skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AT&T is bad at this too. In fact, they lobbied to have a bunch of 1.5mbps DSL results removed from average speeds because "the technology is obsolete", and the FCC obliged.

Now, to be clear, they are still SELLING said technology, and in many cases they present it to you as their only option, but y'know, since it's obsolete, we'll just not count it.
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> If your definition of owning a device is that you should be able to install an app that can steal all of your login information to every other app you have then you are alone with that definition.

(not GP) This is false, I should be able to install an app that can steal all of my login information to every other app I have. I want the freedom to do stupid things with my device but also the freedom to avoid doing stupid things with my device. It's why you're informed of such permissions and allowed to accept them rather than just being prevented from installing any app that wants them.

Note that I love sandboxing and safe/isolated APIs, it's just that, more often than not, OSes literally can't include any escape hatches or else, no matter how complex they are, normal people will get tricked into activating them.
> Consumer protection is nearly nonexistent.

Surely you can take them to court (if you have time to burn)?
Midjourney +
https://www.mtgcardmaker.com/ +
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/design/bridge-size-blank-ca...

will get you a nice looking cards to prototype with, I think I got 60 cards for $25.
I think maybe you can affirm this point without losing sight of the particularity of how it manifests for this population. Or really, maybe its ok to not say anything at all here about something maybe you don't have epistemic access to?
Anecdotally, of the five-ten people I knew throughout the years who ended up at Facebook, all had a very specific personality-trait.

Those that I knew who went to Google/Amazon/etc. were more diverse personalities: ambitious, interested in hard problems, wanting a good life, etc.

Those going to Facebook though, I'm not sure I can put it in a polite way. Let me just say, in different times and different places I could imagine them joining a certain type of organization.
> For companies that are on the cusp of profitability, or still actively burning through money, layoffs seem to be more about reducing burn, which means you're more likely to lay off highly paid engineers.

Bothering to do a layoff only makes sense if management wants to see the company survive. So, assuming that the only outcomes being targeted are the ones in which the company is still alive, consider the cost of replacing the employee later: at least right now, engineers are more expensive to hire than most other roles[0], so it could cost less overall to lay off HR/recruiting with the expectation that you'll backfill those roles in 9-18 months.

[0] for various reasons; to hire for any given role, you have to source, engage/recruit, interview (which takes up the time of the people on the team they'll join), somehow pick one or more of the candidates, make offers, and then onboard them. These costs are largely the same for any role, except that interviewing engineers costs engineering time (and it's harder to get enough quality candidates in the top of the funnel for engineers than other roles, so you have to spend more HR/recruiter time there).
The FEC has 6 commissioners, and requires 4 for a quorum. In 2019, the FEC was down to 3 members, leaving the FEC without the ability to do any business.

In May 2020, a 4th member was finally added but then another one retired, leaving the commission out of operation again until December 2020.

Once they were operational again, they were probably backlogged and not fully operational. It could be that they were busy doing oversight of the 2020 election when they were out of commission, leaving the 2022 election vulnerable.
> assumed engineers had still been hit harder than that link shows

That's what they want you to assume, that way us engineers feel pressure to fall in line. Welcome to the disinformation era.
Thanks for this. It helps a lot to know other people experience this kind of stealth anxiety you don't even realize is there.
> And what about the car behind him? He's now up on your tail, wondering wtf is wrong with you and why are you blocking a spot he wants...

What about them? Just wait till they bugger off. They’ll figure it out eventually.
How does this work given that most virtual SMS providers can't receive a message from a short number?
>Uplink

Woah. I haven't heard about this game in like a decade! Thanks for the nostalgia.
These companies still have more employees than just before the pandemic.
Build anything that interests you. Python is great for making projects. Search on r/learnpython for projects to get ideas. https://realpython.com/tutorials/projects/ this is also a handy list.
Who are you to judge? Maybe they needed to support sick kids or parents. Arrogant and ignorant statement.
You're assuming the post-2001 security state assumptions remain the same or don't ease. Which is probably true, but a lot of us would rather ditch them.
That difference is self-confidence, and it's both foolish and disingenuous to label all people that have lacked self-confidence at some point as autistic.
Except I run CLion for 8 hrs a day on my newish MBP M1Pro and generally end the day with 20-30% charge left.

Maybe I'm not thrashing it hard enough.
The problem is the fundamentals. The US will "never default on its debt" because it issues debt in its own currency, which it can control the creation of necessary to service that debt (money printer go brrrr).

So nobody is ever concerned about debt; you just say screw it let someone else worry about it, usually future generations. The value has to come from somewhere, and in this case its from the debasement of the dollar.
In principle, your are correct and one should act accordingly.

