skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No hate. I am an enabler. I help our teams do what they need to do to move forward securely. When there is an issue, I respond to the event then quickly contain and remediate so business can continue. It is part of my job to help them understand this.
So does cash, but its not like I'm clamoring to outlaw that.
As seen from another capitalist country, namely Switzerland, I take the "higher interest" rates as a tired argumentative "canard". It's a false idea perpetrated by lobbyists.

We don't have such databases. The difference here is that the bank's mortgage divisions have much lower profits, because checking somebody out is actually done by humans. It costs the credit provider more. US style mortgage broker do not exist.

Low- and Middle- income people here do not have houses because of high real estate prices due to very restrictive zoning (the country is small), and on average much, much, much more expensive construction than in the US. Here people expect a fully concrete house, near-to-passive level insulation, with 30-40 years free of any big renovation.

In conclusion: we do without an Equifax just fine.
But brain size does correlate with intelligence, 0.3-0.4. It accounts for about 15% of variability.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-brain-size-m....
A story is often presented as:

Problem --> Solution

Place the problem first, the suspense -- grab them and capture their interest with that, like a mystery novel. Then they will know why they're on the journey with you

Also, know your first and last sentence. Here is a more recent example of mine:

My friend's son was cutting himself with a knife. His mother was
screaming "Yes! Finish the job. We want to be free of you." My
friend prayed "God, please make this stop." Immediately a voice
shouted their names from the street

...

Last sentence wrap-up:

Only through perfect sacrifice can I know perfect love. This we find in Jesus -- perfect assurance, perfect peace

And here's a photo of my friend, his son, daughter, wife; a couple of days after embracing his son
Jeff Bezos is more insufferable than Larry Ellison. We should all be proud of his accomplishment.
Using the weather map analogy again, you’ll only have accurate data for some parts of the map and you’ll need to rely on second hand information or predictive modeling to fill in the other parts and after all of that sometimes you just have to go look for yourself.
As much as I'd love to do this tour myself, I'd be quite willing to settle for a high resolution VR tour instead. Even better if it could be developed to have both an "on-rails" tour and a free-to-explore versions. (well, freeish, you have to limit where the data gathering camera goes when developing)
It other countries did the same humanity would be in an endless state of global war until extinction.

Besides, the idea that starting wars is an effective method to prevent losing wars is completely illogical.
Easy to say when you’re there’s no stack ranking for your position. He’s created a super competitive culture that makes his working habits impossible for anyone else at Amazon.
Safari uses an OS level thing for decoding images — this is why Safari 14 for MacOS “Big Sur” can display WebP images, but Safari 14 Catalina cannot. So it is possible that Chrome is using the same system lib to render images, which thusly can display P3.

But I would hazard a guess that if you tried to pump P3 color through CSS or an SVG in Chrome, that would fail.
While it is certainly true that outside auditors (with enforcement authority) would never be allowed into a bioweapons lab of either China or the USA, it also doesn't really seem to be the case that the virology lab in Wuhan was a bioweapons lab. Most labs doing this kind of research are not bioweapons labs. Moreover, due to the national security implications, bioweapons labs tend at least to have good security about letting stuff out, if for the wrong reasons. If we had outside auditing of all non-bioweapons labs doing this kind of research, it would still greatly reduce the collective risk, if only because that would be most of the labs.
Best way to capitalize on this?

Infosec employees follow the same anemic HR compensation song and dance, often lumped in with all engineering as a category.

Security startups are known as "cockroaches," they never die but are a hard bunch to grow into unicorns.

Contracting really only seems amenable to a small bump in lifestyle business level rates.
Exactly! Security is important and sandboxing is a good way to achieve some of that. However a lot of vendors combine that with taking away our control as the user.

Having security shouldn't have to mean giving up the keys to our digital kingdom. Apple takes the easy way too much. Sure you can disable things like SIP but then you lose the security aspect completely as well. It shouldn't have to be all or nothing.

And we can see already where this leads to with iOS. Emulators? Nope, not permitted. Browsers with their own engine? Nope. No, the Mac isn't there yet but it's sure heading there.
You mean their sex, not their gender. Gender as a concept hadn't even been invented yet:

> Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories.[1][2] However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.

From the Wikipedia page for gender
Psychopaths run many of the world's governments, too. It's exceedingly unlikely we could have ever reached the current state of affairs if our "leaders" were not in collusion with the actual "powers-that-be" (giant corporations).
To answer myself - there is no "Open file" functionality. Images need to be "Imported to database".
My list of applications that I need to run on Windows, instead if Linux, has almost completely disappeared (I can only think of one). I have used Linux for probably 15 years and can say that the user experience has never been better (for the lay person that just wants something that works).

