skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "Now it was time to call 999. My sister had already had a couple of police visits about the previous incidents, so they knew there was a problem linked to her flat and came round pretty quickly."
Same. The sciencey bits are deliciously absurd, but they all kind of hang together in their ridiculousness.

Unobtanium that gets stronger under pressure and can also generate power, and to tap that power you just need to weld conductors to the hull and plug that into the engine and it goes, just awesome nonsense.

Also it's great to watch Stanley Tucci be sniffy and pert nonstop.
> Ported platforms include Windows, X11, SDL, Soso.

"Soso"?

EDIT: This[1] I guess?

[1]: https://github.com/ozkl/soso
I am not sure if you are pretending to be oblivious or not but it isn't "weird" at all. Batteries make Elon money. Hydrogen fueled machines do not. If you are online in an English speaking forum expect the majority to support Elon, pied piper de jour.
Thank you for writing that down so nicely. I was imagining you meant something like this but I'm still grateful you made it explicit.

I guess the reason I'm touchy about the topic is that, given that I am not a doctor, I have much more experience with encountering idiot doctors than idiot patients. This makes my fear of being patronizingly shut down for "reading things on the internet" much more prominent.
The filter in the X1 isn't good enough to filter much out at all really. It's more of a gimmick than a genuine filter solution. I've put mine in an out building and installed a shower fan in the wall which is connected up to a relay controlled by a Raspberry Pi. I've then got an air quality sensor that triggers it turning on.

Even that isn't close to being enough to filter it all out and I'd certainly not stay in the room for any length of time whilst it was printing.
Yeah this is what we get for relying on streaming. After 10 months of YouTube Music, I just noticed my first disappeared track. Funny thing is, the track is found in the service, just disappeared from my playlist and the album art seems a bit different. Time to create a job that saves at least the tracklists.
As per the article, they definitely did call the police beforehand. Clearly the police had taken little, if any, action. It's hidden, but it's there: "my sister had already had a couple of police visits about the previous incidents".
This made my day. Thank you.
Open collective exists, although the current open source collective fee is brutal(10% from all transactions)
AKA Don't shit where you eat.
Android 13 QPR2 Beta 1 came out on December 12th. This included backports of the ARM Mali GPU driver security along with a separate update to r38p1. GrapheneOS shipped these for the kernel driver. We had already done earlier work on updating the Mali GPU kernel drivers, but it's a lot more difficult for us because ARM doesn't make the standalone security patches available to the public and we don't currently have partner access to obtain them directly. We can ship them once Google or another vendor publishes the code. Generally, this will mean we can ship them once the next Android quarterly release Beta becomes available because they ship kernel patches months early in quarterly releases.
> Have you built a Billion $$$ company?

I was a cofounder and CTO of a company that, at its peak, had a valuation in the billions. So yes.

> History is also filled with idiots

No disagreements here.
Recently I've found that Google has started to put more effort into this area -- I've started getting directions like "Turn right at the next corner after the Chase bank."
Brevity is the soul of wit. We all have a limited amount of time. For most topics, I'd rather read a quick, witty "hot take" than a longform article or an exhaustively comprehensive academic paper, even if those forms contain the details and nuance required to fully understand the topic.
Those POS made by Square are the reason for this. Always begging for more...
Given that even retail stores have added tipping prompts to their checkouts, I'd say yes.

Plus many restaurants with placeholder tip icons that start at 25%+

You also don't know what the tip is really going towards in many cases. In the classic restaurant/waitstaff case you can reasonably expect it to go to the workers, in the random knick knack or general goods stores ???

Tipping in general is a system to transfer wealth from the charitable to the uncharitable (high tippers pay more and subsidize the business, low tippers pay less).

I believe in the spirit of tipping rewarding better service, but by and large it doesn't actually function that way. Most tip ~20% on everything outside of extreme circumstances.

Much better for everything to be baked into the price of whatever good or service it is.
WhatsApp wasn't originally a product from Facebook. They bought it in 2014 and the article I found about them fully launching end-to-end encryption in 2016 says that it was in rollout for the prior year on various platforms, which would imply they had already been working on it before that; I've always understood it to be a thing that Facebook took seriously pretty quickly after getting WhatsApp.

https://threatpost.com/whatsapp-adds-end-to-end-encryption-t...

> “Over the past year, we’ve been progressively rolling out Signal Protocol support for all WhatsApp communication across all WhatsApp clients. This includes chats, group chats, attachments, voice notes, and voice calls across Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Nokia S40, Nokia S60, Blackberry, and BB10,” wrote Open Whisper Systems founder, Moxie Marlinspike.
Well it could also ended horribly in a different way if they didn't act.
Anyone know what he actually posted? I'm trying to find that to get some context. I'm sure it was awful if it was on the Daily Stormer but, I'm interested to see how awful.

