skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to just talk to a 'trumpist' than to find correlations in all these statistics. If you're a leftist the conclusions drawn from the data make sense, if you're anywhere on the right of that it just looks like a reverberation of leftist thought and not of any actual meaning or understanding about what they're experiencing in the real world.
Why does it need to be safe to 'take into your body'? I'm not going to drink lead paint or the turpentine used to clean brushes either.
I think it's a bad thing for the lower ranks and a really good thing for leadership.

Frugality can mean being penny wise pound foolish. Not buying tools people need, building things when you could buy them, and settling for less. It's hard to evaluate people on frugality without it being about cheapness. I would argue buying top of the line monitors, software, computers and chairs for your engineers is the frugal choice with the best mid and long term value for your money, but will it look like that to others? Likewise I've seen cultures where the CTO had to approve buying a $50 replacement laptop charger - that's just a waste of time.

That said, leadership should be very deliberate in how money is spent. Taken too far, you can end up with a bunch of high cost low value tools. For example many times I've seen AWS bills where a few weeks of work means millions in savings per year, or tools that cost $10s of thousands per month but are only used by 1-2 people. And that adds up.
I built the Turn Touch remote[1] to basically bring back the old Apple Remote features. Music and video control for your laptop.

[1]: turntouch.com
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I think it does add something, but people here are too sold on certain narratives to approach opposing ones with an open mind.

There is a fine line between donation and payment laundering. The latter happens more often than people would like to believe. For the thousands of 501c3s out there, there's nowhere near enough grannies writing $25 checks to keep even half of them in the black.

edit: and we are not alone in this suspicion

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html
> Consider that the parent who berates his child for smoking marihuana to be part of his clique will the next day consume alcohol at his office party, as to not be left out.

I don't think this is good example. I dont want my kids to drink alcohol yet. When I do drink alcohol, it is really not so that "I am not left out". Pretty much all office parties I have been at had bunch of people who were not drinking in them.

And marihuana has added effect of being illegal in many places.

And if your kid is smoking it so that the kid fits, it absolutely makes sense to treat it as issue. Regardless of whether you sometimes drink alcohol at office party.
It might also be Windows 98 running in 16 color mode.
We have a dslr and just use a USB-C cable. It’s much more convenient for me than the SD card is. I can also use it with an iPad.
If by that you mean that valuations are not the result of a rational process, you are correct.

But investment strategy isn't so much about any underlying reality as it is about the psychology of market participants. You don't invest based on what you hope will happen, but what you believe will happen.
Kara will eventually figure out that writing things on the internet doesn't matter anymore (including my comment). One person in facepaint wearing a fake animal pelt moves the needle more than the collected works of Swisher, Greenwald, Taibbi, etc etc. Just another pithy editorial for you to harumph.
He knows too much about the topic to be bullshitting. Also, he does not pretend to have better answers than anyone else.

But IMHO Lex tries too hard getting deep/philosophical answers from his guests. And some guests clearly are not into “can we ever understand the brain and what would that even mean?”-type discussions.

If you want to see a real AI bullshit artist in action, look up recent appearances of Ben Goertzel.
Even a short requires a counter party to fulfill!

If market craters and the counter party to your short disappears, where are you going? The SEC? Finra?

Honestly, you really have no idea.....
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A piece of advice I once got from an old boss and very successful entrepreneur was to focus on increasing revenue, not on decreasing costs. I said don’t both ways increase profits? He responded that your costs could only go down 1x but your revenue can go up almost infinitely.

Not to say that frivolity is good and frugality is always bad. But it shouldn’t be an obsession.

As an employee I would much rather work for a company with soaring revenues than one with quickly decreasing costs :)
How come you use your Amiga regularly? Is there something specific you use it for?
It's not that hard if you have a theory of music like a pro like Beethoven does. It's like writing a program. You aren't picking a note at a time, you are laying down "tracks" with parameters.
35% of the country looks at the videos and says "yeah, must be antifa"
...not to mention the leaking of metadata.
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You can transmit power through non-ferrous metals.
There is also a group called The Fisherman's Friends from Port Isaac in Cornwall UK. They had a hit record and a film made about them (typical British dramatised RomCom). I think this made a lot of people conscious of the sea shanty.

https://thefishermansfriends.com/
> This is the type of behavior Apple intends to prevent with their signed app distribution, loathed by so many here.

Just because something is a solution, it doesn't automatically make it good. I can _at the same time_say that it is problematic that people die in the traffic _and_ loathe banning cars altogether.

Letting Apple act as the internet court might help on some problems. But letting a commercial entity act as legislative, executive, and Judicial power in the software distribution realm is simply not a good solution.
The article says "It’s a draft" at the bottom. I don't think this article was meant to be widely shared.
>> AI agents will control the future, and which ones we create is the only thing about our time that will matter in the long run.