The final nail in the coffin of Windows for me is Steam Play. So many of my Windows games just work, right out of the box on Linux. It feels like magic compared to the old days of trying to hack together a workable Wine config...
I'm a developer in an organisation with a large dedicated security team. I've been given advice but can't think of a time when I've been blocked.
High-resolution microscope built from Lego and bits of phone
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> it is about financial capabilities

Request for future: More about this, please.

Since binging on the acquired.fm podcast, I'm becoming more aware of the money side of things.

By way of analogy:

"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics."

I spent my career solving cool problems ("strategy"). While the geeks minding the business and finance stuff ("logistics") faired quite a bit better.
#latestagecapitalism
> But the way to do that is just to churn my book a lot and pay costs and spreads. It's not clear how that illuminates how to make money.

Well it suggests to invest long-term?
he might know some about the material science behind things but yeah, that said I'd like to hear about actual semi/physics researchers on the matter
It's much easier talk about integrating life and work and shun compartmentalization of work when you see much more direct returns from the output of your work/not work, rather than having a fixed salary.
Bran Cohen himself got into cryptocurrency with Chia (which is however otherwise unrelated to BitTorrent), and BitTorrent itself got swallowed into TRON.

So yeah, it is already tied to a cryptocurrency scheme.
Here as well. Fortunately, there's been less subsidence since the rains started falling again, about a decade or so back.
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No, that isn't likely. The email storage used is part of our cost, but a relatively small part compared to the support, operations, and development costs. We don't have any other business subsidising the email service, and we're not intestered in a race to provide the cheapest, no-frills product.
How does maintaining military readiness and being at war in Afghanistan relate? Isn't it reducing our military readiness and preparatory investment? Couldn't we have bought hundreds of aircraft carriers for the cost?
Stupid me never learned the trick of failing upwards.
I absolutely love Darktable and also Sagelight. My photo editors ever.
This is the kind of feedback I like to hear! Thank you, and the support team will be pleased to hear that you're happy.
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He should perhaps publish stats of staff turnaround and regrettable attrition. How long does an average junior hire last? Its easy to be happy at work when your bathroom breaks are not counted and timed.
In the U.S. there is Patch [1] It does not have every community / city but it might have something close to you.

[1] - https://patch.com/
Spot on. They used to call me 'Dr. No' because that is exactly what I would do, but it saved us tons of money so it was tolerated. We also actually delivered on time and within the budget but I'm sure it cost us contracts to more optimistic competitors.
There is no substance to what he was quoted as saying in this article. What does he mean by it being a 'circle' ? I think work life balance is more of a dodecahedron.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14
Less heat = more cores
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I was wondering why AMD didn't finally get access to the top notch process at TSMC. They can have some of the best margins in their products, just because they ended being the best now and they certainly have the volume already. They didn't even start addressing notebooks or the lower ends of the market with Zen 3.

Zen 3 is probably the fastest CPU on the market, it is not even scaled down to N5 or N6 which could get power consumption down to the best we have seen for notebook market.

Instead the rumors are that in 2022 the improvements will go mostly into packaging extra cache. And now the next processes are already booked by others.
In JS functions, the ‘last’ return wins
It is a sad say when Reddit has higher quality details than HN.
160+ million people in the Us have had at least 1 vaccine shot, so I guess the answer to your question is yes.
An article about this: https://boilingsteam.com/the-state-of-virtual-reality-on-lin...
I agree. darktable is super powerful but the UI could use some cleanup. I also don't like the concept of film rolls. I would prefer if it just worked off a disk folder hierarchy. A dream would be to combine the file management of digikam with the darktable image processing engine.

I also agree that you have to have way more knowledge of image processing concepts compared to Lightroom and Capture One who shield you from these things.

But the biggest upside of darktable is that they expose a ton of functionality and constantly ship new stuff. Yes, you have to figure it out but at least there is progress. With Capture One I paid yearly for upgrades that didn't add much new stuff but often only polished existing features.