Edit:

I found one of the articles referenced in the complaint[1]. They allege he wrote 800 articles for the site but that's the only one they're associating to him as far as I can tell? However, I'm not very good at reading legal docs.

Located here[2].

[1]: https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2018...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180804012045/https://dailystor...
The problem with rooting the phone is that it actually compromises features like verified boot and selinux namespacing. I still want those security features for daily use. I still need a way around this, but it at least has to be technically secure. It will obviously still be open to social engineering attacks.

For your suggestion, sadly you somehow need to get steam's otp secret first, which is held in the apps data directory. Therefore you would need root/priv-esc to get to it.
"Collect evidence and get the authorities involved!" is excellent advice.

Though if other options were exhausted, I'd be more prepared to "give it a go" in the UK than in the US. Stricter gun laws mean you're unlikely to be confronted with a firearm, and if outnumbered and tempers are kept at bay the person would be more likely to run or surrender. Think I would have had more than two people on my side.
Firstly there’s zero chance this was the guy’s first rodeo. Second, without a custodial sentence it wont be his last. When these stories end in tragedy there’s always the part of the story that goes something like “…X had previously been reported on no fewer than Y occasions for similar behaviour.”
When you don't follow the law and all lawful procedures around those laws.
The latest code on the master branch of displayplacer supports this. Run `displayplacer "id:34686E82-0CED-DF86-AFC7-AA1A8EB5CFC0 enabled:false"` with your screen ID and it will set the screen to all black plus remove the screen from the view of the OS. I'll cut the next release version after I add native Apple silicon support.
PayPal doesn’t let you cancel subscriptions from the service side.
An honest account of my own founder burnout
I realized I was burned out and wanted a path out of the CEO role. Here’s my honest story.
I know this kind of hate exists but it never ceases to amaze me when I see it first hand.
Yeah, I've sold over $1M worth of stuff on eBay since 2011 and have mostly good things to say about them.

Much better support than eBay or Amazon, at least for merchants, and the few times I've needed them as a customer they've helped me out. Even one time when I was socially engineered into ticking the "item received" when I hadn't received the item, they helped me get a refund.

I think a lot of the bad stories you hear about them come from people upset at the customer being always given the benefit of the doubt, even in suspicious fraud situations (e.g. where the customer has 3 positive feedback and the seller has 10,000). It's bullshit, but from a business perspective it's a small price to pay so that your customers don't think "am I about to get scammed?" every time they click the Buy It Now button.

If you drill down a bit too, you'll find a sizable minority of people who lost their shit at support staff then act surprised when they don't get any help.
Can you tell a bit more about how it actually felt? :)
In what universe was Casablanca low budget? Inflation adjusted it was over $30 million dollars.
At no point did I suggest cognitive work was less real.

And what point is knowing where to place the chalk if there is no machine upon which to place it. Proximity is important. Then there is the matter of scale and a question of how many pure knowledge experts are really needed.
I use it for small recurring payments to some online services. Some online services only accept Paypal so I just pay via Paypal using my stored Amex/Visa details and Paypal process the payment and passes it on to the service operator. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Also means I only need to update my card details in one place when I switch cards or get a replacement card. No problems and in some ways the UX is better than using a traditional Visa/MC/Amex processor.
I run a homemade script to scrape my profiles on Mixcloud and YouTube for my activity. Hardly a good universal solution I'm afraid.
With all the new materials that you can get I think a combination of both (plus venting to outside) is needed for real protection.

The current hot new printer is the Bambu Lab X1. It's aimed at consumers and is capable of printing things like Carbon Fiber Nylon, Polycarbonate and Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). These are far more volatile than run of the mill PLA and theres less studies available on their long term effects so take as many precautions as possible should be the message.
There's nothing about anything that anyone prefers over a phone with working internet...

It's almost like a local maximum, if you plot (total happiness-total boredom) against (total screen hours).

Almost no individual activity is more appealing than scrolling (As we can infer from most people's behavior these days), but people will tell you that they want a life that isn't just scrolling and mobile games, and people are happier when they do more than screens.
My old w98 machine had a 60 GB disk and for sure lasted far more than microSD's.
That doesn't mean it didn't work; in fact, quite the opposite!
Science article titled as a yes/no question? Then the answer is almost certainly "no", because if the answer was "yes", the statement itself would have generated more than enough clicks.

So, reading the article, the answer is in fact "We don't know. Nor is there enough evidence right now to even guess" for that perfect time-wasting double whammy. Nice! What lovely click bait.
So I’ve been thinking about this for a good long while now and I’m not really sure whether this increases the security of your account or not.

On one hand, you can’t accidentally or absent-mindedly approve a request from someone else on your phone with a YubiKey. On the other hand, with device 2FA you generally need to be present (Face or Touch).