In practice, it's an arms race. Plug some more sensors and hardware enclave on the next smartphone generation and flame up the zero-trust hype and it'll be a while until you can covertly unlock your spouse's phone or steal your flatmates custodied crypto even as a well-funded hacker.

The colletaral damage of individual autonomy as end-user devices, apps, and services are dragged along and slowly becoming the only gateways into the financial system and large parts of the private and public social room is rather quite unfortunate.
Wow... that's great. Unfortunately, I need to maximize compatibility here, and it looks like this is only for newer (<6 years old?) versions of Win32.
They can't.

1. Corporations aren't allowed to donate to politicians at all.

2. Foreign entities aren't allowed to donate, either.

Donations "from a corporation" are really donations from employees of the corporation. That is commonly misrepresented in news reports. You're required to cite your employer so that it can be spotted if the employer is filtering corporate donations through individual employees -- as was the case here.

American Corporations can create political action committees that are allowed drastically limited political donations. More importantly they can spend unlimited money on "issues" as long as they're not directly coordinating with a political campaign -- a fig leaf that can be less than a single atom thick at times.
Yeah sure, and if mine should accidentally leak, I'll just change it. No problem there.
How does someone currently unemployed by choice with a good financial cushion take advantage of this if I don't have any startup ideas I'm deeply passionate about? I've kept an eye on the startup market and all I see are exceedingly boring ideas with mind numbing pitches around them. "Democratizing shipping!" "Disrupting the collaborative saas text editor market!"

Edit: wow the ideas in OP are dumb as hell too.
This is compatible with many services, e.g.: Amazon, Google, Sendgrid. The one service that I know of that's not supported is TikTok.

I am working on adding support for a real phone number to solve for this shortcoming.
Yet this is the only argument people have against something like digital voting with anonymized-open results. When voting you select, or are assigned, a secret random key. That key is tied to your ballot which is then published. You can verify your vote was counted, and counted accurately. Observers can verify that exactly the number of people who vote were counted, and it can all be done near instantly and completely openly/transparently.

It creates a system of electronic voting that's even more secure than paper trail audited traditional elections since there's no possibility of ballot stuffing, no possibility of changing votes, no possibility of discarding votes. The only argument against it is that you being able to verify your vote was counted accurately means you could also let somebody else verify how you voted. But the conspiracies where this could be a factor would be too small to matter, or near immediately end up getting busted. Even more so if you add a large 'finders fee' to anybody who exposes such a conspiracy.
Different places may do it differently, but SF bases it off of a cap for the monthly payment for the mortgage. As interest rates went up this forced the price lower and some people had to sell at a loss.

Roughly its monthly payment => a third of 90-110% of AMI.
This is bad and insecure. Look at this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rERApU26PcA

Same thing with “pay with your face” they tried in China. They all are susceptible to replay attacks. It is garbage!

The only secure way to authorize actions is to have a device in your possession which you unlock with your password and/or biometrics — and use THAT device to sign interactive challenges or ZK-SNARKS.

The device could stores keys in a secure enclave, but regardless, the keys should never leave the device. The ability to export private keys (as with ethereum and bitcoin wallets) is insecure, too.

Look how 1password does it: local key plus master password. Far better than LastPass (master password only).

Also you should have notifications whenever a new device authenticates, or when you are trying to establish new recurring payments at a great rate than you would allow otherwise. Then you need to confirm from other devices.

That is the scheme that works universally and the further you depart from that, the more ridiculous hacks you get.
In these cases, has anyone had luck getting their money back via either arbitration or small-claims court?

I am sure their user agreement gives them some leeway to hold the funds for some period of time, but I would be surprised if the law allows them to permanently keep the money, with no legal recourse.
It's hard to overstate how clumsy this attempt at garnering political influence was. Reading the indictment (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...), it sounds like SBF made three kinds of illegal donations:

1. Hard money donations through a straw donor to specific campaigns.

2. Individual donations to party committees through straw donors.

3. Large donations to SuperPACs.

Under American campaign finance law, hard money donations (1) are capped at $6000 per candidate/election pair (I'm using 2023 figures, but they aren't substantially different from 2021-22). This form of giving is publicly disclosed and carefully observed. So if you give Jane Senator a fraudulent max donation, you're creating a huge political problem for her for at best a few thousand dollars worth of potential benefit. No sane politician on the take does it through hard money donations.

The situation for (2) is kind of similar. The caps are bigger ($41,300 per year per committee), but the party committees have such a vast budget that no one is going to take a phone call in return for a max donation, and again you're doing it through the most public, best-disclosed route. At best maybe your straw donor can write "Crypto is great :-)" on the memo field of the check, on the slim home that the DNC or RNC intern sent to deposit it will see it.

