skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily, executives have a habit of occasionally putting their blatantly illegal deals in writing (e.g. the recruiting cartel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...).

Beyond a certain size, it becomes hard to pretend you're doing it for one reason while actually doing it for another. Especially if it becomes a pattern.
I signed a contract with my employer that when I'm using the computer they give me to conduct their business on their behalf, they have the right to observe my usage of that computer.

The situation in this article is completely different.
My sincerest hope is that eating animals becomes less popular over the next hundred years such that killing them for medical needs becomes less acceptable.
What's frustrating is these are simple numerical questions. I feel like there must be an obvious solution which either one side or the other is intentionally
obfuscating to advance their agenda.

I tried a quick Google search, which tells me that about 25 years ago 19.5% of America's GDP was collected to offset that national debt. But Bush's tax cut (and a later one about 8 years ago) has lowered that to just 16.3%. That coincides with the steeper slope in the Statista graph.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax...
So just to be clear on what is being alleged, because the write-ups are omitting this detail: from what I can tell FB paid SC users to participate in “market research” and install the proxy.

The way most of the writeups make it sound is that it’s some sort of hack, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. (I’d love to get more detail on exactly what the participants were told they were getting paid for, but I’d be surprised if they did not know their actions were being monitored.)

The accusation that it’s wiretapping if one party in the communication channel is actively breaking the encryption (even with a tool provided by a third party) seems tenuous to me, but IANAL. If this is wiretapping, is it also wiretapping for me to use a local SSL proxy to decrypt and analyze traffic to a service’s API?
People should probably read their employment agreements and IT usage policy. I'd be surprised if it's not written somewhere.

Besides which, using someone else's computer with an expectation of privacy is the wrong expectation.
> early periods were far more "mathematical" than 20th and 21st century composers

We've got way more composers and variety today. But part of that variety is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_rock
There is a recurring pattern where companies fight any kind of worker representation and unionization as hard as they can, paint vivid doomsday scenarios why it's actually bad for workers - and create the impression that it is futile because the company will never "play along" and just sabotage forever or even close locations etc. And when the organizing succeeds, the company often actually accepts it and lives with it, trying to make the best out of it (rather than keeping on fighting a losing war) and it turns out to not be so horrible after all.

If you are ever involved in organizing - expect this pattern.
> This reminds me of a post I recall, that the lone genius is actually a symbol of society's sweeping failures and not of singular merit.

(from a comment above) Idk much about math or anything would love to make it to AGI that can tell me which opinion is correct when reading HN
Really bad nitpick, but: I cringe at FOO'S-type plurals. Just break out of the uppercase and say VHDXs if you find VHDXS too confusing.

https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing/seven-sin...
> If you saw something broken that's not your responsibility would you fix it?

If it were a genuine mistake and not fraudulent, yes.

> I know the answer in your case, but believe me that a lot of people would.

Weren’t you just talking about not assuming malice?
What do you mean? I looked up the RP2040 datasheet[0], and it looks like it can be used as a plain USB device, and can be booted from USB. If that's how it's connected on this SBC, I'd imagine software support would be quite good since Linux probably has a built-in USB driver for it.

[0] https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...
If you care so much, why don’t you call them?
> Yet, rich people buy Lamborghinis.

Do they really? Seems more like a case for wannabe rich people.
I recently saw a guy on Amtrak reading an old, maybe original edition hardback of The Power Broker and it was even bigger! Just way too big to be practical. By comparison the current paperback edition is almost portable.
Try interacting with them and you’ll know. If you just use it, (and your OS isn’t too old) then you wouldn’t feel it. And also good luck if they make some changes that affect you.

A better way to describe it might be contributor-hostile than user hostile. In a typical open source project, opening an issue is considered to be a contribution, a pull request is even better. Try doing any of these and be prepared to be harassed.