If someone were to steal your yubikey then they’d be able to perform a step that previously you’d have needed to be there for.

I’m guessing MFA (password + presence + YubiKey) is too much of a catastrophic lockout risk to be supported.
Indeed, the article mentions using data from nuclear tests. Presumably “we just need to wait” includes waiting for a nuke to detonate somewhere. It’s not the 1960s anymore. I don’t think setting off a nuke as an intervention for measuring the earth’s core is a very popular idea these days.
Maybe BertVIZ? https://github.com/jessevig/bertviz
Dude, have you ever tried the .gitignore trick? It really does come in handy.

And your overall tone was uncalled-for. Cheers.
Perhaps but not at any of the companies currently doing the layoffs.
I do have longtime priors, but there are always new things to learn. Thanks.
Why would you keep tipping if you think the system needs overhaul? People should just quit tipping and the employers will suddenly give a way to finance wages from what they earn.
They say that in the article, but at the actual checkout the only options listed rn are paypal and credit card. Also, honestly not even sure my banks debit card would work with something like that, only thing I ever used for paying online is ideal (a dutch payment standard)
ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor
If you are using ChatGPT, perplexity would be probably better, although it gives answers more like snippets than full answers.

It shows the sources it used, so its much more usable, rather than endless hallucinations that you can't easily catch.

https://www.perplexity.ai/
I'd imagine most people making donations are using their personal accounts which are unlikely to be paid subscriptions.
Don't get me wrong, having to reboot your device to update your browser is silly. But if the choice is between that and waiting until a vulnerability is actively exploited before it's patched, anyone who cares about security will choose the former.

It's very obvious when something like Heartbleed comes around which affects a ton of operating systems, and Windows and iOS and major Linux distros are patched in like a week and then there's a chart to look at for which manufacturer and model and carrier on whether or not you'll see a fix in the next couple months or ever.
Neat, but I agree that the lock-in if you use it once in your commercial uses (YT videos for example) is a bit extreme.
Ruby provides a complete hackability/customization framework for you to use. So library locked-in is out of place.

For example, you use a library which gives you 99% of functionalities you want. Now there's a 1% use case you want different behaviour and you can't directly modify library code. There's an escape hatch here, it's Ruby. It's like "fork" on steroid.

Why Rails ? Because it's the "only" web framework in Ruby. No second choice for large scale application.
Maybe you can with heroic effort, but you shouldn't. You should build within the constraints of your tools. HW + Stimulus are great - good enough for what most web apps need to do. It gives you "traditional web app, with a bit of realtime updating" - which is the perfect fit for most web apps.

But you wouldn't want to use it for a fully interactive desktop style application with lots of interacting components.
There's nothing special about the ram for either bandwidth or efficiency.
They acted as brothers are expected to act - outraged at the mistreatment of their sister, determined to catch the guy, doing everything in their power to keep her safe.

It's arguable whether the police would/could help, and how far they'd go/have the resources to pursue the matter.

In older times, three brothers knocking on your door would be the end of it. Either total capitulation, or some kind of accident.

I feel they showed considerable restraint.
I watched "The Core" yesterday, wtf.
Yes, the competition wasn’t very strong. You may think Fortran’s I/O was bad, but at least it had I/O, unlike Algol 60 (the standard didn’t define I/O, so every compiler invented its own way of doing I/O)
Playing for the Front of the Jersey
I use it as a customer quite a bit, it works well and I have no complaints.
Blind post is no longer there.

Anyways, I didn't understand the acronyms so I decided to feed it to GPT and it definitely made it easier to understand:

Google is using a formula to determine which employees will be laid off (known as RIF: Reduction in Force)

The formula takes into account various factors such as location of labor (with US Premium Plus areas being more heavily impacted), tenure and performance in the current level, "runway" of compensation (the difference between base salary and maximum potential salary), and promo velocity (how quickly the employee has been promoted within the company)

This formula calculates a "number" for each employee based on these factors

Each Product Area Vice President (PA VP) is given a percentage of employees they must lay off

Employees with a score below a certain threshold, determined by the formula, will be laid off
You misunderstand, and perhaps I didn't describe the situation well enough, but you also seem incredibly bitter.

Imagine that you join a small subreddit focused on a hobby for which there's a lot of corporate-induced bullshit and not a whole lot of real information unless you've talked to actual experts in an informal setting (as in, company owners and manufacturers). It has maybe 400 members at the time, and most of those users come from other forums you recognize. Most of the users in that forum are past the novice phase for the most part, so their interest is a focus on deeper discussions that can further their own knowledge and expertise within that hobby.

As time goes on, more and more new people start posting, including many who are neophytes and can't tell their heads from their asses. They start to flood the forum with images of whatever it is they've just purchased and make the content that experienced members like to exchange harder and harder to find.

