skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am referring to surveillence of myself on my property.

UK: https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/neighbour-cctv-harassment...

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Fairhurs...

Previously - Scotland: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=854e9b90-2dab...

Daily Mail on the issue: Could EVERY doorbell camera owner face £100,000 fine after landmark ruling? How inadvertently filming neighbours and storing footage breaches their privacy under new data protection laws https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10087671/EVERY-Ring...

Depending on the specific circumstances, the domestic use of CCTV could be challenged if its use amounted to harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
Once a prolific commentator, Mitchell Hashimoto has gone quiet here for over 50 days now.

His GitHub activity seem to indicate he is now focused on the Zig programming language.
Keep moving the goalposts, Firefox is going to go real far this way.

Google is _forcing_ Chrome, onto everyone. Gecko is fully embeddable on Android, through GeckoView. Nobody uses it, because the default WebView is chrome. androidx.browser is Chrome. And if you want to delegate to the browser while still staying in an app context, the feature is called Chrome Custom Tabs. Everything is made to make people forget about Firefox's existence. Google actively harms Firefox performance on their websites, while happily displaying a "it's better on Chrome" everywhere you browser. They force the WHATWG's hand on 90% of features. There's articles every month on new-obscure-feature-that-is-only-implemented-by-chrome-and-requires-an-army-to-implement, pushed and paid for by Google, which dumbass webshits are going to go and implement because obviously their VC backed startup _really_ needs WebUSB and WebMIDI, as well as Google's shitty, unfinished implementation of WebGPU.

Google is a cancer that grows everywhere, killing everything it touches. Firefox smoking a cigarette from time to time is not responsible for that.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted, I share the same sentiment. I don't know a single Taylor Swift song and I couldn't for my life know for sure a song from her, I'd probably be thinking of her or Katy Perry.
Kudos for making it daemonless!

I think Servicer can be a good starting point for people to learn how to use Systemd services and systemd-run. Systemd is huge and can be scary to learn, so providing a set of steps to get a service running is very instructive.

But then, Servicer requires super user priviliges to modify the system, instead of running everything as the non-privileged user, via `--user` flag for systemctl or via systemd-run...

There are few commands to learn the basics when setting up a new system wide service: systemctl and journalctl. Some examples:
- systemctl daemon-reload: reload all unit files
- systemctl start/stop/status/restart <service>: quite intuitive, don't you think?
- journalctl -u <service>: to see all logs from that service. I like to also use `-f` flag to follow new log entries.
- man systemctl: the manual for systemctl
- man journalctl: the manual for journalctl

Writing new service units is the "hard" part, but there are plenty of "templates" on the net, or you can browse `/usr/lib/systemd/system/` for examples.

But don't let the critics here demotivate you. You made a tool, you published it, congrats!
> The main argument appears to be that code is best dissected and understood, whereas literature is not?

There is no reference to "best". The issue is why codebases are not read as often as developer culture has doggedly engrained that it should be. A codebase is not enjoyable as a narrative or mechanically instructive, as you have implied due to the large number of confounding factors and approaches available. Literature is primarily a form of communication, while code is primarily a means to perform. It does not fit as "useful" literature.

Most of the time, reading a codebase is like reading a manual that's faded and torn and was 500 pages long (now 486). You might learn something, (fast inverse sqrt and such) but this is as incidentally useful as a pithy wisdom buried on page 322 of a VCR Manual. Nothing about why they wanted to specify 2 buttons in tandem to eject the cassette^ or why it has cooling off instructions^^.

^ The build system/factory was making a similar device that required 2 buttons so management saved some money.

^^ The rewinding mechanism tends to heat and kill the whole device for a time. The original rewinder didn't fit the case 4 weeks from production, so a primitive replacement from a vendor was used which has this problem.
Just because people don't care doesn't mean it's unimportant.

So these limitations of manifest V3 don't exist?:

>One of the main issues with Manifest V3 is its limitation to filter lists: an extension can only include up to 50 static lists, and only 10 of them can be active at the same time.

>There are also limitations to the number of filter rules inside these lists: installed extensions cannot collectively exceed 300,000 static filters and it is no longer possible to update
Firefox should really (somehow or another) come with ublock origin installed and on by default.
There are already 'solve captcha as a service' sites all over, with highly developed APIs for their use. Lots of people use them for sneaker bots and ticket bots etc.

This is alosing idea out of the gate.
Absolutely. This just ended up being a company with a mission I actually cared about, using a tech stack that had my mouth watering, and a project prompt that allowed for creativity and showing my full-stack chops in a way I hadn't experienced in take-home projects before. I should clarify, I was done with the prompt in 1 hour. But the frontend aspect of the prompt was very much like "show us what you can do", and that's the type of thing that gets me going.

