skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think even the web app does the encryption in the browser.

The bitwarden windows app and the browser extension are more or less just the web app inside a webview.
Fair enough, so their audience also includes the crypto-Republican wing of the Democratic party.
So does Apple, for even longer than Amazon and B&H since Apple has had physical locations in most states for longer than Amazon and B&H, so they always had to remit sales tax to most states.
Yes, following the chain of addresses is pretty easy, but proving who owns which address is not.

Using the new tech like Schnorr signatures is not "a complicated setup" that "has to be maintained perfectly." It is (or will be soon) built-in to the wallet software. You won't have to think about it. Maybe you read a lot about early Bitcoin wallets that didn't even provide unique addresses for each transaction (was that ever even a thing?) but times have changed. The ecosystem just gets better and better.

Also, did you read the article I linked to? In another thread I provided some more explanation and links:

All the chain analysis you have heard of is based on likely patterns and typical behavior of address use in common Bitcoin wallet software. New signature and script schemes have been added to Bitcoin in the past several years that disrupt those patterns and make it even harder to find connections between addresses.

Further reading:

https://river.com/learn/bitcoin-privacy-and-anonymity/

https://river.com/learn/what-is-taproot/

On the business transparency, you seem to completely ignore the cryptographic proof businesses can provide, that's not the same statement that businesses have been making since ancient times. It's a mathematical guarantee. All the rest you point out is true though, and so you are right that it's not a total elimination of potential fraud.
Of course I'm important in this context. The context is literally me talking about issues that _I_ find with macos. Saying 'company X does Y because company X's policy is do to Y' is a useless truism that adds nothing to the conversation.
Thank you for working to create one of the tools which is obviously on the list of the most valuable and beneficial to computer security. Perhaps only second to netfilter.

And I'm really sorry so many people have decided they're going to imply something is wrong or broken with it for their own clout. Or because they've bought into the lie that no code written in C can be safe or correct.

For what it's worth, I and all the engineers I willingly associate with (read: the ones who I respect) all have said the exact same thing. Switching to rust here, just 'cause, isn't going to meaningfully increase anyone's security. But what are you gonna do. Other than ask people to be honest?

Annoying fanboys aside... again, *thank you*! The computer security world is meaningfully better because of your work, and that's something the RIIR fad will never be able to replace :)
This is completely irrelevant but I grew up in Stony Brook and have never seen the name anywhere outside of Stony Brook. Ever. Nor have I ever seen anyone be confused into thinking Stony Brook is one word.

The author potentially pays very little attention to their surroundings. It must make them a better programmer (/s)

On a serious note, I pretty strongly disagree that slower and longer feedback loops on potential logical errors leads to better critical thinking. It may lead to less rounds of errors, but that’s probably it.
> The recent push for return to office seems to indicate that many places are not capable of managing what their workers actually produce.

It's not that they can't, it's that the people in power to make this change would themselves be obsoleted if they do so. Many higher-level positions derive their perceived usefulness and prestige by the number of reports under them and the amount of busywork produced even if said busywork is counter-productive to the bottom-line.

A laser focus on deliverables would signify the death of middle-management and various "facilitator" positions who currently enjoy cushy jobs without contributing anything essential.
Looks amazing. Too bad they don't allow commercial use of the model (without a license agreement).
One life lesson I learned the hard way is that even if you're stuck in the most toxic workplace imaginable, never quit your job (unless you have an offer elsewhere).

Fight back. Make them fire you. Don't start smearing shit on the walls or watching porn during meetings, just do the job so poorly that keeping you there is an expensive headache.

I once worked for two scammers and generally try to be a good employee. Yet the workplace abuse became intolerable (wage skimming) and eventually I'd had enough, so I left without having anything else lined up.

Big mistake. The recession hit, it took me a year to find another position, and the entire time I was ineligible for unemployment because I voluntarily left. If I had just said fuck you, put my feet on my desk and printed copies of random documents found on network shares all day, I could have been freed up to find a better position on their dime.

Layoffs invite unemployment claims, which increases their insurance premiums. "Waaah, people aren't quitting" is a bunch of whining execs wanting to reduce headcount without the PR or financial consequence of continued layoffs.

Lest we continue to wonder what the real reason behind the mandatory RTO and other recent policies designed to make working intolerable or unfeasible.

Next up will be pointless bureaucracy, time-tracking, bean-counting and other inane traditionally-punitive measures employees will struggle to keep up with...the insanity of which makes people jump ship like rats fleeing the Titanic.
The other useful vision accessibility setting is "Color Filters" - I've used this one two different ways.