It is a very toxic open source project. Sadly homebrew cask is irreplaceable.
That’s not sufficient - you also need to intercept traffic somehow which they successfully accomplished by buying this vpn company and using them to proxy victims traffic through their infra
utterly absurd
The book "Inside Atari DOS" by Bill Wilkinson (author of Atari DOS) goes into some of the rationale:

https://www.atariarchives.org/iad/
one big advantage pi had over minipc is a lot of the minipcs are in the 30 watt range while the early pis were single digit watts. that advantage has decayed over time though...
> It is possible, sometimes, to prove that a company closed a store because of a union.

The "sometimes" is doing all the work there. Sure, if the company writes an email that says "we decided to close this store because the employees unionized and we're trying to deter that in other stores" then you could prove it, but then they could just... not do that, and close the store anyway.
Not in 2020, no.

HSTS causes your browser to pin the first cert that it sees (from sites opting in to this scheme), so nobody (even the legitimate operator) can swap it out before it expires.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Securi...

And specifically to the scenario in OP, app clients these days do not use the OS cert store, they will ship a single well-known server cert and only accept that one. This doesn’t help with your Firefox usecase though.
Victims that were being paid to participate?

Edit: Not excusing Facebook here, but feel like this whole thing is in a weird grey area. It is like getting paid to have a Nielsen box monitoring your TV and then complaining when you find out it also knew what you watched on your DVD player.
StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3
When Apple released the iPhone, several smartphones were in existence. But the iPhone created a much more cohesive and simplified experience compared to those. There's merit in that.
From the OP, Snapchat started pinning not long after this program launched.
Norton Sales [1] used to be a legendary source of surplus rocket and aviation parts, but these days they seem to mostly rent stuff out.

There is a story how Peter Beck bought there an LR101 vernier thruster from Atlas ICBM, and then smuggled it to New Zealand. Examining the engine showed him that "professional" stuff was not necessarily too much more complicated than what he could make at home. This was probably one of the factors which inspired him to start Rocket Lab, which he did after returning from the USA.

[1] https://nortonsalesinc.com/
Late stage unionization.
Maybe read up on recent union busting cases. Starbucks, Tesla, Walmart, Amazon... It's a lot more nuanced than that.

And note I'm replying to someone claiming it's impossible to charge companies with union busting at all.
It would be interesting to see a blogpost on parameterizing a model in PyBaMM given a commercial cell. I imagine many battery engineers using simulation-based design tread over the same ground for determining parameters from literature, X-rays, etc.
His actual talk is about something else. I hesitate to defend the clown, but if the Left degenerates to this sort of misrepresentation, where is the difference between the Left and the Right?

Trump was urging the Christian Right to vote. He felt that they did not want to vote. He told them if they vote just this once, the Right won't need their vote in 4 years because he will have fixed the aspects of our society that offend the Right. He wasn't saying there will not be an election, just that if they vote this once, they can go back to not voting because their vote won't be needed.
No link to the study, so here it is.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

Some immediate things that jump out at me:

* Large rise/drop in those not wanting vs wanting kids since 2018 for the under-50 crowd (10% and 11%, respectively)

* 57% of the under-50 just don't want kids. The second is much the same ("focus on other things" 44%). You have to get to the third and fourth reason before external factors come in ("Concerns about the world" 38%, "Can't Afford" 36%) and "concerns about the environment" comes in a distant 5th at 26%

* Both under-50 and over-50 who don't/didn't have kids have very positive feelings about it, until it comes to interacting with friends with kids. A full third of respondents report positive job and career outcomes without kids.

* A whopping 2/3rds of over-50 have nieces and nephews, which fill the gap for kids.

* "About a third of older adults without kids say they, rather than a sibling, would provide more care for their parents."

* "78% of single adults under 50 who say they're unlikely to have kids report that this hasn't impacted their dating life."
> In fact, the company would probably close an underperforming store sooner if there was a unionization drive and would have plenty of time to do so before certification.