Every time there's a big story in the news about a new thing achieved by an AI
system, someone will lose their shit and go on social media to say how it's a
sign of the end times where Terminators will roam the Earth and humans will hide
in caves. At least the article has the common indicency of placing this
inevitable eventuality "in the future", with all the precision typical of palm
readers and popular entertainers.

For perspective, here's an article I found by following the wikipedia links on
Gary Kasparov's 1997 defeat by Deep Blue in chess:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/be-afraid...

The article is titled "Be Afraid" (!) and it includes passages like the
following:

In Game Two, Deep Blue passed the Turing test. Yes, of course, it was for
chess only, a very big caveat. But, first, no one was ever quite sure that a
machine ever would pass even this limited test.

And second, if a computer has passed the Turing test for chess, closed logical
system though it may be, that opens the possibility that computers might in
time pass the Turing test in other areas.

Besides the typical abuse of the Turing test to mean anything anyone wants it to
mean, as long as it means something as vague and fuzzy as it is irrelevant, I
remind the esteemed reader that the year is 1997 and people are raising the
alarm about AI going superintelligent and taking over the world a long time
before Eliezer Yudkowski or Elon Musk and OpenAI. And if you look further back,
you'll find similar predictions of AI being "just around the corner" since 1957.
Maybe we need to build guns that can shoot behind corners, to protect ourselves
from evil superintelligences, eh?

So hold your horses and don't lose your mind. AI today is just as limited as it
was in 1997 and in 1957. We have more data and bigger computers but we still
don't understand intelligence and our best bet to reproduce it on a digital
computer remains the hope that it will somehow arise, magickally, unexpectedly,
on its own, fully formed like Athena from the brow of Zeus, if only we throw
more big data and more big computers at narrow tasks in irrelevant domains- like
chess, Atari, Dota 2... or, indeed, protein structure prediction (not quite a
hallmark of intelligence that).
Based on an academic article by the same author linked down-thread, the 100k year number is derived from when he thinks humans migrated from Africa. If you think that happened closer to 80kya (wiki estimate is around 60kya), I don't think that changes the fundamentals much.
Of the MANY different ones I have tried (both 24-pin tb3 and 20-pin usb-c) NONE of the magnetic adapters work the same as a regular connection. When they are plugged in and you close the lid (macbook pro m1), they keep the display active. When using a "proper" cable, the display sleeps.

If anyone has found one that works properly, please let me know where I can get one!

Edit: Not sure why I am getting downvotes for this... Care to enlighten me?
nice insights, thanks for sharing. Yup investing time & money properly without just considering cheapness/pricing can go a long way.
metadata are leaked by mnm, activitypub, xmpp, matrix & so on
how does he move the needle by being arrested and things reverting to how they were
>The ideal exact connectors probably differ a lot per person

While I'd probably prefer more ports, there's certainly an argument to keep things simple with USB-C and let most people buy their adapter of choice.

With respect to HDMI, it's very common in offices and for people speaking at events, but most consumers wouldn't use it much.
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This is the common use of "delete". Just a flag in the db to hide that specific message.
It's important to note these adapters go against the USB C spec.
> With Go I just compile a static binary, rsync it to a server and turn it on

With "turning it on", you mean you write a systemd configuration file and start it using systemctl, right? Just curious how people do this stuff nowadays.
I'd always looked at it as there being '2 strands' within the company.
There's the main one, where you "make the money" - this (obviously) has to be profitable at all costs. Then there's the other than intertwines around this to serve the first indirectly - and you can be more flexible here.
e.g. Revenue from google's adwords has to support the cost of their infrastructure and free services - if that's ticking along well, you can have the nice buildings, free chef meals etc. This can be turned up and down depending on the market.

Counter-example that springs to mind is AvE's Juicero teardown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ&ab_channel=AvE

Their product was lavishly over-engineered and beautifully made at vast expense - they were never going to make their costs back however over-priced their fruit-pods were. The more customers they got, the more it was going to cost. Frankly didn't make any difference if the Juicero staff were getting free meals or not (or had their salaries halved) - the lack of frugality at the core of their business doomed them.
> f(x) is O(g(x)) iff there exists a positive number M and an x_0 such that for all x > x_0, |f(x)| <= Mg(x).

Correct.

Corollary: x is O(x^2), for example.
Penny-pinching the cost of the ingredients makes sense if and only if you don't value the impact or you want to pay a team which has "maintaining food supplier relationships" as 1 out of 3 ongoing focus areas. If there is a team with that ongoing mission, it can build the skills needed to reduce the cost of inputs without reducing the quality of impact.

