skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The already existing push to force everyone to log onto their local computer with an online Microsoft account (instead of a traditional local account), along side telemetry users cannot completely turn off already showed the company moving in a privacy hostile direction.

This move seems a lot like using machine local AI to feed additional user interest data into everyone's online profiles for Microsoft's growing ad business.

I'm also willing to bet that enterprise would value an additional way to track employees.
It does not. The amount Amazon pays in taxes is independent of the proportion of their warehouse workers eligible for food stamps. This is entirely consistent with amount they pay in taxes also being independent of the amount of their taxes that go to fund the food stamp program in particular.
It's been since 3G that I delved into baseband specs in any depth, but I would not trust a powered up phone not to be commanded to connect to a network.
It's not illegal, it's just that it doesn't allow it in the UI. Who do you call to have that service disabled? No one knows. The best you can do is talk to someone and have the auto renewal turned off. That doesn't turn off the existing service until the renewal period hits though.
If you want the government to "take care of it citizens", what we actually need is a floor on income (eg. welfare/UBI), not a floor on wages (ie. minimum wage). Minimum wage does nothing for people who are unemployed, of which it's inevitably going to exacerbate.
You don't need a permit to buy a gun, depending on the state, but you do need to pass a background check, show an ID, and if you wish to carry it outside your house, you probably need a permit, again depending on the state and whether you wish to conceal or open carry.
> I was amazed when an ex told me she was on food stamps as a part of the financial aid package for the Oregon university

It's Oregon. In southern states, SNAP commonly isn't available to individuals/couples with zero income - and to many families with minor children.

This is irrespective of federal guidelines and sometimes counter what states themselves advertise. I was just saw a FL state site parroting federal guidelines as if they reflected reality for FL residents. They don't.

Why the disconnect between advertised and reality? I don't know.

Individual Floridians and couples (18?)21-63 with zero income and no other overriding factors (eg:SS Disability) are denied. I've seen a few exceptions.

Families with minor children are commonly denied or receive a few tens of dollars. For each needy family I knew received SNAP, I knew many more who didn't.

This is based on (20+yrs) my personal experience, interactions with the local homeless community, church based social work, discussions with other parents and years of feedback from a DCF case-worker friend.

I had 5 kids. They ate at school. Home was often white rice and nothing else. Sometimes there wasn't rice. My wife was disabled (per SS) but that didn't help in our case.

My relatives in VA tell the same story. Income is low, hunger isn't rare and SNAP is impossible to negligible.
>At the level of automation we've reached in society, low-skilled labor is worth, per hour, a very small amount.

It's not just automation that made low-skill labor worth shit, it's also the next to zero import tariffs on cheap textile and e-waste from overseas.

We traded the cost of our labor for cheap mass produced junk.

Put tariffs on imports proportional to the lack of environmental and human rights regulations the source country has or doesn't have, and boom, problem solved.
I am wondering why not take an existing language like python, and compile that to bash?

Also for this to be really unique and good it needs insanity like being able to avoid all external dependencies, or else idempotently installing them in ways that can not affect anything else externally, or even temporarily, in multiple crazy various environments including nix? my mind never shuts up
Sure. As long as the software continues to work despite whatever you broke or disabled. It all depends on how forgiving the software is and how integrated the hardware is.

If manufacturers really want to collect this data, they currently have the power to stop you.
You definitely will, because this is the approach that is also being taken by runtimes like Dart, Kotlin among others.
It's also what FOSS projects do
>Bluesky it’s a major point, but not the entire point.

And I'd say that was the right tradeoff to make. Mastodon is only marginally more useful than IRC at this point, and is completely useless to the average person. I as a developer have yet to even figure out how it's supposed to work. And no, I'm not going to spend hours digging through docs.
Bingo! It's all about harmonics' nodes. For a visualization, Cycfi Research has a great series on how pickup position affects tones. He also sells a "modeling pickup" based on this theory.

https://www.cycfi.com/2014/07/virtual-pickup-placement-part-...
well sure, the data is very precise. It's augmented with GPS.

I can also go get an inkjet printer to produce paper that has your tag number on it, slap it over my license plate and get all the ALPR systems to immediately flag my vehicle as your location.