Presumably closing the store in response to an attempt at unionization would be the same thing?
BTW the best way to make standards happen is to sell a product based on the standard. Academic standards don't go anywhere.
While not disagreeing with anything you’ve said (music theory is one part acoustic physics to several parts history and sociology), the specific primacy of Schenkerian analysis is a particularly American trait.

It’s also, interestingly, illustrative of your argument. Musical analysis is necessarily socially contextual and therefore revealing of the author’s values and priorities, and Schenkerian arguments often imply, or directly come with, some really quite right-wing positions. Schenker was very much into motivated reasoning to defend his deep-rooted racism; many Schenkerian analysts have, deliberately or otherwise, wound up following in those footsteps.
I fail to see your point. To me, these three are all very close to each other in "simplicity" and any ordering seems arguable. If anything, isn't Perl simpler than Python and if not, why?

Perhaps vast differences in ergonomics and language-culture-fit but that's orthogonal/unrelated?
Node-fluent-FFmpeg: A fluent API to FFmpeg
I'm a business owner. I am "pro-union."
This bacon lover has seen how pigs are treated in industrial facilities and has lost all appetite. I rarely buy it, from a local place whose pigs are slaughtered not by low wage people in a dark slaughterhouse that must meet quotas and have very disturbing ideas of fun.
Well, there's plenty of N100 mini PCs around, but Ryzen Embedded ones (which is I assume what you mean by low power Ryzen) are a bit more scarce.
I'd say this is a "porque no los dos" moment. You're the second person I have heard of who made the choice to be come the primary carer for a parent like this and I applaud you for it: I have no doubt it sometimes caused stress, but it's by far the nicest of the least-bad choices if you both can handle it. The other guy it meant putting some life/career goals on-hold but I am very proud he went ahead with it. A very selfless thing to decide.

Showed the best in people I think. As this does for you. Well done!
Nice.
Consider adding fallback services to api.ipify.org, such as ifconfig.me or icanhazip.com
Unfortunately this is unsurprising; with bad actors like Meta there are likely many potential "dark patterns" put in place.

I can imagine e.g. security risks involving sensor data exfiltration where accelerometers and gyroscopes etc are monitored to infer audio information. By covertly relaying and processing the collected data externally it would be possible to reconstruct sensitive information without direct access to the device's microphone.

It's not unlikely that they pull off something like that.

Meta and other pernicious companies and government bodies are probably employing many more, even worse and much simpler eavesdropping techniques in the wild.
The main advantage of the Alder Lake N CPUs, like N100, N97 etc. is that they are very cheap, cheaper than the Arm CPUs of comparable speed, so they have made the latter not competitive in most cases, because they are both slower and more expensive and only their somewhat lower idle power consumption can make them preferable in certain cases (a properly configured Alder Lake N computer should have an idle power under 5 W, but going much lower than that is unlikely).

A few months ago Intel has launched a refresh of Alder Lake N, with the code name Amston Lake, which are branded as belonging to the Atom x7000 series and Radxa said that there will be future variants of Radxa X4 that will use Amston Lake.

An alternative to Radxa X4 for the cases when its minimum size and its minimum price are not essential is Odroid H4 ($100 without memory) or Odroid H4+ ($140 without memory). That has the Nano-ITX size (5" by 5") and a big heatsink that can work even passively, fanless.

The Alder Lake N/Amston Lake CPUs have the advantage of peripherals with higher speed than any competing Arm CPUs.

Radxa X4 has 3 independent 10 Gb/s USB ports plus 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet plus 32 Gb/s M.2 PCIe socket. The best competing Arm-based computers, with RK3588 or with MediaTek Genio 1200 have at most 3 independent 5 Gb/s USB ports. All the Arm-based boards that appear to have many USB ports incorporate an USB hub, so those ports are not independent and their aggregate throughput is limited to 5 Gb/s.