Penny-pinching AWS cost makes sense if and only if you want to pay a team which has "responsively manage compute resources" as 1 of 3 ongoing focus areas.
Doesn't look like. According to Japanese Wikipedia they used to be also called 六連星 ("group of 6 stars", I think?).
Nothing has reverted, they are creating a permanent green zone around the Capitol right now.
The big question is how automatic and streamlined can you make this governance, because I know for sure most devs doing open source today want nothing to do with it. However, if it meant a path to being actually paid to do open source, maybe they would.
got it, thanks for sharing, optimize to increase revenue instead of just focusing on cutting cost.
Seconded. But why legacy browsers? My mid-2010 MBP, still going strong, runs High Sierra, which supports all current browsers.
Why do you put it in quotes? He did AI research and published papers at MIT, also he taught a (or more) Deep Learning course at MIT with lots of participants, the lecture recordings are available on YouTube. I think it's quite clear he knows his stuff and isn't a bullshit artist at all.

He is well prepared for the interviews, he listens intently and asks important and curious questions to high profile researchers. The discussion is often at a level (of technicality) that I haven't seen anywhere else for a very very long time. In the age of oversimplified soundbites and 3-5 minute interviews for the lowest common denominator average lay audience on mainstream TV, Lex brings a breath of fresh air and proves that long and difficult interviews that dig deep can also have their place.

Look through his archives and pick a guest you are interested in. If you are interested in AI discussions, I'm pretty sure you'll find tons of interesting people on that list.
Looks like the author deleted the tweet out of fear.

> I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me

https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...
> When you're forty, you don't care what people think.

I assure you that 40 years old do care about what people think. Partly, because people are simply wired that way, that is why we are social animals instead of solitary ones.

But the other is that it matters. What people think about you influences how they treat you, what they tell you and what chances they give you. It makes difference between being listened to and being ignored.
Are you saying that was his intention?
This is not aimed personally at you; i've always had a problem understanding why big companies need to dominate all the market? If i have a successful local business, it's not hurting me that others do as well. I don't need to expand all over the globe to be successful. What's wrong with google not operating in china? Why can't google flourish as it is without dominating the market? I think you get my point here so i won't give more examples. I never did understand why people and organizations want to accumulate extreme amounts of power and wealth either. Like the bad guys in many movies. Of course that would defeat the purpose of the movie, but i often found myself thinking that if they spent half of that energy to the betterment of them selves (and others), it would probably be a pretty sweet life.
I'm a Brit, pushing 40. I'm educated to degree level (1st class, FWIW), and very well read (including the venerable Pratchett, though I don't think I have read Jingo yet).

I think I heard the word "jingoism" for the first time ever around 5 years ago. It is not a word one hears very often, and it certainly didn't come to mind from "JingOS".

If you often read high-brow political publications you may come across "jingoism" on the daily, but that is obviously not a huge cross-section of the public.

TBH, kind of bizarre how strongly this jingoism thing is being pushed in this thread.
The rule to maximize life of Li-Ion batteries is to keep them between 20% and 80%. Total charge and discharge current cause wear, especially in extreme states of charge. The number of cycles only matters when you assume a given amount of charge in each cycle.

The batteries of my 7 years old previous laptop, which was used mostly stationarily and mostly kept at 75-80% state of charge, are still at above 90% capacity. I don't fully trust the >90% reported, but the batteries are quite obviously still good.
They're heavily designed for community building. The call/response format means it's easy to join after hearing it once or twice. The lyrics are usually a limerick of sorts, and the chorus never changes.

The tune is designed to carry itself without musical accompaniment, has limited range, and is easy to harmonize with. The coarse lyrics about various hardships and simple tune almost lend itself to voices that aren't particularly sweet, and that gives it a charming character of it's own.

Now, given that people have been quarantined for months on end, sea shanties are a drop in for a want for community.
I respectfully disagree. Apple prevents that kind of behaviour by requiring user to explicitly grant permission to a program trying to access certain parts of file system.

It has nothing to do with signing.
Yes. I intend both meanings simultaneously.
Yay it's feasible, $85 bucks in txfee room!
> the maker of the best laptops in the world agrees with you

Who exactly would that be in your opinion?
The reason we went with a company similar to Vanta (StrikeGraph) wasn't infosec. It was that SOC2 is enormous and spans beyond infosec, its controls and requirements are arcane, and having experts that have done this before set you up for success in your $50k, year-long investment to get to a Type 2 audit is hugely valuable.
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This can be turned off in the settings: "Security" -> "Re-lock when going into the background"
V8 is still in C++, but the wrapper, in my understanding, is all Rust now.
I found it amusing how on the one side we're being told is a full-fledged Linux under the hood, and on the other side they felt it was worth noting that it comes with a native calculator app.
One aspect I wished the author of this post touched on are the challenges that open source governance will have between copyleft and permissive open source licensing models (the former designed for long-term viability and the latter designed to get project traction in the short term).
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Crayola is calling the crayon made with this color "Bluetiful", does that help? Wikipedia also refers to it as "Oregon Blue, Mas Blue, or Yin Min Blue" so I think it will be commonly called something else.

