skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it's an 802.11 monitor mode packet sniffer, recording probe requests (which have a MAC address associated with them). Connecting to the internet is probably just to hook up to their cloud service.

Defeatable by airplane mode/wifi off/phone off, sure.
AFAIK specifying a language only makes a difference for syntax highlighting. I have never seen a markdown processor that would add prompts to the code based on the specified language.
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SQL tends to be very dense (more thinking than typing).

It is tedious to specify all that information (access, constraints, foreign key, cascading, views), but it’s all essential information you would end up specifying in another way.
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> humans hard wired for status within their social group.

Not always "status". Humans benefit from cooperative behaviour but may have many reasons for joining and adhering or leaving.

Having varied interests means different networks. The important point is to see meaning and value. This is where ostracism and rejection can be most painful.
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So if I'm pissed at the neighboring AirBnB I just need to broadcast a lot of Wi-Fi network discovery queries (With different MACs of course)?
> calls his coworkers NPCs.

Seriously, that's kind of a "fuck you" moment to all the people who helped him earn those millions isn't it?

Between this and hanging around with the head-cases at DOGE, I think the first thing he should spend his money on is a shrink.
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I think people largely forget that this happens to Republican issues as well and they have just as little recourse. It's just you probably consider them victories and either ignore or bask the Republicans loudly complaining and then doing nothing.

I think the reason that The Democratic Party feels ineffectual is because they've been on the defensive for so long they've lost their aspirational platform in favor of "stopping Republicans from doing bad things." They're the opposition party now.
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I used to have an online bookshop, mainly for fun and as a side income.

It takes a lot of time and it's very hard if you have a full time job.
I too am surprised by the number of ads these firms put out. Reddit, YouTube, even advent of code. I can't imagine in a world where even underpaid entry level roles at small startups get hundreds of applicants that these firms have a shortage of candidates.

What I think happens behind the scenes is similar to elite universities: there's a strong desire to maintain a high rejection rate. It's probably a KPI of the HR team to get a high number of applicants, so their HR team goes to the bottom of the ocean and the top of mountains to paste job ads. It is however not at all a sign that they need people.
Facebook works because of network effects of people you know in real life

For the vast majority of people, leaving is not an option, and no, the "you always have a choice" line is simply not correct
>That seems worse to me than just listening the conversations.

And that's the one that's actually happening. Listening to your conversations isn't technically possible and is easy to disprove.
I never read any of the comments here as belittling what it is to be poor.

It reads to me as being critical of the assumption that being rich makes you happy.

This is reflected by many people who became rich and self destructive.
This is REALLY good.
> the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

I’m trying to do my bit for the web at https://lmno.lol

Started a blogging service that doesn’t do things like the big players.
Don't fall into the trap of applying human psychology to LLMs. Bag-of-chemistry quirks do not translate to matrix-multiplication quirks.
Imagine an app that would alert you if a bunch of your friends turned off their phones at a location. Airbnb Party!
> Tampering of content has nothing to do with your privacy; it's a security matter. A nefarious man-in-the-middle could insert content which attacks your browser or redirects it to a malicious site, etc.

Curious, why that doesn't happen when I access https://verybadguy.tld/this_page_absolutely_doesnt_have_harm... for the first time? Isn't it the browser's job to handle harmful content?
I don’t think this is a win. Cautioning against adding new technology to learn and maintain is one thing. But not using an effective solution in your toolset because it’s too hard is absurd.

Our Industry pretends solutions must be immediately understandable with common sense, without study or explanation. But nothing that actually matters does this (relational databases in the first place).

No other engineering discipline has this confusion. The world has complexity and it’s our job to understand it.
To access the others, you need to have good money/salary/financial success, oftentimes.

Heck even for good therapy, you need to have those.
What I recall reading was various deep audits following the Hindenburg report disagreeing with their findings. Is it possible those auditors are wrong? Maybe. But I would imagine they spent extra effort given the public scrutiny over all this.
Partially mind reading, but mostly mind control. You didn't think of the Previa out of nowhere. They led you to that thought.