Probably a crime, but also going to quickly poison the entire dataset
A C++ code design note:

The initial example in the article is anti-idiomatic, because it imbues the larger class with a RAIIness which can be limited to just one element of it:

struct ObjectType {
int a;
double b;
void* c;

ObjectType() : a(1), b(2.2), c(malloc(30)) { }
~ObjectType() { free(c); }
};

It's only the c member that really requires any special attention. In this particular case. So, there should be something like a `class void_buffer` which is a RAII class, and then:

struct ObjectType {
int a;
double b;
void_buffer c;

ObjectType() : a(1), b(2.2), c(30) { }
};

and actually, let's just not sully the set of constructors, but rather have:

struct ObjectType {
int a;
double b;
void_buffer c;

static ObjectType make() {
return ObjectType{ 1, 2.2, 30 };
}

};

and now instead of a complicated bespoke class we have the simplest of structs; the only complexity is in void_buffer.
I pretty much haven't heard of Bluesky since it went public. Is it still a mostly cesspool of american politics-obsessed twitter refugees?
> Completely clamping down on independent photo/videography is very difficult, even in a place like Gaza.

Only if you follow western sensibilities. If you have gunmen roaming the streets with machine guns, allowed to shoot anyone of the "normal" people, and they constantly ask for inspecting people's phones ... then it's not very difficult. They regularly fire into crowds, for all sorts of reasons.

Especially if about 20% of the population is part of that force roaming the streets with machine guns. There's 3 possible jobs you can have in Gaza: construction worker in Israel, Hamas or independent (baker, plumber, ...)

Hamas keeps far tighter control of their population than the USSR ever did.
> Waymo declined to tell me whether—or how often—remote operators intervened during my ride

Or just the entire ride.

Declining to provide the information on how much humans were driving to a journalist writing an article about the experience just makes it look like Waymo decided that there would be zero errors.

Meanwhile, Tesla just said go for it, and then the author wrote a review disparaging Tesla, who gave "full" access without human help. Instead of Waymo, who declined to say whether humans drove the car.

Waymo could offer a Mechanical Turk to play chess with and this author wouldn't even blink.

This is an information-free article with a click-bait title.
Do the math instead of just seeing red at large numbers. Jassy earns about 29.2 M$. Lets round it to 30M$ for the sake of convenience and assume all 17 of the board members get paid the same. Amazon has about ~1.5M employees. Which means that if the entirety of their earnings were redistributed they would get a whopping ~$340 per person. An insult for a yearly bonus and certainly not enough to get people off of food stamps.
> The law should either be changed or always enforced,

I understand

But if nobody breaks bad laws they will never change

Vice laws are a case in point
People like to mention the lower income taxes for higher income brackets in the USA but in some places there you pay a lot of property tax. If you make a nice salary you probably have a nice house, and in some places you'll pay a lot of property tax, especially if you live in a location that is popular like Miami.
https://www.tax-rates.org/florida/miami-dade_county_property...

https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state
I love how they cut this verse out in the presidential inaugeration.
If you knew someone working at an Amazon Warehouse position who needed to use government benefits to get by, would you consider them "well" or even "fairly" paid?
I don't understand why people have such a big privacy issue with this. It all happens on your device.

I understand being concerned about Microsoft using it to target ads or moving it off device in the future But the four scenarios laid out in the article don't seem like a problem.

> You're using a public computer

> You're using a work computer

> You're using a shared family computer without a password protected profile

> Your computer gets stolen

You shouldn't expect privacy on public or work computers. For all you know, they could already be doing this.

Ditto for a PC where you share an account with other people.

And if your laptop is stolen and they have your passwords, you're fucked anyways.
Bullshit (what the cops told you, to be clear, not what you're saying. I'm sure they did tell you they don't have a way to track it).

The cops could absolutely track it. License plate readers are built into most cop cars and parking enforcement vehicles, they could call the carmaker, they could view cctv from the area, whatever. If it was something they actually cared about - like one of their cars, or a cop killer, or their promotion was riding on it - they'd track it down. It's just not worth the time for them to do it, probably because there's too many car thefts and not enough time given to them to look into them.
It's inside a complicated box that you can't reach.
You'd probably like the original Mad Max (not Road Warrior) a lot more. I do fwiw.
Processing and sending are two separate unrelated things. You can process entirely on device and still send the base data or results. Both things can be true at the same time.
Just another data broker selling it
Reminds me of this Robin Williams movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/
Browsers don't have any built-in support for WASI. It's up to the web page to define those as exports for WASI-expecting WASM modules to import.
in Cryptonomicon, Randy evades constant remote monitoring of his laptop screen by doing this, but even more so.
They're pleasurable when you're the only author. They become a minefield unless every contributor is diligent, which happens very often.
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This is more accurate. Police do not exist in the US to help you recover lost property
The parenthesis highlight in any decent editor. So it always very obvious which operators apply to the operands.
From the actual article:

> A third of survey respondents reported using government-funded programs – primarily food stamps or Medicaid – in the last three months.