Currently, I've got it set to put a reddish-orange cast on the screen - like a "turbo night shift" more similar to the depth F.lux will let you take your mac. You can use the Shortcuts app to create a shortcut to enable the filter, and then set that to turn on at certain points, so around 10 at night my phone goes from normal night shift to a much more aggressive red/orange-shifted profile. The effect at night is dramatic - the phone becomes much less jarring to look at. The OLED screens are great for this, too - a reduction in blue color is a reduction in blue light. The shortcut turns itself back off at 6am.

The other filter you can apply is a black & white filter, which removes all color from the screen. Give this a try for an hour and then turn it off - you'll be amazed at the riot of attention-grabbing color app makers are throwing at you. I've found it's a lot easier not to get sucked into the phone hole when the UI is set to black & white - the whole device feels calmer and less urgent.

If you haven't spent time in the accessibility settings, though, go exploring. It's where Apple puts all the good stuff.
I love it that "goated" is now a word, no matter how narrow is the actual set of people worthy of the title.

I love watching speedruns - mostly Minecraft and Factorio, but any well-executed speedrun is fun to indulge.

100% speedruns are by themselves their own category of challenging, since in general while a normal speedrun mostly optimizes for the "happy path" (where the player knowing a very particular quirk or mechanic often doesn't give them a huge advantage), 100% runs tend to exercise a much broader skillset. E.g. in a 100% Minecraft run you'd need to know how to cheese fighting the Wither, or build some redstone contraptions (for "every potion effect" achievement), things you absolutely never ever do in any%.

So the fact this guy not only did a 100% but also took no damage, on top of other voluntary challenges, at the very least deserves a new entry in the common dictionary.
I worked at a Japanese restaurant in college and had to learn how to walk-run to give the impression of busy-ness in order to keep the manager happy. Later when I worked in Japan the OLs (office ladies) always did it too.
Yeah I was designing an internal lambda server so mostly parallelism, all I had to do was have a dynamic match and everything else was out the box for the load I needed
My first job in the valley I worked with a guy who had coded Cobol for the Air Force. He would write all his code and go over it for days executing it in his head not even a compile. He would then compile it. Fix the syntax errors - usually only a few and finally did some minimal debugging.

He did not have to work that way given that we had more modern tools. It was just his process from using punch cards.
https://lunar.fyi/ can do that (as well as control brigthness on external monitors)
I once thought squirrels were cute. Then I became a condo association president.

I removed squirrel carcasses from all rooftop A/C units, along with the harvested nutshells that they had left behind. I patched the holes they opened into the walls and crevices of the condo apartments.

Finally I helped remove the 40-year-old pecan tree adjacent to one building's slab and which had hosted these pests for decades. The tree was lifting the slab and likely would have broken the foundation.

I have resolved that buildings should never coexist with either large trees (nut-bearing or otherwise) or with rodents.

Two years ago some jackass planted two pecan trees in the condo front yard. This year the pecans are falling and the squirrels have already moved back. The homeowners' association is clueless. The cycle continues.
There are a lot of knock-on effects.

For instance, a lot of drivers prefer to swerve rather than brake ... because they're afraid of getting hit from behind, because everyone is tail-gating.
This reminds me of my time spent being completely addicted to VRchat at the peak of the pandemic. Most of my time was either spent sleeping or in virtual reality
The subject of this discussion is collaboration. You want to benefit from that collaboration without providing collaborators an equal opportunity. By instituting a CLA, you have disincentivized collaboration.

I understand you have determined this to be a good compromise for you and the developers you pay to work on Element. That doesn't make this situation any less bad to the rest of the community.

So that begs the question: will having a stronger source of revenue for your team be worth alienating 3rd-party contributions?

No matter the answer, I think its totally reasonable for those contributors to complain about the situation you have placed them in.
>No need for a sophisticated mathematical model

There is definitely a need for a model. Even more so if you start making wild claims about the weather.

>how is this going to survive a once in 25 or 50 years

You think the sun going out and the wind stops blowing for an entire month once every 25 years? That's quite a brave claim.

>And last winter was an unusualy warm winter.

I remember. Solar power was unusually productive last winter, heating requirements were a lot lower than usual. The wind didn't stop blowing for a month though.
> The CLA is an absolute atrocity, though. It is a bright line of perdition. No one should sign it.

Could you elaborate what's wrong with the CLA?
It's the Apache one which is a reputable open source organisation, I'd imagine it wouldn't be that bad.
That's just bias on your part.

You don't see the thousands of indie games that were never released because the creators screwed it up, or they ran out of money.

Or the indie studios who never made a second game because they didn't recoup their costs.

Indies that fail just fold and you never hear about them. AAA that fail release their games.
When I was young, I was categorized as "learning disabled". I wasn't allowed to take a second language in middle school or high school. I took "special" classes that were dumbed down for kids like me.

I had a lot of resentment and spite-- that's for sure. I was accepted to college, no doubt with the help of my special categorization. When I began my studies I made it a point to take the hardest second language I could (Japanese at the time) and study abroad in Japan. I also made it a point to get a master degree in engineering, and then built a million dollar company on my own.