But I totally agree with your point. I think that if a take-home project goes over a couple hours it should be paid. Some companies do this, but not enough.
Data driven astrology, numerology, or similar divining tools. Find out your compatibility with a date! Should you take this job? Make this decision? High risk or low risk investments this year?

Potentially fun, but seems like it would get too cultlike if it works. More likely it could end up disproving astrology and pissing off certain people. Numerology would be interesting as there's no preset canon that 14 exudes leadership skills or whatever. Nobody minds if you process some numbers and spot some pattern.
IMO all of these bullshit fees are just a lack of competition in plain sight. The only fix I can think of is to simply refuse to pay them, either by not buying them that way, or by only patronizing businesses without them.

- Resort fees in vegas
- Amenity and other fees on top of rent
- "convenience" fee on movie/event/concert tickets

The only sort of regulation that I can think of that might address this is to make it false advertising (bait and switch) to advertise a price that is not net of all non-optional fees. (and perhaps taxes too)

Also I have to say I kind of don't blame the businesses for doing this. American consumers are so complacent compared to other parts of the world. People seem to be just fine with paying whatever price the vendor comes up with and not fighting back (including negotiating or refusing to patronize the business). Maybe it's a sign we're just too rich, or maybe too "polite"?
can they do something about the dangerous segments of the homeless pop or illegal sideshows or the Asian elders getting assaulted?
To be clear: we track it in the sense that we still have it running as part of old dashboards. It's cheap, and every so often it catches an unintended regression.

The SpiderMonkey team is very much on board with ignoring microbenchmarks. We care about Speedometer, because it correlates reasonably well with real-world performance. We pick and choose which parts of Jetstream2 we bother with. Anything older than that is strictly a measuring stick, rather than a target: it's nice when the numbers go up, but it will only happen as a side-effect of work we're doing for other reasons.

Notably, all the SunSpider wins on this graph are side-effects of Speedometer work we've been doing this year.
Future Directions for SecureDrop
Every web app no matter the framework boils down to HTML and CSS at its core. The furthest you can get from those is ratcheting up the number of <div> and <span> elements, then of course making the mad dash to reintroduce the lost functionality through heaps of JS and accessibility through aria roles.

Or… you could use the tags most appropriate to the problem with accessibility and SEO automatically coming along for the ride.

PicoCSS is an excellent example of what can be accomplished with just a sprinkling (~10KB) of CSS over plain old HTML.

Browsers can do so much more than they used to out of the box today. We should take advantage of that rather than silo it away in one-off React-based APIs.
It's never been a requirement AFAIK. I've had this PayPal account for 20 years and have never attached a bank account, only credit cards.

When I tried to attach a bank account, they wouldn't let me: they required a phone number to proceed, but refused to accept mine.

Also noteworthy for anyone else reading this, there are two ways to add a bank account: directly, by providing the routing and account numbers, and then confirming two small deposits, OR, the "easy way" where you log into your bank and allow API access.

If you choose the second option, read the fine print very carefully: they state that they will have access not only to transfer funds, but also e.g. see your full transaction history for the past 12 months.

Regardless, I tried both methods of adding the account, and they both failed with the same mobile phone number issue.
Well considering that the US military has tried to incinerate the firefighting foam they have in stock with poor effects (massive air pollution and soil contamination in nearby areas), it seems to have some utility.

But yeah this whole PFAS cleanup project is going to be a long haul.
Normal might be a strong word.
It messes with the brain which is the core.

Goes to show a lot of clinical medecine is about short-term relief and not necessarily about real health.

If you really look at it with unbiased eyes, between elective surgeries and what not, it's not really about curing any true dysfunction sometimes. Perhaps too many times.

We just go with the flow but, heck, MDs are not even necessarily healthier than you, some even smoke to this day!

Go figure...
because rent i.e. taxes i.e. licensing fees i.e. insurance coverage i.e. rent is just too good when you're collecting it and nobody would give it up
I think the "issue" isn't the package manager overwriting your custom unit files, but rather just the litter of untracked files in places the package manager is supposed to be in charge of. Since some people want to be able to track those files, and prevent them from making a mess.

In practice I don't think it is a huge issue. I've just left unit files laying around on embedded devices without issue. Hard to find which ones are mine though, if I've lost my mental list of them.

(Also, writing one from scratch without a template is annoying, since I haven't memorized the format.)
Gruntwork is the only one of these companies that I genuinely cannot understand Hashicorp having any beef with.
Given that a lot of 80s-90s hip hop music the musicians claimed to perpetrate murder, drug crime and sexual exploitation - would you expect the audience to much care?
> And also blew a huge opportunity with the APIs for web components

How? I really don't understand this sentiment.

The web components API is a gajillion times less complex to me than, for example, react.

