickly
Emitting assembly code for binary output for easier debugging is a hell of a good idea, I'm gonna steal that one.
The ARM port has made a lot of progress since the last release; it gets almost all the way to starting the desktop. Similar progress was made on ARM64. But that's not very exciting news, so it only got an oblique mention in the release notes.

The RISC-V port on the other hand is nearly fully usable even on bare metal. I know some people run it on HiFive Unmatched, at least...
I used this once when I was laid off. Worked for about 1/2 my salary to start, but was employed in like a day or two. (And still had 4 weeks of severance coming in). Once i had a bunch of 5* reviews I was able to command more than I was previously earning. (I was pretty Junior at the time).

One caveat is that Contracting time is kinda a career blackhole in that if you go back to employment you're both kinda weird because you're used to contracting, and a lot of managers/interviewers don't really know how to see you're experience when you're doing 3 month contracts, sometimes layered, over the span of years. They don't really get it. (Nor realize that contracting is usually really dense experience, so actually more valuable)
Unless you're allergic to the entire concept of modern banking, I think most credit unions would apply. Local restaurants run by good people also would also seem to count.
I fear you may misunderstand. A "job shop" is a company that has a staff of full time employees where the primary form of work the company performs is taking on contact jobs from other companies. This in many cases is websites, web applications, phone applications, and so on.

I hope this clarifies what a job shop is.
Regulation reduces unethical behavior in the same way that laws reduce things like people killing each other. They don't eliminate bad behavior 100% but they reduce it by a lot. I grew up in the 70s and I can tell you what positive impact environmental regulation had on the world. It's not perfect but without these rules nothing would have happened. Big business fight every little step tooth and nail.
Feels like most of the problems in that class I’ve stumbled upon were not viable. Not because there wasn’t a need but rather because the people suffering from the problem aren’t the ones signing the cheques, and the ones signing the cheques don’t really care about making the grunts’ work easier/more efficient since that’s what they’re being paid for: to toil.

What advice could you share for discovering this kind of problems that also can also be monetized?
This is such absurd projection.

The owners of OpenAI are a cadre of ultra-wealthy (Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, others), who, contrary to the name, retain almost all of the systems for themselves. Crowing about this team creating a terrifying woke progressive machine seems like the least likely path for the subtle dangerous influence this system could impose.

> It is a smoking gun that language models operated by OpenAI are intentionally, systematically made biased towards "our predetermined set of values"

Author is absolutely off their rocker. A paper demonstrating some ability to create influence is not a smoking gun that OpenAI is actively using this influence engine, or would use it. This article is a shrill call, spreading Fear Uncertainty Doubt and terror as far as it can, but it's core assertion is build on nothing.

There absolutely is a huge huge risk here. The influencing possibility here is massive. And there's next to no transparency. But given who owns this, the risk goes 98% the exact opposite way of the anti-woke hew & cry being screamed out here.
Speculation, but I read Spotify here as Findaway, who were the largest non-Audible audiobook platform (underlying services like Scribd and other stores) before getting bought by Spotify earlier this year. He had to have been talking to them before the acquisition. It is disappointing that the only option outside Audible was (swallowed by) another monopolist, rent-seeking behemoth.
I wonder why there isn't a $20 PCI-E card (or perhaps USB dongle) that offers a 40-pin RasPi-style port.
> Edit: Did a bit of looking into the App Store trademark and it looks like both Amazon and Microsoft did challenge this, but both settled out of court with unknown terms, and the trademark stands as a result.

This is a great example of how the USA legal system is broken.

The responsibility for preventing bad trademarks from being registered should not lie with other gigantic companies, which have as much incentive to collude as to compete.

Now the public suffers because the bad trademark stands, and the people who are likely to be harmed by trademark trolling (smaller companies that do not have the money to fight Apple's questionable trademark) remain at risk of harm, potentially indefinitely, because trademarks don't expire under US law.

If the case went through the full court system, then at least the outcome would be decided in the public eye and could be said to have been fairly evaluated and decided. A settlement is as if the case never happened at all!
Sounds like a society filled with assholes.
Okay, what would you rather start your experiments on to do a quick sanity check?
Also known as: either you add some flavour of humanity to AI, or you get a problematic sociopathic robot (as shown by Microsoft and Facebook in their own conversational AI endeavours). But people conveniently forget that whenever we dive into technology or whenever an American political view comes into play, and especially when writing a blog.

There is even some irony here: writing about FUD in the form of FUD.
There is an alt history version of The Lord of the Rings written by a Russian author named Kirill Eskov called “The Last Ringbearer” and it is fantastic.

In it, Mordor and the Orcs are a science advanced nation and the southern countries are the aggressors. It’s a great “history is written by the victor” take on the mythos. I highly recommend checking it out.
For each account,

> Create a long, unique, random password.

> Save the site URL, the required userid, the password, and any other relevant things in a text file.