For more consumption.
My personal theory (which is also baseless speculation) is that we use intuition to consider the decision pipeline closed and the matter settled. We keep at it until it feels right.

In this representation, "system 1" is simply an early pipeline decision, where one intuitively feels that it is the correct decision immediately. And if a satisfying decision doesn't come up, we keep looping over the decision, adding more factors, until we finally find the factors that make our intuition agree with it and close the matter. The longer we try to find a satisfactory decision, the more factors we try out, and therefore, someone came up with "system 2", but I see "system 2" as a particularly bad misrepresentation: it is still the same system looping, we are just staying in it longer.

The source of my theory is the interesting effect of a broken intuition: OCD sufferers are unable to break from this cycle, and even when intellectually satisfied with a conclusion, they perceive their brains as "stuck" in the question.

So fundamentally, I agree with your general idea: intuition plays a major role in this system, and when it breaks, people get paralyzed in it, no matter how good the decision is intellectually. My only point is that there is no division of systems. It's one single subsystem, integrated with many others, forming one single blackbox entity. The fast/slow thinking framework is a misrepresentation that doesn't really help one understand people's behaviors. It's a bad map.
Is ghostview still going? Haven't heard of that since university 25 years ago when that was the only tool for .ps files.
“We all agreed to breathe harder when talking about it, and you have no right of vote here”. That’s how I perceive this art thing. It often is objective, but it’s always amplified 100x+ by some heavy breath and tonal attitude. General subjectivity doesn’t even have a voice here. That curator could use a good collar grab stare.
Being able to easily set it up so it sends key combinations to remote servers at will (including ctrl/meta/shift combos) was my main reason; this enabled my seamless interactions with remote Emacs servers. 24bit color and italics were the cherry on top. The shells within Emacs have unlimited and easily searchable/editable state. I can log into a shell buffer and copy paste a debug diagnostic output together with the command line; I can quickly create minimal example oneliners iteratively to help debug a problem and paste both input and output at any point in time, including days later. I can search all my open shells (often dozens; sometimes hundreds) for any commands or outputs trivially. This is hard to achieve if the terminal gets in the way to using Emacs in the way I like, when some key combo is impossible to transmit, and I have to rewire things to the minimal common subset that Terminal.app supports and hope that it will not break in the future. Finally, without public source code, I dont think I can truly trust a terminal ever. It feels too personal. Of course apple has control of the hardware and I live with that restriction for parts of my life, but I am less concerned about apple monitoring/intercepting my work, and rather worried about the full number of exploits in the terminal app that remain to be uncovered in the near term. I agree that too many features are a drawback of iterm; at least the code is there and the useful features work well enough.
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Based on the ones I have worked with and the news and commments I read on HN I do not consider "software engineers" to be professionals. I have personally seen how they waste enormous amounts of time.
Wow you make it even more inspiring if you put it that way
Balmer (and Cuban) seem to love continuing to do other, big stuff.
> I am so much more used to the short versions hence I prefer `grep -RF` over `grep --dereference-recursive --fixed-strings`. Also, my go-to documentation about these commands (POSIX) doesn't even know about the long options.
I know that the advice to prefer the long options is repeated pretty often so it might just be me :)

It is not just you.

I also prefer short options for most “standard” commands (e.g. everything POSIX). I don’t see any value in educating readers in the long options of grep, or ls, or cat.

OTOH using long options may be useful for less common commands, or if the commands are specific to the software the tutorial is about.
Forgot the name, but it's a variant of Hawthorne's laws for computers. If tech gets faster, programs will work to fill that newfound space and performance. even if it's just a simple web text page.

But no one complains and it lets them ship faster. So not much will change here.
I truly wish I had a bibliography to give you but it has been so obviously true to me that I hadn't bothered to catalogue all of this information. I'll try to get you started though. Start by familiarizing yourself with the Snowden leaks and how the government buys data from private companies to violate the constitution. Second, look for articles like this one: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2450052/do-smartphones-liste... This kind of thing is published periodically. Apple lost a lawsuit over Siri spying "inadvertently" very recently: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-... There is no reason to believe that your phone is ever not listening. The audio can at least be transcribed and catalogued.