Coupled with a light weight rendering library like lit-html, a basic component takes seconds.

- Make a class that inherits HTMLElement

- Create a rendering template in connectedCallback using your favorite templating/rendering library.

- Add class properties that call render() when they're changed.

The cognitive load is a fraction of what's needed for frameworks like angular or react.
My understanding is that these were never just called "x64" though, or at least not commonly.
There would be three ways of solving this.

Government breaks up managed care organizations so that they are small enough such that their counterparties (e.g. smaller doctor organizations) can tell them to pound sand when asked for ludicrous fees.

Government legislated that electronic ACH payments or transactions have to be offered free of charge.

Government operates electronic money accounts and electronic money transfers as infrastructure.
This would be a good thing to frame/teach in the context of business management
Exactly, I feel cheated and I'd like my time back.
Yes, that's the podcast I watched. He also talks a lot about comma.ai which is now profitable on $5 million of VC funding. I think that he has raised a similar amount of funding for Tiny Corp.
There is a common perspective that the physical world is computation. That doesn't mean that it's a simulation, only that information is being processed in a way that is very analogous to computation, and it is very useful for seeing it as such.

The world we live in is quantum in nature, and so it is very useful to think of the entire universe as a giant quantum computer.

In fact, one of the primary use cases for building a physical quantum computer we can program is the "simulation" of natural quantum systems, though that begins to stretch the word "simulation."

I'm not sure why you're so accusatory in this comment, but if you want to understand this better, I would recommend "Programming the Universe" by Seth Lloyd
You've probably internalized the talking point that "speeding doesn't cause accidents". While not completely true, the correlation isn't high.

However, speeding does have a significant impact on the severity of the accidents, making it an important issue. A little bit of speeding can be the difference between a fatal and non-fatal accident. Speeding is estimated to cause 30,000 deaths a year in the US.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa1304/Res...
＞ A computer program is not about expressing an idea; it’s about doing a thing.

A computer program expresses the idea that a computer will do the thing described in the way described.
You’re correct overall, and I know what you mean. But to offer a small and somewhat provocative nitpick: these (the psychoses or any other so-called mental illness) aren’t “ailments of the brain”, as they’ve never been shown to be. None has any demonstrated underlying pathology, much less a clinically useful one.
It's a trade off. For many years PCs would make sure to include Intel i5 or i7 processors but boot off a HDD because they could list a big 1000GB storage bullet point. Big numbers on boxes sell! This meant slow PCs. Data hoarders should look for a PC with a hard drive or upgrade aftermarket.
Really interesting idea!
Avatar could be very useful for finding out what people have said about a certain topic in the past. Linking to the original tweets is also really helpful.

Can't wait to see where you take this in the future!
Well, he was bound to "drop" the ball at some stage
I’ve gotten packs from that era as free box stuffing gifts when buying merch from smaller companies
The same question/discussion happens in the legal profession - and they have largely settled on the answer being "yes, you have to go to school"

IMHO, you can't have one (testing and licensing) without the other.
I don't know what version of Firefox this is, but the version I use is so slooooow using Gmail. It takes close to a minute to finish loading if I refresh the screen, compared to seconds with Chrome.
It's been quite a while since I saw such a mismatch/meltdown on HN like this. Don't take it too personally. I did think your comment (the one about read the docs & some source code) was a little dismissive, but in context of the rest of the thread it makes some sense. It does annoy me greatly when people spread the same thing across 10 different comment branches, ignoring answers they got in other branches, so I very much sympathize with you. In fairness HN obscures the timestamps after an hour, so it can be really hard to figure out the order of comments when reading later. Biggest HN feature request: I would love to be able to see the exact stamp (to the minute at least).

I think you did a fine job, and I also commend you for having thicker skin and not responding to the personal attacks on you in-kind.
Would love to see doctors and medical facilities nationwide convert, en masse, to paper checks. Let's see how quickly the insurers back off the fees.
I think if we sat over beers we’d find some common ground.

I sometimes like to think of good code as short stories. Badly factored code is like a novelization of a story. Too long with too many side quests and you only find out at the end that the butler didn’t do it. Whether that pleases or infuriates is a gamble.

Excessively terse code that requires broad life experiences to unpack? It’s interpreted by every observer to mean something different. Like a haiku, or even a song, the story being told is unclear. Beautiful, moving, but unclear.

I much prefer short stories. A little flavor text, but no time for more than two clever ideas at once.
Yeah the encyclopedia analogy is actually better than GP probably intended because both encyclopedias and source code can take on a branching, fractal information flow. I obviously don't read an encyclopedia start to finish linearly, but as a kid I would start on a random Wikipedia article that caught my attention, and just keep clicking blue links, backtracking whenever I've gone to far. Reading a new codebase is usually not so deep, but it's a similar process of previous definitions.
I can't speak to the intentions of the post above but if you're wondering what "wokeness" has to do with D&D I can share a summary of what I know. WoC are removing some content related to race and "half breeds" that editors of the system feel may reflect real life racist attitudes.