One more thought about the learning curve: It took me years to get used to and comfortable with a lot of quirks in Capture One so I expect the same with darktable too.
R has something similar, it's called textplot.
Seems long covid fogs the market analysts brains too.
WireGuard is a simple and secure new protocol that most VPN companies are moving to. It doesn't do the key rotation or TOTP authentication part however.
+1
Don't get overwhelmed by the miriad of Linux distros to choose from. As OP said, start with Linux Mint. It is super user-friendly and based on Ubuntu/Debian which makes it stable and widely supported in terms of applications, drivers, etc. You can always switch to something more exotic later if you want, but IMHO Mint is one of the best there is for a normal Desktop experience.
They key is long-term…
Well that is one advantage the Chinese also have. They are ruthless enough to either work with them or wipe them from existence.
Different role, different scope, different situation. The SEC has limited power to target individuals compared to a credit rating agency. It would be a scandal to politicize the SEC, but it would not be the sort of nightmare that a politicized credit rating agency could become.

It is also worth pointing out that both the credit ratings and audits of publicly traded corporations are conducted by private-sector companies, not government agencies. The SEC's primary role is to ensure that the rules are being followed, which is a straightforward law-enforcement/regulatory role that makes sense for a government agency.
The argument by people who understand how banking systems work is that cryptocurrencies facilitate anonymous transfers of large amounts of money with zero risk to the criminals.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ransomware.html
I'd love to help but can you be more specific? Until then, taking a guess at what you mean exactly:

- importing a DNG into the application: in the top-left there's an "import" button and a "folder" button to import files and/or folders. Navigate to the folder with your DNG. Select it, import it, like you'd expect opening files to work

- after importing you're still in the "lightroom" section, which is the gallery of all imported photos. On the left you can filter by "film roll", representing photos you imported together. You can also rate selected photos zero to five stars, label them rejected or with a color (all on the bottom row), and then further filter out photos via controls at the top.

- to edit a photo you need to go to the "darkroom" view. Either select a photo and click on darkroom, or just double-click. After that, well, there are a lot of options to explore, haha. There's quite a few YouTube tutorials that are a lot better at explaining the interface than a text description here would be.

Good luck and have fun!
great hn thread, thanks.
I like the stealth treatment you apply to the loo to reduce edges. Without wishing to imply my own bathroom needs a clean this would actually be handy in people's homes too (even though generally people are less wayward than they are in public loos)
So have we all been saying it with the wrong emphasis?

Sequelite vs Sequel-lite

How does creator pronounce it in podcast?
That song at the end is actually really good (musically speaking - don't understand Chinese). But ideologically incorrect, therefore banned.

What a grand social experiment they're running. Conformism at any cost, only the centrally planned narrative is allowed. Will this go differently than that other failed experiment that also had a "Communist" label on it? Probably not. But there's so much economic inertia there, most of us probably won't live long enough to see the outcome.
Life in the FOBs in Afghanistan was a time capsule of red-blooded ‘Merica, like hanging out between scenes of a 90s action movie. The gym was 24 hours, everybody was huge, and the music was hardcore 80/90s. Sort of like my high school football team. There were guns in every social situation, which was shocking at first until you realized that it meant that this was the first place on earth where you had nothing to fear from strangers. Everybody knew everything about the people around them. If you had something you were insecure about, you’d get tortured about it until you weren’t. I never fit in, but these people were willing to die for me, and I found ways to earn respect. It was basically the neighborhood I grew up in, or maybe a sports team, or maybe a prison. It didn’t really matter. Food was simple, served every 6 hours on a tray line, and you got everything you needed without thinking about it. On the bigger FOBs, the jet engines ran constantly in idle, and the fighter pilots pretty much did WTF they wanted. There were no cell phones nor internet in most places, which was tremendously liberating. I made the most of every moment there. There was always something important to do, and not much in the way. Most of the time I didn’t worry about my job. We worked 12 hour days, 7 days a week, everybody together in one place. You’re never alone on a deliverable; it’s everybody’s responsibility, everybody’s credit, and everybody’s lives on the line.

It felt like focus. I came back to chaos. Jobs where you have no idea what to do or why, but huge pressure to make your boss happy, just some random person that you don’t really know anything about, but they have the power to ruin your career, and you’re all on your own. Shopping. Cooking. Cleaning. Family. Facebook. Cell phones. Internet dating. Interviews. Leases. License. Registration. Insurance. Doctors. Lawyers. Bills. Taxes. Spam. Scams. Outrage politics. These things are not optional. It’s your entire life consumed by other people’s rackets. It all existed before, but every year away, it seems like it’s been put on overdrive when I get back. People have a tendency to infantilize vets by claiming we’re the victims of PTSD or something, but no, seriously, there are some things that really are getting worse in normal American life, and especially politics of the homefront military. Maybe it’s to be expected; a lot of us went forward to get away from that.
The UI takes a long time to get used to. The concept of film rolls is a little weird and knowing which functionality is available in what context is also often not very intuitive.
I'm not sure that is universal. I can lose myself in mechanical rote work, or lose myself in technical research, flow doesn't necessarily stop on a switch of focus if the end goal remains in sight.
A credit card imprinting machine [1], and paper records of inventory change that can be uploaded afterwards.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wutgAlNHk