If companies are willing to track your every click and mouse movement, every footstep and slight movement you make with your phone even while you are asleep, build and bundle keyboard apps to capture what you type, monitor you with AI, etc., are you seriously surprised that they would not also listen to you? None of that stuff I just described is fiction. It's established tech that has been documented over time. The only reason it's not 100% illegal is because the EULA probably covers it.

I swear people who think they aren't listening when they can seem like people who would be shocked to learn that an armed carjacker might demand your wallet in addition to your car. Unreal...

Oh yeah one more tip. Try to use the data export feature from Google or Facebook. You might just be surprised what you find. I've heard of people finding recordings of private conversations picked up by Google devices. I personally found hundreds of Facebook messages and posts that I deleted with a tool, and aren't visible to anyone (OK maybe the messages make sense but not the posts).
Interesting, thank you! Gonna watch this asap
Or even better:

# TODO: set back to 0

This appears as a warning in my editor, and of course is greppable
Modern APIs are actually most of the times poor man's RPC, they don't need to exist, much less known.
> Internet as a concept was not considered a raw telecommunications service

You're making a common parlance argument against statutory interpretation. Go with what the law actually says an information service is versus a telecommunications service.

> its concern was much more that MCI and AT&T might try to suppress the Internet in favor of some MCI- or AT&T-specific information services.

This is exactly the concern that NN proponents have today. It's the same RBOCs of yore wearing a mask and arguing they're something they aren't. And That by controlling the pipes (many of which have no viable or slim competition) the ISPs can (and have tried) to push certain information services they own and operate or have financial deals with over others with unequal billing and network management policies.
Absolutely childish.

I felt similar when I finished my PhD. It was the singular “thing” in my life to the exclusion of all others. Luckily I was 150k in debt so I didn’t have the luxury of acting like a buffoon for months.

Man if I was rich I’d donate half, invest half, and go back to stocking a small family owned grocery store like when I was in high school. I really enjoyed that job.
I would even go so far as: if you see reactions like "this is shoddy work, the author should Just Do Better", you can generally surmise that the person making the comment has a poor understanding of fallibility and will make a lot of these mistakes themselves.
Why would you think any of those things are not a lot of tiring work, emotional drain and expensive? I don't understand why you can't do any of these as a hobby now, and need to wait until you're "rich" and won't have any real skin in the game.
I have two different reactions to this:

- From the perspective of e.g. C++, I don't think it's reinventing the heap. We often prefer to use indexes into a std::vector or similar, even when putting everything in std::shared_ptr is an option, because the dense layout of the vector gives us the blazing fast cache performance we crave. It also avoids memory leaks from reference cycles.

- From the perspective of e.g. Python, yeah it's reinventing the heap. Unless you need to serialize the whole collection into JSON or something, it's much less convenient. But (almost) no one uses Rust instead of Python just for the convenience. (There are dozens of us! Dozens!)
Neat. I stayed at an Airbnb recently with a microphone based one, which was easy to unplug, and led me to give a 0-star review, because fuck you for putting an internet-enabled microphone in my space. I’d be much more comfortable with this.
German cars tend to be cheap because maintenance costs are crazy. The have more parts, and each part is more expensive.

You could easily get hit with a mechanic bill for greater than the value
How long have you travelled the world?
I thought I was true Zildjian head but had no idea they shared common ties with Istanbul (the brand). This is super fascinating, thanks for sharing.
I wonder if you could trigger false alarms at will. At what point would the owners stop responding?
Yes same story. Father of 2 kids, working wife, demanding job, extended work hours so we are just changing months over calendar but this year I have set a goal and decided to start focusing on the time I spend on me. Basically avoid the unnecessary stuff from my daily routine, no news, social media, focus on health and hopefully move up in career. Wish me a luck!
Who cares? Information wants to be free. You put your stuff out there for free, it's hoovered up and sold back to you by capitalists, that sucks, but you've still made a real contribution to society. Meanwhile a select few will still find your stuff directly. Maybe what you shared will make just one person's life a little bit better, and that was your impact - you made a difference! Capitalists will never have that feeling, because anyone consuming their repackaged content is paying for the privilege - any benefit to society is just an incidental side-effect of their greed. Sucks to be them.