Anyways, you're on HN, you know geeks shouldn't name things, but they do anyways. Think "XBox" as a perfect example.
I always found it annoying that when talking about "Orwellian", we always conflate it to surveillance or maybe censorship.

While to my interpretation of the book is that society has been engineered to work like a dystopian machine.
Are you saying you don't need to read or run your code to debug it? You just mull it over and run it in your head?
Subaru itself cited[1] Kojiki literature from the 8th century when talking about the origin of its name.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100411083646/http://www.subaru...

Unfortunately, trying to find anything more online, such as what exactly the Kojiki says about them, doesn't seem to yield much.
It’s really bizarre that these people all insist that President Trump “incited” the attack. There’s a sinister undertone of hate and othering behind this narrative. They want revenge against 75,000,000 (and growing) populist right-leaning voters.
Have you heard of BackStage [1]? A few companies have been adopting it to help make teams and departments to help devs. Target is a notable example of going from a really unproductive environment to much more supportive of devs [2]. Including handling building out infrastructure stacks you mentioned.
* 1. https://backstage.io/
* 2. https://tech.target.com/
That's what the biometric access is for. Choose a strong password, use fingerprint or face-reader for quick access.
There's less need to jump through all these hoops if you have physical access to a PC with enabled USB ports. For example: you could boot from the USB device and access the local storage if it's not encrypted.

EDIT: I meant to say "if you have physical access without Bitlocker enabled". Bitlocker is protecting the contents of the storage, if you can bypass the lockscreen on a Bitlocker protected computer you've evaded this protection.
I love the theory of Great Filters. I'm pretty sure that #9 on the list should be "social media", though. Or in general, "self destructing human behavior."
I am sorry to say that after reading the paper, I found no discussion of this matter.
Yup, it's a shame that there aren't any USB-C type fit drives. Obviously it's a question of space. But I love it how the USB-A connector is basically now able to house an entire flash drive.
yup true that accountability of money/cost has to be there but just been frugal at all cost doesn't work and can be disastrous in turn. Thanks for sharing.
>nothing to do with "seven sisters"

I don’t see anyone claiming that Subaru means seven sisters. It’s just another name for the same constellation.
Parties have nothing to do with positions on issues and everything to do with choosing a clan to be a part of and a clan to be against.
I started using Snapchat some time ago too. I think it's useful tool for students.
Huh, I have that same pet theory.
There are two approaches to full disk encryption. The first one is the traditional approach: The encryption is applied independently from the operating system. The key is controlled by the user. The system cannot even boot without the correct key because the underlying hard drive is inaccessible. The disadvantage is the need of entering (very long) keys manually on boot.

The second approach, which is popular on phones and tablets, is to use disk encryption transparently, usually with hardware assistance. On boot, the key is automatically filled in by hardware (TPM for BitLocker) when some conditions are met, no passphrase is asked. In this case, the disk encryption employed is not really a "true" encryption [0], instead, it's an extension of operating system's authentication mechanism. BitLocker's sole purpose is to prevent anyone from bypassing the login screen by pulling out the hard drive, rewriting the password, and putting the hard drive back in. It's also why smartphones can be reasonably secure even with a 4-digit PIN.

This authentication exploit bypasses the login screen despite BitLocker, so it's technically a BitLocker bypass, although it doesn't break any crypto.

BitLocker can be configured to use either the first approach or the second approach. The second approach is used on many systems by default. As the exploit has shown, if you have serious security requirements, using the first approach is more secure (but do remember to shut down the computer often).

[0] For example, in case of TPM, the BitLocker key can also be physically extracted on boot using a logic analyzer to monitor the communication between the host and TPM... Nevertheless, if you can put a security coprocessor into the CPU itself, it can be reasonably secure since key extraction is really difficult, some smartphone's encryption (e.g. iPhone) uses this method.
Signal doesn't copy across old messages across devices. But I'm told it syncs going forward.
Seems to me that now the US election is over the MSM is back to sniping at the big tech that stole its eyeballs.
People want to start mining asteroids for their precious metal content.
there is no content here. I wish she had said more

Being an asshole is not the worst thing you can be. A lot of famous, successful people who are well liked have somewhat asshole qualities. The thing you really do not want to be is an ignoramus--someone who is an asshole but with no redeeming qualities.