A few years ago, during a power outage, a stores clerk actually used one of these for/on me. I was pretty shocked ;)
Thanks -- good distillation of Taleb.
One possible use case is you run a CLI monitor app (stock, website traffic, etc.) and you need simple plots in it .
In case of Equifax, for example, they're in a quasi-cartel with only two competitors.

It's quasi-monopolistic. It has the same problems : nobody gives a flying furry about actual performance.
TheOtherHobbes said "only", as in "to the exclusion of all other concerns". Where's the pejorative?
A method to transition people from related fields would be the most beneficial. Taking someone with a background in systems administration or programming and nailing on the security skillset would be more effective than taking someone who knows all security concepts and thats it.

The best way for a practitioner to personally capitalize depends on their background. For instance, someone with infrastructure support experience may make an excellent incident responder. Someone who deeply understands how systems would could be a talented pentester.

Edit:
From a compensation perspective the solution is to take your growing experience to the next company willing to pay for it.
TPM modules are not £3. They're $50 or more now. Many people use older hardware without TPM support, and many people don't know what TPMs are and how to add them. Entire enterprises of hardware would have to be upgraded. It's a ploy to create more sales for hardware manufacturers.
Well, that's the scariest thing I've read all week. Just reading your level of stress between the lines here gives me the chills. Why is it so hard to convince them to take security seriously? Especially with hospitals, this should be a national security issue. The consequences are right in everyone's face now. In my case, an attack might be expensive, even dire, but no one would die. I know why I have a hard time pushing security reviews, they're costly and intensive and not sexy for management or investors. But things like this need to make it clear to the c-suite how quickly the wheels can come off.
The strength of visual programming is not in visualising code, but rather, visualising programs.

At a small scale, textual code can be very concise, expressive, compact, efficient and fast to write. But at a large scale, writing thousands of lines of code in text files in folders makes it very difficult to understand how the pieces of a program connect. To overcome this, we rely on file naming conventions, frameworks or writing documentation to understand how the various parts of text relate to each other.

Programming with nodes and wires is a way of visualising those relationships by creating a map of the program. Similar to maps of the real world, those maps may be complex and not easy to understand. But those maps show that there is complexity. what we can learn from maps of the real world? Well: zoom level matters. When we want to understand the world, we look at countries. When we want to get to the next city, we look at the road level.

In my opinion, visual programming environments are transparent and honest about the underlying complexity of a program. Contrast this with countless folders full of files filled with thousands of lines of code.

Such repositories of code can be very difficult to navigate and get around. Yes, frameworks and conventions can help to understand already learned organisational systems (example from the real world: “I learned to navigate American cities designed on a grid of streets, but I get lost in Europe“).

If we compare textual coding to visual programming, we should not only focus on the expression of low level logic and primitives, but also on the organisational aspect of programming. I think there is still a lot of potential for both textual coding and visual programming tools to create better wayfinding systems.
> Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.

Unfortunately, this appears to mean that employees have to be available 24/7 for work for the rest of their lives. There is a way that employees can be freed of this by means of manumission [0], but this generally requires that they have a lot of money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission
I think this is missing the point slightly.

The vaccine/viral infection -> exercise -> myocarditis link is a well known (to the medical community) link in other vaccines/viruses, including flu.

Therefore the "burden of proof" should not be to show that there is a link here too, but to show that there isn't despite it being a common thing in so many other viruses.

Therefore, the fact that people are not given advice not to exercise heavily following vaccination, especially in professions where daily heavy exercise is the norm like in the military, is causing unnecessary morbidity.

To come and say "yeah but it's still small" is not "putting things in perspective", since this is morbidity that is likely entirely preventable and unnecessary.
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>You seem to think I have some political motive

I'm not really sure what your motive for trying to police my language was. All I know is that the reasons you have given me all seem rather unlikely.
You need a distinct pre-mortem where everybody brings a list of the ways a project could fail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem
The more Bezos opens his mouth, the more he sounds like he wants to be neo robber baron.