skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the distinction between something being "bad" vs "just not for me." Your comment made me think of that.

> If you really perceive algorithmic live coding as torture, then it makes all the sense in the world to avoid it. "It's not for you."

I wasn't aware of this concept, but I can assure you that I don't have such a mindset. I tend to enjoy finding difficult challenges and complex topics to dig into which are way outside of my comfort zone. Leetcode practice is different though, and yes, it does feel like torture to me and some other developers who tend to be rather quiet in general. While it's really tempting, I don't think I'm the right person to act as a community voice on this topic, although I do chime in sometimes.

When you're just starting this career path, it feels like homework. Heck, it's even exciting to solve problems which are a bit more complicated than whatever you're exposed to in school. However, try to spend several years in a row (8 in my case) trying and failing to pass such interviews (several in-person ones each year) and it will feel like torture. "If you'll spend a little bit more time on Leetcode, surely you'll pass next time..." No thanks! I'm done. The issue is not the lack of training, but the way in which these interviews are conducted by certain people which causes me distress and severe anxiety. I moaned about this before in various HN threads related to interviews and I might bother to blog about it some day.

> In this case, the cost of avoiding opportunities that require such interviews is that you may have fewer opportunities and they may be less lucrative on average.

Hasn't been my experience, but I'm not looking to maximise my income. I looked for advice on negotiation strategies and whatnot and felt happy with the offers I got. Others might have a different experience in this regard, but I think asking for less money in exchange for a psychologically-safe interview process is nonsense. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for and there are review sites anyway.

> For example, if the thing that makes this "torture" for you something like anxiety when being watched? If so, probably something like that shows up in other places in your life and maybe valuable to tackle anyway.

I think you're making certain assumptions here. I don't need to "tackle" my perception of what's safe and comfortable. We're all different and that's a good thing.
I'm surely in the minority here. I've been using Emacs for almost a decade now, but I just can't get into the Magit workflow. I've tried several times, but always end up going back to Git on the command line. I have dozens of aliases, shell integrations, a nice diff viewer[1], etc., and interacting with Git has become muscle memory. I can commit, cherry-pick, rebase, bisect, fix conflicts, etc., in a fraction of the time it would take me to navigate Magit's UI. I'm sure with enough practice, a Magit user could do this more quickly and efficiently, but honestly, with some custom-built porcelain, Git's UI is not so bad. Though this could very well be Stockholm syndrome after using it for such a long time...

For whatever reason, Magit's opinionated workflows never clicked with me. A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools. And another is the fact I don't use Emacs on all machines, and setting up Git on a remote system is just a matter of copying over my config and some shell integrations.

Also, on a more personal note, I find the cultish fanboyism whenever Magit is brought up slightly offputting. Does anyone have anything bad to say about it? No software can realistically be this infallible. :)

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
Android warns the user that location related permissions are required. The issue is, is that this is required for Bluetooth scanning and the app developer abuses this by collecting other 'location data'. The app developer even tries to explain to the user with a pop up saying (paraphrasing) "click accept, so bluetooth will work".
We need more land value taxes. Companies can’t hide land offshore and often use the most valuable land in inner cities.

It also isn’t distortionary - shifting company tax to land taxes doesn’t disincentivise investment the way naive increases in company tax do.
I agree but Star Trek was never intended to be hard Sci-Fi. Sometimes it even breaks from its own cannon (and I’m not just talking about Discovery/Klingons. Almost all of the alien species have undergone revision over the years).

So I’m ok with replicators being a lazy plot device. It’s not like there aren’t countless others, like transporters, the usage of large mother ships rather than lots of smaller vessels, universal translators, 3D geometry presented in 2D, every species being bipedal, etc.

The point behind Star Trek is that it presents the best of humanity rather than the worst — which is what most other popular sci-fi stories focus on.
What's the evidence for your belief? What sort of waste are we talking about? Is that waste enough to offset the fuel/time use for commuting?
How many FAANG engineers do you know that have retired early, compared to the FAANG those that didn't / still work?
Microsoft sacrificed Xbox Series X sales for ‘long term ambition’ in the cloud
I ran an overhead-funded data storage archive including multiple identical NAS on different campuses and a super fancy offsite tape archive. The researchers would rather buy a USB drive than do the paperwork to get more space because they had to explain why they needed more space. It was just paperwork, and not even mine. It served to justify our own grant requests so they didn’t have to include data storage as part of their grant.

Anyway, their life’s research is on a set of these drives, with plenty of duplication to avoid the disk failure gnome. One day, all the drives disappeared. Tuns out the researcher normally left the drives on a desk, unsecured, in a ground floor office on an urban college campus. No cameras could see the office, so it could have been anyone.