Meanwhile, the head mod is absent, he basically squatted on the subreddit, but reddit rules don't actually require one to maintain much activity in the sub. So the moderation team that actually has guidance and leadership are also a bunch of neophytes who begged for moderator status. They don't see anything wrong with the sheer lack of content in the subreddit because the sub is growing by thousands a month, but in the process all of the people who have actual knowledge of the topic are being driven off.

So now there's a crisis on multiple fronts: (1) the people who actually know what they're talking about are being driven off and not being replaced and so the sub is literally getting dumber on a daily basis, (2) you've got a core group of folks who actually used to be central to discussions who are now so incensed by moderator indifference that they're acting like idiots on the subreddit, and (3) the mods are paralyzed because they don't want to piss ANYBODY off.

That shit is dysfunctional. I agreed with the group of jerks that the subreddit needed to have a shift in what's allowable because it was nigh-impossible to find comment threads worth reading, but I also told them earlier that their best bet would be to create their own subreddit with their own rules (which is exactly what I did when they wanted to forbid talk about a specific topic... that sub has 30K or so readers now), and they wanted none of that. Since the mods were committed to growing the sub and not making the recommended changes, I told the mods after a while of watching these people behave like idiots that the best thing to do was to ban them. Didn't matter that I agreed with them in principle, the way they were going about trying to get the changes they wanted was belligerent.
Not sure why but this link doesn't open for me. I found the same article on the regular kotaku.com page here: https://kotaku.com/rare-pokemon-game-worth-yellow-wata-games....

In any case, later on in the article it discusses that the buyer and seller are "working through the dispute process with PayPal, which is currently ongoing". Considering the value of the cartridge, did the buyer not opt to buy insurance on the shipment? Does PayPal offer insurance on purchases? For something such high value, not purchasing insurance seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
It used to be the case that iphones were way ahead of security in android. With the efforts that have gone into improving things in the last few years and Google stepping up the quality of their hardware security with their Pixel lines that is no longer the case.
iPhones also have nasty (sometimes unpatchable) vulns. Android gets ever stronger protections against malicious apps, doesnt rely so much on Malware being screened from the store (malware regularly gets through onto both Play Store and Apples App Store)
I can build a backend service that can scale in 1 day with Rails.
Was really shocked to go through my normal Starbucks drive thru recently and was verbally asked “are you going to leave a tip?” and they thrust the card reader in my face which starts with a $1 tip as the first option you see on the left hand side. You have to hunt for the “No”. Of course Starbucks knows their target, those that feel too embarrassed if they don’t leave a $1 tip. (I paid). I tell myself, not again. Then I was back there today and paid it again. They got me. Not again.
I'd even argue that darning socks might be more relevant to everyday life than map reading, even though map reading is more important in emergencies and people should probably know both.

If you can darn socks you can probably fix holes in your pants, and if you have a car charger, getting lost happens a lot less than clothes repair, at least in the city.
Hint: the actual Nazis are the Nazis.
> It's unrealistic to assume that the cop's chance of success is 0%.

It's realistic to assume that they'd have better odds of getting what they want by putting down the wrench and trying something other than torture :

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/slightly-blighty/201...

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-ticking-bomb-dilemm...
Did you mean: _that was a really good movie_?

But actually, I can rewatch that movie endlessly on repeat
They've been pretty good about this in the past, with iCloud E2EE my phone refused to let me enable it without updating all associated devices.
Highly recommend High Noon on the Electronic Frontier for a glimpse of the cautious optimism of the late-80s, early-90s Internet. Book was way ahead of its time in many ways. It kind of missed mobile computing (phones) but most of the social and ethical issues in computing it covered are still relevant and debated today.
Except they did:

>Now it was time to call 999. My sister had already had a couple of police visits about the previous incidents, so they knew there was a problem linked to her flat and came round pretty quickly.
Former navigator here ready to go. I was just like that, unforgettable memories
Cowardice: the post. Cops won’t care or do anything near me. Dangerous confrontation > dead/raped sister any day of the week.
Maybe or maybe not.

It depends on your delivery and their attitude. I’ve been asked several times to give people raises. If they were worth it, I honored it. If not, I either told them to go get an offer somewhere and bring it back and I would match it, or that the time wasn’t right.

Hopefully you work for mature people who would see this as an opportunity for a discussion.
Ah, thanks for the response. My confusion is that in American building, the term sheathing usually just refers to the outer layer of plywood that nails to the studs.

Edit to add: this really hasn't changed all that much in the past 100 years. Our house is over 100 years old, and is built very similarly to a modern stick framed house, with the exception of not having insulation (when built), and with the sheathing being planks instead of plywood. Also, the lath&plaster interior walls were a lot more involved in making than modern drywall finishing.
Well, we haven't started drilling mantle-depth geothermal vents on an industrial scale yet. That day might be coming though.