> Save all these text files in fossil.

> Password protect and save the fossil file with 7z.

When it's time to use a password, run a script to unzip the 7z file, fire up fossil, and expose the full set of password files, then access whatever I need.

When done, delete everything, leaving just the original 7z file.

Is it a little tedious and clunky? Yep. Does it work? Yep. Is it totally under my control? Yep.

Details

> Generate a 24-char password: gpg --gen-random --armor 1 18

> Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

> 7z: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z
I would assert that network transfer costs for audiobook sales are a vanishingly insignificant part of the total cost of running an audiobook publishing business. Rounds to zero, I suspect.

This is based on a good knowledge of the size of audiobooks, good knowledge of the price of network transfer, and a reasonable guess on the number of books sold.
Apple TV and AirPlay doesn't support "out-of-band" of subtitles into playback or the use of a separate subtitle renderer, the subtitles have to be linked in the HLS manifest. For a lot of OTT platforms, subtitles are processed and handled separately from AV media, so this is difficult to fix. Some platforms work around this by doing manifest manipulation either server or device side, both have pitfalls.
This exact thing is why I am not happy about Apple being forced by the EU to allow alternative app stores. The Apple App Store has served to mitigate some of the worse excesses and privacy abuses by various apps and social media sites.

Now that there is a way apps can reach the coveted iPhone user demographic without having to go through Apple's strict privacy review, I fear that apps will slowly migrate their functionality/offer discounts for using alternative stores and will increase their abuse of user data.
Read the article and googled a bit - what are more example use cases for LSH behind those described?
Ah, the age-old art of complaining! We've come so far since the days of the best cure being a dose of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps." Now the cure seems to be endlessly venting and claiming victimization. If you don't like the way someone else is doing things, why not take the initiative yourself? Rather than constantly grousing about everything, why not contribute something positive to society and put that excess energy to work? It's like seeing someone going full throttle just to point out spelling and grammar mistakes, what a waste of time! Just look at the post history his primary job must be complaining about "wokeness" and his worst personality trait is probably using the Thesaurus too much.
If I were taking this at all seriously, I suppose I would have to agree with you. The whole thing just seems frivolous, and both parties entirely unsympathetic; a terrible case for setting any precedent we should care about.
iTunes and App Store seem to both still be backed by webobjects services. Stuff like [1] still respond at WO-like URLs and still include headers like `x-webobjects-whatever` so I surmise these are still production WO apps.

1: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/w...
Being one of the 1% sucks if you're a Rackspace user
I disagree because Math is programming. All those symbols you see map to a set of steps (a program.). It’s just knowing what subroutine every esoteric symbol stands for that’s hard.

I will agree it’s been more difficult learning math than programming for myself as well: but that’s because math is geared and targeted for people who like doing symbolic logic by hand. Math people think we’re a level below them (we are in some ways from a working perspective) so they tend to write off complaints like this as us just wanting to make math more like programming.

The fact we don’t have a nice and intuitive way of writing math via a keyboard is proof that these two fields, which should be tightly coupled, are not on the same page.
> Now try imagining those businesses in a world without regulation.

You’ve brought us back to the theoretical world we were trying to avoid…
Yes. Again, Google can do whatever it likes with its repositories. This is entirely unrelated to whether or not the software is proprietary.

Compare Google's practices here to Qt's[1], CMake's[2], or any other large open source project that is primarily maintained by a single company.

To be abundantly clear: I don't think this is a good way to run an open source project, but it is a legitimate way to run one. So long as the source code and standards (insofar as they exist) are themselves permissive, then the community details are just that.

[1]: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines

[2]: https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rs...
I don't follow any particular political mindset. I watch patterns, and patterns in government regulation have shown me that there is just as much corruption in regulation as there is in businesses that are unethical.

So I have doubts that regulation is the answer. I would be more comfortable with putting my support behind people or small organizations that actually care about the specifics of this, then with 90% of politicians that mostly want to stay in power, and benefit off of their political position.
It's best to group all the contract work under a self-employed listing on your resume. Highlight the technical work but also the project managements skills used, the client facing tie and the delivery of work on a given timeline.

I did a few years of contracting/freelance and since i re-wrote my resume it looks better, and seems to be valued the same as fte.
I think the issue is the guides. Prague, I made the mistake of going into a "party hostel".

(I won't pretend my 20s were anything but wild but... you shouldn't party in the hostel, you should sleep, cook, and bathe there and party out in the city.)

Unlike other places where the pub crawls were a separate set of people it was just like... some of the staff stayed on after work? They would goad the folks walking between bars to sing and yell. (And goad the girls to overdrink)

I ended up nearly getting into a fight with one of them about the last bit - he told someone to do another shot, I was like lady you're like five feet tall and ninety pounds and there's like three more stops if you do three shots at each you might die, he got pissed and said "here's some water" and dumped one on me.

