skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been interesting watching this unfold, some good videos around it:

Most recent report from engineer mentioned in article to oversight committee: https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/40229?view_id=... (Item 8, around 2 hours in)

New Project Aims To Reinforce, Level Out Millennium Tower - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_q7M35wRAc

What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9O9yJoeZY

SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch in Four Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiA5ffnu3c8

Despite Warnings, Repairs on San Francisco’s Millennium Tower Caused Additional Sinking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpMCwR4JzPA
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I assume you're young, and this is the right attitude if so. Not that it becomes "wrong" as you age, but many people cannot maintain it, through a combination of burnout, less energy, just becoming jaded, or having other interests and priorities.

I'm past middle age and hard work is no longer its own reward for me. Forget a 4-day workweek -- I work about 4 hours a day. Any more than that and it's just going through the motions, there's no additional productivity. I will still occasionally get really into something and find myself still engaged after many hours, but it's rare these days whereas it used to be common. However I do not think I would have liked this as a 25-year-old. At that age I was excited, still learning, and full of energy. A 4 hour workday would have felt like I was just getting started.
There are 1) known reasons for known catastrophes, so we can protect against them, 2) unknown reasons for known catastrophes, so we need to make a guess, and 3) unknown reasons for unknown catastrophes, which are not happened yet, including state sponsored attack on a nuclear plant. We cannot be prepared for unknown unknowns, so we need to plan for the worst case scenario. The worst-case scenario for nuclear plant is continent scale Red Forest (about 1M Chornobyl's).

Do you know how to reduce continent scale threat to just the size of a nation or a town?

Nuclear fusion or LENR can do that, because of small amount of radioactive materials and no positive coefficient by design, but how you can do that for massive fission?
Because foreigners don't want pieces of green cotton for their goods, they want things.

If interest rates are low, money is cheap for Americans and they can buy real things with something that is worth less (not worthless) that it was. Its worth less because Americans didnt have to produce to make that dollar.

On top of that, since the dollar is the reserve currency, all the price inflation is effectively diluted among all countries.

So America gets to print its budget deficit and not even suffer as great an inflation. But the price inflation pressure is there, it must be there.

Its what the French called “America’s exorbitant privilege”

As to the oil shock, of course that affected prices. But the embargo only lasted 6 months, didn't cover Europe and oil is fungible (ie Americans can buy Norwegian oil destined to Ireland at a small premium and the Irish buy oil from the Arabs [1])

[1] this is an illustrative example. I don't know or care where the Irish buy oil
hah! when I worked at a place that had free food I would be good until about 3pm, when I'd gorge on terrible snacks because I'd used up all my willpower coding during the day
While it was harder than it should have been to reach them. The one support interaction I’ve ever needed to have with them (domain name change went badly with master password email account re-verification before I added a secondary email) was amazing. They had a thorough security checking, identification confirmation process that would make it more difficult for social engineering, they were able to fix up the email over the course of a 45 minute phone call (I did mention it was thorough)
The tricky part is how to identify what is an unjust law. If each individual is free to make that decision and not bound, that is the absence of a state, that is called anarchy. The consequence is not freedom, because those who have power will rule anyway. Therefore in a democracy the power to determine what is just is vested in the legislator and the power to apply those laws is vested in a government that responds to the parliament that put it in place and the power to oversee the application of laws lies with independent courts, the judges of which have nothing to fear and nothing to gain in adjudicating a case. Don't like that system? That's calling for a revolution. To me, that's the wrong path. I prefer to live with the bad decisions or compromises a government makes instead of fearing the gangs and guns in my neighbourhood.
This comment seems in earnest. So I will assume, as a non native English speaker, you have probably heard the expression "that I feel like a slave at work".

This is not what is meant by slave in this context. It is not a feeling. Modern slavery is a fact [0]. Xinjiang concentration camps count as modern slavery. Of course, China is not the only country concerned. But it does not mean that we should not point it out in China.

There are some comments that this should be described as something else - perhaps forced labor. Uyghurs in Xinjiang are deprived not only of their labor rights but also every other right from reproductive to cultural and everything in between.

Slaves essentially have no rights. Uyghurs essentially have no rights. So no, forced labor is not the right term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
Having been involved in the design and specifications of a number of hardware products over the years, my experience has been different.

You cannot predict all the possible future requirements of a product, the best you can do is make a reasonable effort. In this case the vendors likely could do some kind of patch/update to support .?, but surely there are a large number of other little things that have changed or been added over the years, not just .?. So, where does that slippery slope end? How many new features, and related regression testing should be put into older devices? Does the hardware vendor have a kind of ethical responsibility to continue to update it until it just absolutely cannot be carried along any longer?

In hardware designs there are always a lot of hard trade offs made to keep the bill of materials as low as reasonably possible. As new components become available new capabilities for the devices become possible, and at some point you need to focus your primary R&D efforts on the newer stuff just for efficiency sake.

My personal experience is that very few mainstream devices are really built with some kind of planned obsolescence. Instead, devices that become unsupported and unable to get current software updates are usually just victims of the basic drivers of modern business (profit, growth, etc.). Sure there are cases where the hardware vendor WANTS devices to expire early and force users to buy new ones, but when you look at the app store revenues of Apple or Google, I don't think they're sweating hardware revenue to the point they are implementing some form of planned obsolescence. They might even prefer that older devices were more cost effective to support in order to reduce the potential for churn to the alternate platform/ecosystem.
I didn't even notice a tattooed girl
If you use these reactors, you have no other reason to produce weapons grade uranium. That's the only thing that sticks out to me.
And I learned something today https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/work_programs.j...
> In the "real world", it's better to disappear a few ten thousand non-US citizens than it is to have a visible competing hegemony. The only countries to survive that pressure (China, DPRK) have only done so because of nuclear armaments which the US (the only country to nuke a city, let alone two) opposes.