So fuck them and their categories.
I have a little hobby project where I record an FM radio music station using a SDR and then remove all the non-music portions for offline listening. I like the music selections the DJs pick, but I prefer not to listen to the DJ commentary and the advertisements.

I evaluated three methods of recording: analog capture from a standalone FM receiver, using this nrsc5 library to record the "HD" radio stream, and using an AirSpy SDR with this library: https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion

Recording the "HD" (what a misnomer) radio was nice in that there was no hiss or multipath effects, but in comparison to the other methods the digital compression artifacts became impossible to un-hear. It seems to top out at about 96 kbps

The airspy-fmradion library has some nice stuff in it to address multipath, resulting in the best audio quality of the three methods I tested.

I use https://github.com/ina-foss/inaSpeechSegmenter to identify which segments of the recordings are speech vs. music.
Contracts are on case-by-case basis but generally no. On the other hand, that's why so many companies do not want to hire contractors even when the task is well-suited for such an arrangement. They want a butt in a chair financially dependent on them first, and the deliverable second (if at all).

Disclaimer: contractor so my response might be obviously biased.
I find the current title much more clear than requiring that people know what PET is.

And if you're familiar enough to know what plastic types exist, you probably also realize that this won't be a miracle protein that can tackle a ton of different chemicals with this one innovation/advancement.

Unless you're a chemical engineer, I can't think of a place where anyone would need to know what PET is. Bottle returns don't have different holes based on the recycling type, I can even throw glass and cans in with plastic bottles and it'll scan the label and sort it out. For me, I might have made a tentative guess that PET is used in bottles, and my dad inspects factories that produce that stuff and so it's not like I had no exposure to it (just no interest in the myriad of plastics we're trying to avoid)
> It's not voluntary unless/until you can find me a place where housing/land is free.

Prison.

> The end result is that you work or you die (out of exposure, medical bills, etc). Not much different from the slavery from the old days?

Sounds like your definition of slavery is nobody taking care of you.
A long time ago, I remember a MySQL talk where they explained dual-license as "if you make money, then we make money", while keeping the product FOSS.

I think it's a reasonable simplification.

And if the company changes the licence, then a A/GPL fork can survive (c.f. Hashicorp, which could have probably avoided their issues with a better licence from the start, but at the time no one expected to be eclipsed by big cloud providers with infinite resources).
I’ve done exactly this for years now. I’m not sure if it actually reduces “blue light” enough to prevent me from triggering my brain’s “it’s daytime” mode, but I figure it’s at least allowing my pupils to stay more dilated (better night vision)

Edit: I don’t make a habit of looking at my phone in bed. In addition to the “blue light” there are other things that contribute to wakefulness, such as any voluntary muscle movement (scrolling and tapping) and even just keeping your conscious brain active, which I find I do when I’m interacting with my phone.
Even better for bed time (and even stargazing) is the add a red mode. I have had my power button triple click toggle this for many years.

It can be hard to operate if you turn the blue leds off entirely but you don’t need much.

https://www.blockbluelight.com/blogs/news/how-to-turn-your-i....
For Mac, Lunar (brew install --cask lunar) gives "sub-zero dimming" that works perfectly -- it hooks into the brightness keys and gives a whole second, lower menu. The lowest setting is actually too dim (as any lowest non-zero brightness setting should be...) Works for external monitors, too!
I'm pretty sure slaves from any era would kill to have my job where I work from home, have various insurances and investments through my employer, make a lot of money that I can spend on whatever I want and more. When you abstract concepts enough, everything becomes similar but current employment in developed countries is nowhere near slavery.
"Ancient people where to stupid to imagine measurements in a fictional account, therefore the presence of measurements is evidence of the story being factional" is a quite arrogant take, don't you think?
The fundamental problem with valgrind is it only looks at what happened, not what could happen. Valgrind is great at making sure you don't have memory safety issues for "normal" inputs, but is basically useless at making sure your code doesn't have memory safety vulnerabilities when fed atypical inputs.
"Inauthentic" is the "yadda yadda" you're looking for :)
I love bikes and was going to comment about them so I'll just tack on to your comment.

Built a single speed out of a cheap, used frame with some spare or cheap parts and it has been going strong with little maintenance for 14 years.

Also have a long-tail cargo ebike that I got this summer and already have over 500 miles on it. It can be faster than driving a lot of times on top of being more fun for me and my kids.

And to top it off a full suspension mountain bike (2018 YT Jeffsy) which I get out on about twice a week and is really great for my physical/mental state, and has a huge skill ceiling so there will always be something to strive to get better at. Just got back from a weekend off riding an area with huge granite boulders and slabs with a few friends. Really fun to attempt features that made us a little uncomfortable and build skills/confidence.
Many US companies refuse to ship internationally, so there are legitimate reasons for reshipping services to exist, especially for niche products or products that are too expensive locally. I have used legitimate reshipping services a few times as a Canadian.