It’s literally a miracle that stuff didn’t walk 24/7.
5 hours x 1/2 people checking boxes is energy that could be put to better use.
Seeing the domain has me curious, is it a reference to a Pokemon[0] or is it something else? (Sorry for off-topic!)

> On repeat: Make an extended version of your song's favorite part by choosing the catchy part and seamlessly repeating part of it!

John Mulaney's "Best Meal I Ever Had" story[1] had me wanting to do this for Tom Jones' What's New Pussycat so I could play that as an inside joke with some friends. This would definitely have made that easier. (Ultimately, I had a version of the song which started in the middle and "ended" right before it "started" so the effect could be mimicked if the file was played on loop. This had a short silence manifest as the media player "loaded a new song" from its perspective; didn't have that issue in Audacity.)

[0] https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/loudred

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv1l1eUhN-E (Usually called "The Salt and Pepper Diner")
I get what you're saying and I'm against inter-generational hate.

There is no plot against young people. Remember that most old people have children. If today's young people would time travel to some decades back, they'd too make the most of the conditions then. I would not imagine any young person that owns a home to sell it at a discount out of solidarity, they too would self-optimize without any consideration for anybody else.

Young people today aren't especially targeted, they are at the end of what was a demographic/economic/infra/building boom. Those conditions cannot be recreated.
Nah, that's just the state of a new website and an age of internet that has been consumed by the top 100 sites, leaving scraps for the outskirts unless you look real deep. You go too niche on reddit and you'll find those triple digit communities as well with maybe one post a week at best.

Growth will be slow, and perhaps at some point previous browsers may become creators themselves to facilitate this.
Until they get married/have kids and do the same thing their parents and their parent's parents did...move to the suburbs.

One difference with "younger" kids now is they're getting married later...but once you have kids the suburbs look completely different and it's been that way for as long as there have been suburbs.
How is it that giving an app the ability to scan for nearby wifi networks is not a permission in and of itself?

The very first time it happened to me, it was confusing - hm, why does this random app, having nothing to do with connectivity, require bluetooth access?

Permissions should be more granular - and more importantly, Apple should make it so not giving an application a non-essential permissions is not grounds for not letting the user use the app.

That was a mouthful, hope it made sense.
Just as a data point my unlocked Galaxy S23 Ultra has a working toggle and I just verified it actually was disabled after turning it off.
> There's a reason why a lot of these "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" stories happened in eras where you could comfortably rent a workshop with little means and do things like solder your circuitry for a desktop computer by hand and ship it to clients yourself.

If only there was a discussion forum that could match up founders with venture capitalists ready to take on big challenges!

You have picked perhaps the worst example industry, on perhaps the worst venue to write it.
2 sets of AR glasses, hit play at the same time.

I'm a little bit obsessed with AR glasses at minute.

In all seriousness though if you're on a Mac you can use SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba to route audio. So if you were streaming something on Netflix, you might be able to connect two sets of bluetooth headphones to the Mac, open Netflix in two separate browsers, route one browser's audio to one set of headphones, route the other's browser's audio to the other set of headphones, hit play on both of them and then just maximise the window/AirPlay the one that is in the native language (because it probably doesn't make much difference if the picture is a few ms out for the one with the dub). Hacky, and there's probably something better out there, but it's low effort and would probably do the job. Dependent on you being in the Apple ecosystem though.
What "lock in"? If I use Google OIDC for my app, there's nothing stopping me from automatically migrating every Google user to a local account pre-populated with their Google claims, or from mapping those users to different identities, and permanently disabling Google OIDC.
The page doesn't make it very clear, but the analysis at the bottom says that is a message that the German recipient tried to decode in several different ways and then gave up. Apparently the message indicates the key (indicator group?) twice, but was VA in one place and VR in another, so the message was clearly received corrupted. Neither indicator worked so the recipient tried other things that also didn't work.

Given that the message is corrupted and the recipient with the key couldn't decode it, it's not surprising that the message remains unbroken. Even brute force isn't going to work if you start with garbage.
I really don’t see it that way. If I want a free-of-charge RHEL, I’ll get CentOS.

I don’t understand the “killing off CentOS” thing. I’m still using and it updates continuously.
> a good, healthy way for children to explore sexuality” and that parents who want to restrict access are actively harming their children

Again, no one is saying this. This is a completely made up scenario. It's not even related to the OP, which is about legal adults being blocked as a side-effect of poorly implemented age restriction verification.

Are you referring to this line, and somehow changing "not really harmful" to "totally awesome", and "older teenagers" to "all children"? And then saying that this one little offhand line is what the plaintiff actually is bringing this lawsuit for?