Honestly these first two attempts read like someone tried to deduce how to influence politicians from first principles. (3) at least isn't amateur hour, you can give unlimited amounts to unaffiliated political action committees, and this is how billionaires dabbling in politics traditionally burn their money. But again, this was all done through wire transfers that are easily traced from Alameda to the straw donors, rather than by showing up with suitcases full of cash or bitcoin.

I fail to see how any of this was supposed to succeed. In the best case, no one notices that the donations came from straw donors, and you have successfully poured your millions into the maw of the political system, never to be seen again. You will get your straw donor put on a bunch of mailing lists but get approximately zero return for this money.

In the worst case, you've burned a bunch of politicians by making unsolicited direct donations that are tiny (a few thousand bucks) in the grand scheme of things but forever tar them with the stench of your fraudulent enterprise. Instead of buying influence, you've created strong incentives for most of Congress to salt the earth around you.

Unless there's some 3-D chess aspect to this political giving that I don't understand, it looks very much like the people involved in this scheme just winged it based on how they thought buying political influence was done. It reminds me of the scene in Office Space where they try to look up 'money laundering' in the dictionary.
https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/0...

> Developed by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, the Advanced Rotary Plow (ARP) uses a network of magnets embedded along the roadway to guide the massive snow-spewing machine along the Interstate in zero-visibility conditions -- like a blinded pilot flying on instruments. Meanwhile, an onboard array of sensors sniffs out obstacles -- such as abandoned cars, hungry cows, napping yetis, or whatever -- that may lie hidden beneath the deep snows.

https://path.berkeley.edu/development-advanced-rotary-plow-a...

https://path.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/development_of... (pdf)

The PDF has a complete breakdown of how it works (and I mean really complete - like "here's all the gates in the magnetometers")

You can see some of the interface in https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/janfeb-2001/safe-plowi...

> This ASP Human-Machine Interface is mounted on the windshield. Some of the worst visibility conditions on the planet can be overcome with the aid of the ASP cab-mounted display, which receives its data from the plow's collision-warning system. Radar sensing assists human sight to find the road and obstacles that may be in the way of the plow.

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Late addition...

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/901/20031... has a better view of the interface in figure 2.2

The MN version is GPS based while the CA version was magnet based.

> California suffers from extremely wet and heavy snowfalls in their mountainous terrain. Snowfalls of 4 to 5 feet during a single storm are not uncommon. This wet, heavy snow forces snowplows to operate at relatively low speeds. Because of these conditions and the previous experience the California team (CalTrans, University of California at Davis, and the University of California at Berkeley’s PATH program) has with magnetic based vehicle guidance, the California team focused on the application of magnetic vehicle guidance to this snow removal problem. In addition to the application of the magnetic technology, the California team developed driver displays designed to convey information provided by the magnetic lane guidance system to the driver.

> In contrast to California, issues with snow removal in Minnesota arise because of high winds which can blow light, dry snow at high rates across vast stretches of prairie. This blown snow can create significant drifts which must be continuously cleared in order to keep roads open. Under these conditions, snowplow operations are required to run at relatively high speeds to avoid road closures because of drifting. Because of these weather and geographic conditions, the Minnesota team focused on DGPS based solutions to this particular snow removal problem. The Minnesota team also developed driver displays designed specifically to convey lane keeping and collision avoidance information provided by the on-board systems.
I'm curious what the true cost of dairy/soy/oat milk would be without gov subsidies.
I've done Paris to Barcelona on a sleeper to Perpignan and an express from there. I think for people who like sleeper trains, a through service would be far more convenient, even if it stopped in Perpignan early in the morning.

I suspect there is not a lot of track capacity across the Pyrenees, though, which would mean the sleeper train would have to get in before the morning expresses start.
Yeah, this is indeed one of those life lessons that is inevitable. I just feel like this is the kind of thing you should learn after you've had a chance to pursue your interests enough to turn them into skills.

Programming is a joy. Engineering is a discipline. Customer relations is an unfortunately necessary workaround to a set of dumb problems.
He does not and that's generally a huge red flag. So many times over the years I've dug into stories like this, and it turned out the person was trying to trade something very much not permitted by the ToS, and they knew it.

People who are challenging the ToS themselves are generally up front about what they are trying to trade, arguing that it ought to be allowed.