Another great advantage is that the Intel GPU is not only much faster than the Arm GPUs, but it has public documentation and it has much better software support.
How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (2015)
Interesting. It is worth noting that the presence of Germanic tribes in Spain goes back much farther in time. and The name Al Andulus for instance comes from the Arabic name for the Vandals: a Germanic tribe who settled in Iberia.
Genuinely glad we're slowly approaching Syndicate-level body mods, this can't come soon enough.
> The originate _inside_ because NAT effectively blocks all _external_ requests.

You mean the firewall effectively blocks all external requests.
Maybe I'm too young, but is it really that bad?

Statistically speaking, would you hire a person that's good at leet code, or one that isn't?

Probably it's not directly related to what you will do at the position, but if it takes you 1 week to prepare for an interview and you can't do that, I believe that speaks a lot regarding someone's qualifications.
Fyi, there is already a widely used tool along with a company called semgrep, which stems from semantic grep: https://semgrep.dev/.
> seriously, how does this not violate wire tapping laws? does agreeing to ToS mean you also agree to being spied on in a way that protects them?

It’s not really spelled out clearly in the article, but this was a specific program where people had to choose to opt-in in exchange for compensation.

This wasn’t simply Facebook hijacking random people’s traffic because they accepted the ToS or used the Facebook app

Not defending the program, but it’s not what a lot of comments are assuming.
That sounds a lot like Headscale.
My father in law ran a decent electrians business and the employees unionized and the costs destroyed his business. He ended up returning to be a tradesman despite being in his 50s as he took debt to keep it afloat and the employees now work non-unionized at the only other electrician business in town with a worse boss (according to friends I know in town disconnected from the drama). That's usually the most common disaster.
How does it differ from pug (jade), which has existed for about 14 years?
Is this a VST?
Lack of curiosity is strong with this one.
A tiny fraction of the pizza I eat has meat on it.
> It is also very common for grandparents to help with childcare almost every day, since the country is small and people usually live within a short distance of their parents

Yes this may be a big factor. For us our parents are in no condition to offer substantial help (I actually have to support my aging parents) and after having one child I am quite reluctant to have another one; its not just the financial burden, there is also so much energy, patience and attention I can muster every day. I prefer to be a good parent for one kid than a mediocre parent for 2. Having a big support system from extended family might have made the difference in my case.
It’s honestly not.

Drones are a very common part of soccer - they are a way for staff to see what is happening from above. They’re only an issue when you use them to spy on your opponents.
Like Sting said, “it's not a chord until the bass player decides what the root is.”
Gets killed by IPv6 firewalls.
It's not nice for their users.
For those interested in energy profiling tools that have applications for developing battery powered hardware products I can highly recommend Nordic Semiconductor’s PPK II. For a reasonable price you get a hardware tool and software kit that can profile your actual energy usage quite well. It has punched well above its weight on providing power profiles against tools an order of magnitude higher in price. If you are designing a hardware product that runs on battery a tool like this is a necessity.

I know above sounds like an advertisement but it isn’t. I’m not affiliated with NS at all. It’s just a great tool and I’m happy to recommend it as there are very few cost effective options in this space.
Agreed. And one could argue that Unix wasn't really popular because of the "philosophy", but because it would get out of the way and let you run big monolithic applications like OracleDB or CAD software or even Emacs and etc. So no popular application using "Plan 9 philosophy" ever emerged.
How is that appropriate? They didn’t say a thing about their age.
More just this:

mke2fs -t ext4 -b 1024 -N 100000 -O ^has_journal,^uninit_bg,^ext_attr,^huge_file,^64bit [/dev/sdx]

(smaller block size, 100,000 inode file table entries (tuned to the number of blobs), no journal, no checksumming, no extended file attributes, use smaller integer file offset IDs, 32 bit padded vs 64 bit)

Then mount it and run the same test.

You could go even further and tune fopen BUFSIZE to be no greater than 12,000 bytes. You can even create this mount on a file inside your existing mount... which is essentially akin to having an sqlite file without needing a client library to read/write to it.