> But I’ll also say this: Is it really a problem if 16- or 17-year-olds watch some porn?

Because, you know... Literal definition of a strawman:

> an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument
I'd be careful of such a generalization. Studies seem to be a wash. I'd imagine it depends on the policies and processes of a given organization.
Does it work with nix-shell? I don't know how to use flakes yet.
I believe the idea is that the ground link is still radio but the interconnect between the satellites is a laser. While radio can be affected by weather, the "works in bad weather" is a long solved issue.
Possibly the Nate Cohn thing from NYT in early June?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/millennials-will-not...

This is a pretty good analysis. Yes, some rightward shift. Things to change, though sometimes they change back as well. Millennials are still far more left-leaning than boomers as they age.

> Critically, millennials are also much more Democratic than their predecessors were at the same age, as the chart above on the age gap in recent U.S. elections makes clear. And this exceptional partisan distribution is rooted in the generation’s distinctive social values, which do not typically change drastically over time.
Is it possible to make an all natural smoke detector from Brazil nuts?
Big cities are not created because of dreams of "Friends", but because they have lots of jobs. That's why NYC is still attracting people. If it had zero jobs, it would go broke in less than a year, no matter how many TV shows are shot over there.
From what I have read it was specifically to make it harder to decrypt the messages :D Longer messages are easier to analyze.
10% was state only. The Federal gov will take another progressive rate that will make my all-in around 33%.

Oregon and WA are exceptions in the US. Most states have both sales and income tax. WA has sales only, and OR has income only. Both have real estate taxes too.
Your description of the fediverse isn’t accurate. You’ve had a few people tell you that and your attack on my supposed inexperience with HN isn’t relevant (and is also ironic). Apologies if you took my assumption as an insult.
She specified their ethnicities and countries of origin to describe their relation to the "SuperMob," which was apparently "composed mainly of Jewish and Italian mobsters and businessmen who rose to power thanks to the corruption within the city of Chicago before expanding to other areas of the country, particularly the West Coast."

By only denouncing this Dangerous Anti-Semitism and ignoring the equally deplorable Anti-Italianism, you've outed yourself as an Anti-Italian Romanophobe whose opinions may be summarily dismissed. Checkmate.
I live under an angled roof which is slightly annoying but I cannot imagine what it must be like not having straight walls
> hunter-gatherer

You don't even need to go that far - my Italian grandma who was born in a farming village in the early 1900s, knew dozens of herbs, how you would go about finding them, and how could you use them for this or that other purpose. You can't find any of those herbs in a modern supermarket except maybe for a couple of them.
Provenance Marks: An open system for authenticating digital and physical goods
Introducing a novel system called Provenance Marks for marking and verifying the provenance of creative or intellectual works, digital or physical. This system combines cryptography, pseudorandom number generation, and linguistic representation to produce a unique digital mark for each piece of work. Each mark, which can be represented as a sequence of natural language words, contains elements to verify the previous mark and commit to the content of the next one, forming a cryptographically-secured chain. This user-friendly method not only enhances security but also offers a simple solution for artists, institutions, and even larger commercial fields to protect their works against fraudulent claims and deep fakes.
We can go ahead and extend the criminal liability up and down the ownership chain too.
wait what?

it doesn't feel like it is really stagnation if armies are rampaging through your lands and you have new rulers/warlords/famine/pandemics all the time
running a company in the US makes you understand why companies tends to be successful there.

you can basically scribble an invoice on a napkin and it's gonna be ok, it's just so practical.

in other countries dealing with all the invoicing crap will burn you money and time while in the US you are already doing business, the upkeep is terrible.
> Yet, all applicants paid the $6 lottery fee -- even unsuccessful lottery applicants.

You actually need the lottery fees not to be refunded, otherwise people will spam the system, knowing they will get their lottery fee returned to them if they are not successful.
Sounds like a case of "and" rather than "or".
The problem is that people do not want to live in densely packed high rise buildings with noisy neighbors, lots of crime and no nature for their kids to play in when the alternative is a nice little house in the suburbs or in a small rural town.

HVAC is a completely solved problem by just putting solar on roofs, especially for single family homes.
I'm curious if the author of that blog ever completed their work with temporal Postgres. I know about [1] but unfortunately work on hosted Postgres most often where the extension isn't an option.

[1] https://pgxn.org/dist/temporal_tables/
From my experience, burnout happens in a prolonged situation where stakes are high, but one's capacity to influence the outcome is low. In such situations the great emotional investment is not rewarded by results; so not only the person becomes emotionally exhausted, but they are subconsciously incentivized to stop caring much.
In the second part of the blog post series, I show that they AMap SDK they use encrypts data data first using AES and then further encrypting the AES key(s) with a public RSA key embedded in the application. Not trivial.