It's very hard to gauge what the real numbers are from that quote. It's also hard to gauge if Amazon made these people better or worse off. But again, from the actual article:

> Amazon’s median US employee was paid $45,613 in 2023, up from $41,762 the year before, the company said in a filing last month. The company says employees in warehousing and transportation are paid more than $20.50 an hour, on average. The survey, which was conducted between April and August 2023, excluded managers and skews a bit lower: Most respondents reported wages from $16 to $20 an hour.

> Some 65% of workers who come to Amazon earn more than they were making at their previous employer, the survey shows.

https://archive.is/J1MFq#selection-1767.0-1771.116
WebSim
I'll avoid the low hanging fruit but: if the government needs to supply aid to working citizens, they aren't getting much or any tax on a non-trivial portion of the population. I don't see how the government benefits from this transaction, and why they wouldn't at least (on the state level) increase minimum wage to offset this.
Hi Sam, what are you using to make the animations?
I’m a fan of Zig, but I just want to point out that creating dedicated allocators for managing specific regions/chunks of memory or memory within specific application scopes (i.e., arenas) is just another memory allocation strategy rather than the ultimate solution to memory management issues. It comes with its own trade-offs and depends entirely on your use case. Also, it’s great that Zig has this battery included in its standard library, but arenas aren’t unique to Zig nor are they difficult to implement in any language that allows manual memory management. I’m just pointing this out because I keep seeing folks highlight this as a key feature of Zig over C.
Not a lot of content, here.
I had used Palm Tungsten T before Revo, so I was quite used to the idea of backing the thing up daily over serial cable. And there was some linux package that among other things exposed the Revo's filesystem as an NFS server (it was slightly before FUSE), which was kind of a neat way of transfering files back and forth.
Last year I bought a 2015 Fiat 500 for basically 2015 list price. Couldn't afford anything newer, wanted a small car that gets good gas mileage and it's in excellent shape so not complaining.
Can you add it to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news , too? That's usually where I point users to when they ask about mobile apps or dark mode or extra features (filtering, offline). HN website should start listing apps on a help page.
There needs to be a central repository of instructions to do this for different models of car

Is there one?
I view that as something that's really for people who can't take care of their basic nutritional needs. That's not normal in a civilised society. After all, food is cheap.

We subsidise and socialise healthcare because the cost between people can vary extremely (it can cost between nothing and millions per year!) and it's a basic need. Food is not like that, basic food needs cost roughly the same for everyone. Of course there's $1000 a plate restaurants but those are not a basic need, you can get just as much nutrition for $5.

Someone who has a job should be able to cover food and housing. Otherwise society is severely broken.
> Their schooling is vastly different from the "Sit still, do what you're told" model that was used to train the an upcoming generation of factory workers.

Not op, but this is an area I know a bit about.

1. You’re right that instruction methods have evolved over time to be less teacher-centered. This might be considered an improvement. That said, good teachers who implement these methods well are mostly in good school districts (no surprise).

2. The issue comes more in secondary ed, imho. The issue is with the curriculum. In 1900, only about 4% of HS-aged kids went to HS. These folks were the elite, and the HS education was preparing them for a 2-year or 4-year program after HS (again, mainly for elites). The curriculum that existed then is largely the same one we have today, and it’s completely absurd. We get odds things like lower level math (non-calculus track) basically being re-heated middle school math. We get four required years of “English” that focuses on grammar (often taught in a dubious, prescriptive manner) and literature largely written by dead people (when there is plenty of good modern lit and poetry to learn about/through). We have science education that largely does not train students to engage scientific thinking (again, except maybe for the honors classes at good schools). To summarize, we have a curriculum designed for college-bound elites that has been ungracefully shoe-horned into a one-size-fits-all train wreck.

All of the curricular issues are solvable, but it there will need to be a critical mass of support in local communities to be able to implement change through the inertia of the existing system of education administrators and (to some extent) teachers.

Until this happens, imho it’s best to look at secondary ed as very expensive child care for the vast majority of students, with the exception being in better school districts (usually where the elites or elite-ambitious live).