That said, this corporate approach of 'you are permabanned and we are not going to explain why because security' is just bullshit, essentially corporate dictatorship. Would you accept living in a country where you could be arrested, but all legal details would be withheld to prevent future crime? Of course not (I hope...though some would). The fact that this behavior has become standardized among tech companies is a major negative strike for the securocrat mindset and the prioritization of profit over anything resembling ethics. If you work for a company that has a policy like this, or uphold such policies, you are part of the problem.
Mermaid looks pretty for most applications and is quite easy to work with, but it starts to feel limited once you start playing with sequence diagrams. Had to bit the bullet and go with PlantUML instead for the time being, but rooting for Mermaid to gain a fuller feature set so I can fully move to it
I loved what ctrl-labs was doing, where they could read what your fingers wanted to do from an arm sensor. Not only was it supposed to be a great virtual keyboard, but it allowed some users to sprout a third virtual arm.

Unfortunately they were bought by facebook and then... nothing. and if they do come out with something, you know it will be locked into their platform.
well it would certainly be weird if the cpu displayed your keystrokes faster than you type.
This reminded me of an evil prank I did on some friends of mine when in university - CD burners had just become a thing, and at the local concert venue where we volunteered, a handful of burned CDs soon appeared at the mixing console with various music the engineers liked to listen to while getting ready for a gig.

Anyway, I ripped the discs, added a nice 50Hz hum under the music and burned new copies which I then left by the CD player.

Yup. Cue frustrated sound engineers trying to debug the ground loop which only manifested itself when the CD was playing.

I never dared admit to the prank, but rather swapped the hum CDs for the originals before someone got a chance to investigate this thoroughly...
Of course the plural of anecdote is not data but:

I also bought a framework for my SO, I was amazed by how easy it was to open up and work on and how much effort they went through to make it all cleanly modular and simple to service.

My SO has been using it daily for months and loves it. I love how easy it is to maintain it. It's a perfect laptop for us!

I love this thing to the extent that I feel an emotional need to defend it. Great hardware.
I think Flan-T5 is fast enough, but I don't think it generates text or abstract reasoning at nearly the same level as current GPT-3 models. This indicates a deficiency in the benchmarks and metrics that we use to evaluate LLMs. For generating embeddings it might work well enough though.
On hiring outpaced need for employees or ROI

COVID era was a hiring boom. Most of the companies I saw doing layoffs still have significantly larger employment numbers than pre-COVID.
This game was so fun! It was one of the things that got me interested in software development, along with Learn to Program BASIC (a game about programming games)
At least one point of those ethicists is to stop people who are naive from doing things with permanent consequences without first checking to see what those consequences would be.

I would say that in the area of reproductive science, you need to be exceptionally cautious about what's permitted as you are permanently modifying the germline, and society has very strong opinions about that. At this stage of the science you're more likely to cause harm than cure disease (except in a limited number of Mendelian diseases) while also baking that harm into a person's genome so that if they do survive, their children may also inherit that.

(I worked towards germline modification for several decades and concluded, well before He Jianku shat the bed, that we're not ready to do it, and there do need to be some guardrails preventing rogue scientists finding naive parents and getting them to sign inadequate consent forms).
Battery and ram hogs.

My work laptop is often at full ram usage (16mb) with the fans spinning at full speed.

I used to code in vim and sublime text. The change in system load is shocking. I like Rider and will continue to use it but it's crazy how much of a hog it is.
As someone who worked at a place where we had more people needing desks daily than we had desks, sharing with one specific person is probably the worst solution I can think of.
Because a letter is just a letter, and although we all know the nefarious meaning of that Z, it's still a generic letter. Same reason why nobody would have grounds for reporting you here for writing that (well deserved) "F Valve".
"Addressing the impacts of climate change at the multilateral bank is a priority for the U.S."

That is such a dishonest take. The world bank will continue doing what it does, which is to keep status quo and prevent any developing nation from having any advantage over the west. Specifically when it comes to climate change.
The email I got said my funds would be held for 180 days after which they may be released at PayPals discretion. I am guessing their discretion almost never releases the funds. Thankfully I had no funds in PayPal since I had always heard the warnings.
Haven't looked into it, but I think there were a bunch of projects for Vulkan bindings for Rust. Not sure how much harder it's to use that vs using it from C++.
Remote is hard to make work with juniors, unfortunately.
If you work in IT and can breathe you will very likely find a job. An an American it will be easier than if you come from China or Iran. I think the USA administration is the most annoying as you will have to keep paying taxes in USA as well (I assume you are from USA because otherwise you would say the country and not the continent).

You can browse Finn.no or the who is hiring HN threads.
Everyone who camouflages once expressed themselves to the world.
A budget surplus would be pretty irrelevant target in the grand scheme of things.

There are foreign policy implications (other countries waiting for us to pay them back is a good thing).

But also, just like corporate finance, if the government can get good rates on debt, it almost always makes sense to just take the money and make the payments.

So some small and sustainable amount of budget deficit is probably a good thing. But we are clearly on the wrong side of that equation.