Anyway - if the purpose is to speed up reads and save disk space on small blob files, there is little need to ditch the file system and it's many many upsides.
Reading this article I'm just thinking that Facebook has wing that's just an NSA front at this point.
Of course this was my first hiring, so I had some learning to do including understanding org politics and let's say I wasted a month in that. And 4 months was not all interviews, it was the end to end process from the time I was given the position till the time the offer was sent out. Pretty sure I will be able to do it faster next time around, all other things including job markets being same.

And there were no diversity quotas, just that management will keep asking are you being diverse and my manager will throw a fit every time his managers will ask this question since our org was pretty much uniracial, but it was not me who built it :)
Yes, I think so - original project is at:

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

... and I had not made that connection before ...
Yes, the SCUMM Bar restocks with mugs if you destroy yours.

It's still a bizarrely high-pressure moment built into a game that otherwise has no such mechanics. I always hated coming to it.

It would have been at least as easy to tie the disintegration of the mugs to scene transitions, which would have eliminated the time pressure at no cost to the game.
given how much C++ underpins the video game industry, I don't think "enterprisey architecture astronaut" is entirely fair to video game programmers
When HSTS is enabled, browsers don't pin the specific cert, just that HTTPS is required. Pinning the cert would mean users would experience outages (because you can't swap the cert early), which would be a terrible experience.
Python started out decades ago as a language for beginners or non-professional programmers, but is the current language simple or minimalistic?
"Cara de Caca" card game
Anyone Try 10Web?
> from what I can tell FB paid SC users to participate in “market research” and install the proxy.

The app was available on both the Google Play and Apple App stores for anyone to download.

> The way most of the writeups make it sound is that it’s some sort of hack, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.

It could be that you are confused with a previous case. From the blog post:

> The wiretapping claim is new and perhaps not to be confused with the prior controversy and litigation: In 2023, two subsidiaries of Facebook was ordered to pay a total of $20M by the Australian Federal Court for "engaging in conduct liable to mislead in breach of the Australian Consumer Law", according to the ACCC ... Facebook had shutdown Onavo in 2019 after an investigation revealed they had been paying teenagers to use the app to track them. Also that year, Apple went as far as to revoke Facebook's developer program certificates, sending a clear message.

> If this is wiretapping, is it also wiretapping for me to use a local SSL proxy to decrypt and analyze traffic to a service’s API

If by "local" on your own network/machine with your own traffic then obviously no.
I'm assuming they were doing it for the federal government at this point. There's no reason for them to spy on another app, they can hire almost any developer they want.
Rus is what these people called themselves. They were folks lured to that part of the Mediterranean by promise of work in the Byzantine military as Varangian Guards.

A subset of these Norsemen sailed up the Dniper to what is today Kiev and setup Kievan Rus. They ruled over and assimilated the the Slavic, Bulgar, and Turkic peoples of the area. In the Middle Ages, the Mongols came and destroyed Kiev, murdering just about everyone inside, leading to fragmentation into multiple polities like Moscow, the Novgorod Republic, and Vladimir.

The Rus ethnonym lives on in the name of the Russians, Rusyns, Ruthenians, Belarussians, and others!
A good number of the mini PC's idle under 12W. My i5-6500t does. Yeah they ramp up under load to 30W, but a before rpi5 to start to ramp up like that would've been way more compute than an RPi could offer.

Also notably there are some low power options too. My first kube cluster was on these nice 2014 Acer Chromebox cxi's; they idled at 6w! Crazy slow 2957u Celeron processor, but I used it a node as my desktop for ~2 years (with 16GB ram). But it had gobs of USB bandwidth, mpcie wifi, sata, gigabit, and if i'd sprung for i3 models it probably would have been downright pleasant to use versus the 1.6GHz no turbo dual core I was getting.

Personally I've avoided the atom cores generally, but there's been a variety of decent low power offerings of big cores for a while. Heck, my Ultrabook tablet is ~6W when running, with screen on, with a i5-7200u. 15W TDP core with some additional TDP up available.

Point is, there's been a range of pretty low power x86 offerings. Just, not always super obvious.