Primary ed is ok… the main learning outcomes that folks need are the three Rs. Some folks, especially on HN, seem to think scientific thinking should be included. They’re not wrong, but that only flies in schools/communities of elites.
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I can see why WFH is attractive for established professionals who have families. But for Juniors who don't have families it can be depressing to stay all day at home alone. It can't be good to miss out on informal conversations with senior developers where you can learn a lot. It's also much easier to build connections in person. If you don't work in close proximity it's harder to connect with people you don't directly work with, even if they are technically on your team.

I think hybrid model is the best option personally.
I just don't understand how you can look at the current state of AI and the rate of progress and think "this is just like the expert systems hype". "Just a pile of linear algebra", "just curve fitting", "just a stochastic parrot". I've never liked these kinds of arguments which is essentially reasoning through analogy instead of through first principles.
If we are examining the equivalence between Putin and Hitler, and saying (aided by the passage of time so we can actually think calmly) - pressuring Germany was what allowed Hitler to come to power, is it not then true that this period where Russia was wounded and had all the turmoil is what allowed Putin to come to power?

Second question: who did the wounding? Who do you think the average Russian thinks did the wounding?
On late model Toyotas, pulling the fuse for the DCM (Data Communication Module - component that sends nonconsensual telemetry back to Toyota) also disables the car's bluetooth microphone and front right speaker.

There is a procedure to disable the DCM and restore at least the speaker, but it involves partial disassembly of the dashboard.
> Many features are multilingual (responding to the same concept across languages) and multimodal (responding to the same concept in both text and images), as well as encompassing both abstract and concrete instantiations of the same idea (such as code with security vulnerabilities, and abstract discussion of security vulnerabilities).

This seems like it's trivially true; if you find two different features for a concept in two different languages, just combine them and now you have a "multilingual feature".

Or are all of these features the same "size"? They might be and I might've missed it.
If someone with a penchant for committing grand theft were left unsupervised in my car for any amount of time, I too would vastly prefer for it to be totaled at that point.

Fortunately my car has a manual transmission, so chances are any idiot kid who tries to hop in my car and steal it will give up a few seconds after they realize that they have no idea how to operate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtYLNFBeCr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S9putayloM
How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings never made
The fact that it ensures to not take a snapshot of DRM content but also explains that it doesn't hide PASSWORDS in snapshots is INSANE to me!

God forbid it takes a screenshot of Bridgerton but my bank account password, that's fair game!
Makes me wonder how this case remains unsolved. (Or if solved, unreported.)

https://cwbchicago.com/2024/05/bucktown-hit-and-run-bentley-...
The data is still being recorded and saved. For example, it could make my security weaker by recording a password briefly displayed on screen. Now there's a second copy stored elsewhere on my computer than the password manager.

Also, that only mentions the snapshots (the images) themselves. It feels like its leaving them an out for data pulled from the pictures or summaries of locally processed data.
Show HN: I learned Pixel Art to build a game for my wedding's "Save the Date"
I learned Pixel Art design on Coursera and built a pixel art game for my wedding's save the date using React.

The game is on "endless runner" style and our guests have to jump over the typical animals of the island of Florianopolis (where the wedding took place) and gather the two rings in order to find out the wedding date.

Play it and try to "Save the Date".
Another one with problems reading the full length of my comment.

That comma really breaks English parsing in certain individuals.
I respect Jean-Heyd very much, but I'm unconvinced by this article.
First, the whole name mangling discussion is completely irrelevant to the issue and can be omitted. Second, one could tack on both copy and move constructors on to C in order to solve the double-free issue, in much the same way regular ctors are tacked on in the email proposal. In fact, I would argue that it is _necessary_ because A in RAII stands for Acquisition not Allocation. "Acquisition" implies ownership, which can be transferred or shared, so your copies and moves _have_ to have a special meaning to them. The fact that the proposal is bad or incomplete does not mean that it is "impossible" to have RAII in C. I don't claim that it _is_, but reading this did not reveal to me anything fundamental that would preclude RAII, only that all the preceding RAII proposals have been sloppy.
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From my point of view, the government already has most of my most personal stuff due to my time to CPS and what my parents told them (and possibly made up).

Anyway I've handwritten it, I guess the rest is up to their security lol.

But yeah, that's terrifying if people that know me would have it; information is power after all.
It's not only a privacy headache but will most likely impact performance as well. Especially on a low powered ARM device, I can imagine the user experience being pretty terrible. Strange that Microsoft is getting into hardware again, you'd think they'd have learned their lesson by now. Every tech company I've worked for that pivoted into hardware went bankrupt shortly after. It's not trivial navigating manufacturing and real engineering processes.