The way I see it, this is exactly what life is about. Do you want to make a positive impact in society? Then share your knowledge, your experiences, your creations. People will try to capitalize on your work, and they might even get rich from it, but oh well. It doesn't take away from your own contribution to the ongoing story of humanity.

I don't have or want kids, but I see my existence in society and free contributions to the "collective consciousness", such as it is, as my legacy. For me that's comforting. I'm choosing to be part of something bigger. If I just disappeared from society and lived like a hermit, or if I buried myself completely in my day job working for capitalists and not producing anything outside of that, I think I'd lose my sense of meaning.
Ok those things are interesting though not killer level for me. But I moved away from Mac now because I found their stuff too opinionated. I use KDE now. I wonder if iTerm2 also exists on Linux if it's open source?
> I personally think its fraudulent

It's fraudulent only because Github use "stars" to rank popular repos.

I think a repo should be ranked by code quality and update activity rather than "stars"
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So, Lee Harvey Oswald?
The new thing in Corporate controlled apartments is they have your apartment fully set up with remote telemetry, which also means they have WiFi Hotspots installed in all units. From there, they track things like the hot water tank, water in the sink, heating/cooling, etc..

I can see "PartySquasher" type technology becoming a feature in w/corporate controlled apartments. Mine is particularly intrusive (Park Place, San Mateo) - in that they also have all the doors digitalized as well as the entry into mailroom/complex via Bluetooth authentication. Just to make sure you have to digitally log in to your apartment - they also lock you in 120 seconds after entering, so you can't just leave your door unlocked.

You just know that this is absolutely the future of housing once private equity starts to dominate the corporate landlord space.
Life doesn't always play out with clean narratives. People change in unexpected ways and sometimes getting through a tough time is specifically what prompts growth.

The alternative is to live a lie or never change.
From their website:

> Our service is ideal for detached homes, where our calibration (small, medium or large homes) lets the sensor distinguish between mobile phones on your property and those nearby. It is not suitable to homes (e.g. apartments) that share walls with other homes.
why are Landlords like this?
I'd say she dodged a bullet. Hope this psycho never has any offspring. The world has enough of them already.
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Like most things in life the need grows to just beyond the level you can supply. Maybe someone with nothing starts with "keep them alive" but once that's covered you move up the hierarchy.
NB, title adapted from "Adult skills in literacy and numeracy declining or stagnating in most OECD countries" for length.
> forever wars

And yet they're allying with Trump and his Republicans? Republicans are responsible for the most recent US "forever wars", and Trump has threatened to invade various countries Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, publicly proposed annexing Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Greenland, has fired missiles into numerous countries like Syria, assassinated an Iranian general, etc.

And Trump loudly opposes various orgs that are responsible for holding aggressive powers at bay, like how NATO represents a check on Russia's apparent violent expansionism.

Trump's approach to geopolitics seems just as violent as his predecessors but more mercurial and erratic.
> Apple lost a lawsuit over Siri spying "inadvertently" very recently

That's what my article is about: it's about how I'm certain people will use this settled-out-of-court lawsuit as "evidence" that Apple are spying and targeting ads, but it's very clear that's not what was happening here.
The outcome of this case pushes power away from the executive, and towards the legislature.
This is likely due to legal reasons. I remember some child protection law where many forums decided to shut down rather than be legally and financially liable for breaking these laws.
It’s abandonware at this point. Even Windows Terminal is better now which is just embarrassing.
> having an embarrassing issue like this is probably going to improve

LastPass disagrees.
Don't mind me with 100s of // TODO in my codebases.