If certificate pinning was used, it can be bypassed by modifying the APK or dynamically hooking into the running application using Frida. Often you have to try a few things before getting it working, often starting with a universal TLS bypass Frida script [1][2]

[1] https://codeshare.frida.re/@pcipolloni/universal-android-ssl...

[2] https://codeshare.frida.re/@akabe1/frida-multiple-unpinning/
> Because no one would actually be better off. Prices would instantly double. It's just a change of units, like going from getting paid in $ to getting paid the same amount in ¢.

This is so basic but so many people miss it. I have continually explained this to my parents. It doesn't matter how good your 401k is doing if it leads to eggs being $12 a dozen in your retirement.
This discovery does make sense. I wonder how well it will scale to production, is it as simple as ensuring that this ~2% differing binder material is homogenized throughout the mix?
It's very easy to distinguish. People indicating to the right and slowing down are probably picking up or dropping off a pedestrian. If they aren't indicating, you must assume there's a hazard in front of them, slow down, and proceed with caution.
during an adjustment phase of residential real estate in the continental US, maybe around 2008-2010.. one of the very few places in the entire US where home prices fell, was in Ohio.
This is no longer the case
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
There is actually a lot more review in the Play Store now as well, they will kick you out the store if they detect you're lying about the permission.
If you are an individual or smaller company, definitely. When AWS and GCP join the "don't want to do it myself" crowd though, you have to start to wonder who exactly can take on this responsibility. Email and DNS are some of the fundamental protocols of the internet. If we have reached a point where they are getting too complex to use, what is the path forward from here?
> adult social care crisis, a pension crisis, and in some areas a rundown NHS

I remember about 10 years ago, "the idea" was that retirees would, as their health starts to decline, do equity-release in their homes to pay for their care needs (on the basis that the NHS would start to means-test care based on the value of all assets, including housing, so that if an OAP has £1m locked-up in their house and they probably have less than 5-6 years to live it's only fair that they liquidate some of that wealth instead of expecting the NHS to pay for everything - while those who don't own their own houses, would still benefit from free NHS care).

I left the UK just-over 10 years ago (but I still visit my parents a few times a year and do the WFH-thing-but-abroad) so I'm not as clued-in on subtler points of public policy, but I'm curious if that's still the case? ...or if the Tories reversed that decision in the 8 years they've held power? (after-all, it would be anathema to Daily Mail readers, who give me the impression that they fully expect to enjoy their house-prices even after they're dead).
Great question. Yes. Anything that Nix builds during your workflow will get cached. Give it a try and let me know how it goes?
And if not already rich in NYC then you're probably there because you're trying to become rich.
Remote work is the ultimate way to get offices to become paperless.
The key difference is that Trump, as president, was the ultimate authority on what documents are his personal documents. Any documents that he took with him are presumed personal - and that legal precedent was established with Bill Clinton[1].

Consider too that no executive branch agency can have authority over the president - that would be violation of Article 2 of the constitution. The only legal option route for legal punishing a president requires impeachment first.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/22/tapes-store...
Me too & I live in this godforsaken state.
> And even if you succeed they are just going to buy up the company.

Wonderful! Easy money. Then you go and start another company. Keep doing that and enjoy the profits.

Your large competitor can't afford to keep buying you out forever.
Yes! The Action isn't directly aware of what Nix itself is doing or which commands are being run; it's only aware of the Nix store. So whether you're using flakes or channels it works the same.
Huh? Millions of cooks every day boil liquid in metal pans. What’s the issue?
That's my thought exactly: there's no logical reason for this to need to send your location, so it's probably monetized by AMap to improve location accuracy. The fact that it's not disclosed is worrisome but sounds more like incompetence or ignorance to me.

I haven't taken the time to fully dig into your posts, did you notice if they're generating a user ID? For me, that would be the difference between using it for location accuracy or tracking user locations. That being said, the data they already have is probably more than enough to track individuals.

Reminds me of this one post that I just can't find anymore: a (danish? finnish?) journal bought a pack of "anonymized" location data and chose one individual. They were able to track where they lived and worked, and where they went for vacation. They even went to their place and talked to them, and they had no idea this was happening whatsoever. I really wish I could remember where I read it.
Twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/WolfMcNally/status/1673251868204732418?s...
It's annoying that this has become the norm with basically zero consequences for bad actors.

Seeing this article made me thankful for GrapheneOS. I've been dailying it for a few months now. Every single app is explicitly granted network permission (or not) upon installation. Local apps like this definitely don't get network perms, and neither does my keyboard app (that always creeped me out.)