However, these services are real businesses with permits operating out of warehouses with actual staff - not a network of people recruited from Craigslist to operate out of their houses.
The funny thing is that they’re locally targeted, so if you go on vacation to a country with a low COL you’ll see those adverts on FB say “Make $200/month working from home!!!!”
Isn't it that way everywhere? "Boston Market" is based in Colorado and sells food everywhere but Boston. "Pittsburgh Tool" is made in China, etc.
Modern cubs are a circle jerk... They book artists that are hand picked from a small group of people that are affiliated with only certain music labels and business interests. This is why people like Paris Hilton and Shaq can suddenly headline shows across the world out of nowhere.

Night clubs now collude to make their own staff and those few select DJs money and fame, without introducing new and unaffiliated talent into the mix. They extort free labor out of unknown DJs and artists under the illusion that it is a big honor to play for free at a "prestigious" nightclub, while only the club is the one making profit, and clubs usually make a lot of profit at that.

Now they wonder why the model is failing after years of creating a deeply controlled circle of exclusivity. Money is funneled out of the music community to various other interests, and clubs rarely do anything to build communities that support and elevate their local music cultures. It's hard to feel sorry for a closed system like that failing. :/
It would be preferable if the government held the buyer responsible for paying sales taxes.

Moving everything to electronic payments should make this possible. Then it would be even possible to implement marginal sales taxes, so that you are progressively taxing consumption. Which would make it impossible to avoid taxes by being so wealthy that you can take a loan out to fund your lifestyle and hence not have to pay income taxes.
"Plato" absolutely does not say the story is true. "Plato" almost never spoke in his dialogues and you can't assume that anything that anyone says in one of his dialogues accords with his own beliefs, although frequently the closest speaker to Plato's beliefs is Socrates.

The story of Atlantis is told by Critias, who heard the story second hand.
I remember as an undergrad thinking it was crazy that a lot of congestion control is essentially left up to the client to play nice.
Conversely, here is an example of the concerns of older generations that just happened to strangely present itself in my Google News feed today.

https://www.villages-news.com/2023/11/05/do-not-buy-a-home-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Villages,_Florida

https://www.thevillages.com/
I had an uncle who'd built a KIM-1 clone (Elektor Junior[1]), with a kit from the Indian Elektor magazine. As a kid, he'd never let me touch it. I think it was one of the factors that got me into programming, a few years later.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektor_Junior_Computer
I think he definitely went off the rails with spending on himself, but he absolutely donated the way he said he was too. There were a lot of questions from charity founders who received funding wondering if they should give back, and there were much larger organisations where they probably had similar discussions but not in the open so I didn’t see them

Edit: for context this was a large aggregator for “effective charities” with other billionaires and if you sorted by max he was on top for the years I did data analysis
Older houses “breathe” aka leak air like sieves. Air pollution from a small source like a pilot light is quickly diluted by air exchange with the outdoors.
Letter in question

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
> The entire point of such a move at the time was first strike capability, which is entirely offensive in nature.

You know one of the reasons for Soviet missile deployment on Cuba was to counterbalance US missile deployment in Turkey, right? And that the resolution of Cuban missile crisis was basically "withdrawing US nukes from Turkey in exchange for withdrawing Soviet nukes from Cuba"?

Was the US missile deployment in Turkey "desire to destroy us [Soviets] without provocation", by your own words?
There was the somewhat recent issue in Seattle where a station included an image file with no file extension, and it bricked the radios in Mazdas: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/radio-station-snafu-in-...
The main problem with that is that there are no decent 5K monitors. The Apple Studio Display is literally the same price as the iMac (so a Studio Display + Mac Mini/Studio is ridiculously expensive). The 5K 27" LG UltraFine is not that much cheaper, and people are saying it has pretty terrible build quality (at least compared to an iMac). And those are pretty much the only 5K monitors.
There's no Reduce White Point on Mac as far as I am aware. However, you can use the fantastic Lunar [0] app to achieve this, as it supports "Sub-Zero Dimming".

To use it, I think you just need to start Lunar, and then press the Reduce Brightness button on your keyboard until it goes below the minimum Mac allows.

[0] https://lunar.fyi
Reddit was actively coordinating going after the wrong person which is an entirely different beast. Krebs is acting as an investigative journalist - he even gave them the opportunity to respond. Your local news stations don't send reporters out to try to talk to local scammers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZdwwpzvqHA
> it was a closely guarded Egyptian piece of knowledge, apparently.

Apparently no more closely guarded than they told it to some Greek guy who told it to a famous author who put it a book.

Apparently the Egyptians hadn’t learned the secret about secrets: If you want to keep something a secret, you shouldnt tell people about it.