I personally view this as a positive and hopeful opportunity to refresh and add new content that makes D&D what it is, stranger, weirder, and less entrenched in some of the WWI Tolkien style industrial and racist attitudes that have always been present in fantasy settings.
I don’t disagree with this as a general rule but I wrote a much longer post in another chain that details why (of course!) I am right ;)

We’ve seen the biggest change in music since the early 1900s deployment of music on the radio. And it has been a change that resulted in objectively high qulity recordings but almost nothing at all to say or feel. The quantity and enshitification is unmistakably bad.
Applying for jobs now is more like “auditioning for a play”
I can't say I've ever considered switching browsers because of concerns about JS performance.

I'm pretty confident this is the case for most "average" users, but I'm curious whether it makes me an outlier on HN.

Anyone else share my indifference?
Ask HN: Reading Lists of Founders?
Patrick Collison has a reading list here
https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf

I was wondering if there are any other founders who maintain a reading list.
Real probabilities sum to 1 additively. Complex amplitudes don't. The L2 norm preserves unitarity.
> Financial transactions should not cost much more than compute + software they run on.

The fees aren't pure profit for financial institutions. Its used to subsidize consumer protections like fraud prevention and reversal.

> This is one angle where I actually respect a portion of the crypto community

Is there a portion of crypto platforms that don't take in fees?
This is the first time I've been disappointed that I really like my current job, as that sounds like it would be pretty awesome.
DHH: Turns Out Nobody Cared About Panel Gaps
One search found many promising results, including ArcMage [0].

[0]: https://arcmage.org/
> A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable

If static typing is your thing, I guess. It's not for everyone.

> We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get.

Some of us quite enjoy the language.
I'm simply replying to the OP's assertion that "Edge seems like a blunder in general".

IE market share was declining before Edge was introduced, and it continued to decline after Edge was introduced. Since the browser engine switch their market share has actually increased a small amount! So all in all I don't think there's any evidence that Edge was a blunder.
“PARA method” says we can organize our digital lives into 4 simple categories
I don’t think she’s substantially lip-syncing (maybe here and there, but not continuously). I was at the Detroit show and she confessed to having a bit of a cold during the interim into Evermore. And indeed, she coughed and sniffled a bit during other songs it was picked up by her mic. She also got a little short of breath during heavy dance numbers.

Maybe I’m easily fooled, but if she was lip-syncing a lot I don’t think they’d leave these imperfections.
Thanks for the answer.

> Any small computer with AMD Phoenix offers a much better GPU performance per dollar than any NVIDIA Orin.

> The use of NVIDIA Orin is justified only when one needs a device that is qualified for an automotive environment.

Nvidia Orin will use significantly less energy though.
Would really like to understand the mechanism of action in these carbon capture facilities. How exactly do they plan to extract the CO2 from the atmosphere, and sequester it? And will this process be carbon net negative, since it'll certainly require some energy input?
"You can choose a ready guide

In some celestial voice

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice"

Of course, logically speaking, if you don't have a planet any more then your growth would stop or possibly even reverse, but that's just me thinking out loud, what do I know?
This is the long shadow of the Mac v PC ads of the mid 2000s, plus Jobs' own diminishing of the open web as a hotbed of viruses and spam. Anyway, here's 1000 Bible apps that need access to your contacts.
Well, CSS itself is a problem, because it is not component-izable and composable. I only use inline CSS now, not because it the very best aproach, but at each it keeps my projects sane after years.
> Kudos for making it daemonless!

It uses the systemd daemon to manage the services. It's not clear what an additional service would do.
He doesn't work at Hashicorp anymore, and even quit the board. Since the company is public he could have just completely cashed out at this point (and I wouldn't blame him for it).
> Taylor Swift doesn’t understand supply and demand:

That statement is even more laughable when you realize that she is one of the most financially savvy people, and both her mother and father worked in the financial industry.
The energy use alone would probably rule this out for survival, no?
One of my work projects was developing a system for managing the deployment locations of speed cameras. (Don't want to give away the state.) The speed cameras are rotated around to different locations each day. The vendor that supplies the speed camera systems is called RedFlex. It issues a couple thousand violations a day. Maybe around 1-2% of the total traffic. The legislation makes it lack teeth. There must be a warning sign before the camera. (so if you are paying attention, you simply slow down.) First offense is a warning, must be going 11 mph over, no points, etc.
Is $15,000 really an "at home" sort of price?

(If money is no object, why not grab an oxide.computer rack? Assuming you have three-phase power, of course...)