Then some Czech guy sitting the next booth over who he'd assumed couldn't speak English was like what are you trying to pull and got amused I was nearly fighting the hostel staff, he thought we were just bunkmates. Told me they should be paying you not him and took me to the next leg of their journey to calm down. Ended up having a bunch of water in the corner of some club I couldn't fully appreciate (very nice club, I probably wouldn't have been let in w/o someone putting me on a list), then walking back near morning to sleep for a bit then check out and move deeper into the EU by train.

Anyways... it was certainly an adventure, and to be clear Prague was very nice outside the party aspect -- I spent a whole day in Old Town just admiring the architecture... but that night kind of Signaled to me I was getting too old for hostels, which made me sad since I didn't really get to travel until late in life (by Eurotripping standards), so it was kind of my last hurrah but... a last hurrah means more like purposefully forgetting people's names and turning off your phone not -- being a huge jerk because you think you can hop a border :-)

Anyways TL;DR: I suspect the issue is often the hostels and/or tour guides actively encouraging people to be antisocial... the party I was with was pretty chill until they got goaded into singing between pubs. It's my understanding a lot of people get woken up by that if it's not a weekend in the old town and adjacent areas.
Didn’t knew about this, thanks
Don't forget (re)installing third party software which the user has explicitly uninstalled[1] and resetting default app configurations for no reason[2]. Windows is malware.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/s31m8o/micro...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055222
> It's implausible to me that we're simultaneously both highly paid
geniuses and clueless tools.

It can happen to the best of us [1].

"" I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military
service as a member of this country's most agile military force,
the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second
Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most
of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for
Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism. "" - Gen. Smedley Butler

[1] https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm
Are you using the macOS client a browser client?
Same here. Reeder across all my Apple gear. I haven’t found anything anywhere as nice for Fedora or Windows.

200+ feeds, using it since 1.0.
So glad I migrated to bitwarden when they tried to make you choose between mobile or desktop use.

Bitwarden is still vulnerable to hacks, but I guess it's a bit like saying all banks have issues, but we can all agree Wells Fargo (lastpass) sucks.
I think that remote work doesn't have to imply remote interviewing. You could easily do a remote interview to start and if the company is ready to extend an offer they fly you out to finalize things on-site before you start - or you meet one of the engineers/your manager in person before you start (hopefully avoiding this bait-and-switch).
Last I checked, most hard drives contain ARM cores, so some x86 machines actually contain more ARM cores than x86 cores. An ICE car likely has one or more ARM cores managing the engine and one or more ARM cores running the entertainment system.
I've given up on being that 10x developer that has a laundry list of accomplishments in tech everyone would be proud of about 5 years ago. Unlike most people, I did know what it would take as my dad had done it (and his dad before him as a nuclear physicist). I've seen the insane amount of hours and dedication it takes to run a successful company, I've seen the tradeoffs in life you have to make, and I've seen it really run my dad down.

I became a lot happier in life when I decided I was not going to follow in their footsteps. Neither of them have been great at being happy, and that's something I'm more focused on now.
This is about the use of persistent video surveillance in American Cities.

This seems to be a PowerPoint? Rather uncomfortable to read.
Agreed! Readers should skip this nonsense.
> I grew up in the 70s and I can tell you what positive impact environmental regulation had on the world. It's not perfect but without these rules nothing would have happened.

I grew up in East Germany and I can tell you what positive impact free markets had on my country. It's not perfect but without these freedoms nothing would have happened
This is a surprisingly snarky/nasty comment "sorry"

> I'm not sure in which sense you expect to "understand

How about this?
https://riscv.org/technical/specifications/
If there are a few extensions buried in the chip that doesn't materially change what I said.
The insidious part is that these grifters make it seem as if everyone had a fair shot at the startup game, when in reality they just pretend it to make their audience of potential customers larger.

My experience going to business events is that all of the startup founders who made it had parents well into the top 1% or 0.1% of the income range. That's why it's so common to raise a $100k friends and family seed round and not even feel worried about losing it all.

If OP wasn't privileged enough, he/she might be doing everything correctly, but the results without a $100k megaphone will be very different.
I don't agree that it's a good practice, I'm simply quoting one example to you since you mentioned you were not aware of any. IIRC, you can find many GitHub issue threads on the Cython repo where they go into more detail. It has been a while since I spent any time thinking about this so the details are no longer fresh.

Unfortunately, suggesting that users improve their runtime environment is frequently a nonstarter for different reasons. (One obvious reason: users either don't have time or technical experience to do so.)
I grew up programming (from 10 or so) and couldn’t agree more. I have almost no formal education yet I’ve picked up enough math to do ML and (mediocre) cryptography and keep up with people who have scary sounding degrees. in the process I’ve fallen in love with math and think as programmers we haven’t been meeting mathematicians half way.