From what I've heard about China, it's not all roses there either. It's still better to disappear several thousand non-china citizens (or even some most prominent china citizens) than to admit non-ideality of rulers. It also meshes exactly with real-life communist-led acts I've heard from my parents (I'm several years too young to remember that). Yeah, some people think they had better living then than now and they are missing the times when everything was given to them (but they are not missing the times which came after, where you didn't have anything because the system ran out of "others' people money to give out"). The worst thing is - my country slowly descends back to that state of living, with wide handouts, but money is already starting to run out. They think they still live under capitalism, but it's only in name.
Not only that, but he pointed out research that looked at communes in the US in the 18th century. The "survival" rate of such communes decades on was starkly different between those that were based on religion and those that weren't. The latter had a very low survival rate.
> the worst the world becomes as a result

I believe the world becomes even worse when people are unable to speak candidly, frankly, and in their own way. Being able to extract and recognize the meaning behind someone's words, in spite of any perceived flaw in word choice or phrasing, is one of the hallmarks of a mature and intelligent individual.

This belief that controlling how people speak will somehow make the world a better place seems somewhat quixotic.
The mRNA and viral vector vaccines are great at their targets. The targets have changed, but our vaccines haven’t.

If we end up with measles2 and rubella2, I wouldn’t be surprised if my measles1 and rubella1 vaccines weren’t effective.
This was discussed on the http203 podcast: https://youtu.be/cGyLHxn16pE
I use an antenna + HDHomeRun device on my network, then the Channels app on an Apple TV. This works much better and faster than relying on the TV's native tuner, remote, and channel-switching capabilities.

https://www.silicondust.com

https://getchannels.com
pretty cool idea - i am thinking you could basically use these on a blog or something instead of creating a full ecommerce site
I love half price books stores..I have a kindle stash but that feeling of browsing in a bookstore cannot compare. You can’t read comics and graphic novels digitally. They also carry records and first editions. I don’t care much about first editions but I want to support them in small ways. I gift books to my friends children for Xmas and New Years.
What, exactly, is the purpose of car keys if you're going to leave them in the car?
Pumped hydro can be built off rivers. The opportunities for that are vast.
As a LastPass user, I'm getting a bit nervous. I've looked through various other threads on suggestions, but, since it is inevitable - what do people recommend and why? I'd prefer only answers from people that have been using their solution for at least a couple of years, and even better, people that have been using theirs for even longer and through multiple iterations of "weird things happened to password manager X" cycles :)
When I migrated from Lastpass to Bitwarden, I was able to import the Lastpass export without any transformation needed, if I recall correctly.
That’s why I think that Microsoft could make it a painful experience but in general, both products do describe surfaces. The hardware is a physical surface and Clover has a virtual surface.
Always off, unless there is a reason to turn it on.
isn't Safari also mostly independent and popular?
My job would be much simpler if I could deploy generic MPC; all I would have to do is maintain a library and maybe a compiler, without having to design and implement an entirely new protocol every time someone came along with some new feature or use-case. The engineering effort of productionizing a generic protocol is a one-time cost and my coworkers and I could do that work relatively quickly. On the other hand, special-purpose protocols are typically difficult to modify, we are have to do our security proofs over and over whenever we roll out anything new, and we must go through the engineering effort over and over.

Engineering effort is not what holds back the deployment of generic MPC protocols. Those protocols are just too expensive to run in the majority of real-world MPC applications. Even special-purpose protocols are sometimes too resource-intensive to be deployed. I do not see that situation changing without a radically different approach to generic protocols. I also do not understand what is so uniquely exciting about deploying a generic ZKP or MPC protocol. If it works in a giving setting and no special-purpose construction could be used, great, but it is not some kind of badge of honor.

As for Zerocash, you had originally said that blockchains are where we can finding the largest deployments of non-trivial ZKPs, which is why I pointed out that Zerocash and its followup work do not really involve "blockchains" beyond a particular instantiation of a ledger. If the construction can be implemented without any blockchain at all -- which the authors of the original paper took the time to point out -- then I do not see how any of the research on ZKPs motivated by Zerocash and its followup work supports your claim at all. You are saying that Zerocash is actually ecash, which kind of makes my point for me: we are not actually talking about something in the "blockchain space."

(Also, I have a somewhat controversial view that NIZKs and signatures are not actually "zero knowledge," since the verifier obviously cannot compute a NIZK or signature without receiving a message from the prover/signer and thus gains knowledge when it does receive those strings. Not that it matters in any way for this conversation, since the value of innovation in NIZKs or ZKSNARKs is not in doubt, but I did want to mention that signatures are a poor example of real-world deployments of ZKPs.)
Alexander was Great at murder.
I actually built my first mechanical keyboard hand wired, it helped understand the basics of how it all worked.

I don't remember if it was this exact guide, but I'm pretty sure I was following Matt3o's guide when I did it: https://matt3o.com/hand-wiring-a-custom-keyboard/

edit: it may have actually been this one: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6050&start=
I live in another city, but there has been significant changes in certain types of crime patterns. It’s not “organized” crime in The Godfather or gang sense, but it’s organized loosely on the internet and would be criminals basically have access to “best practices” that were only available in a truly organized crime org in the past.

Nothing like growing up in 80s NYC, but property crime in my city is way up, and police either aren’t taking reports or people don’t bother. The little league I’m on the board had the wall of a storage shed cut open and turf equipment stolen. The police took a report and the video and filed it away.

Shady people know what the police will arrest for, and what the DA will prosecute; they operate in the fringes. Basically if it’s a burglary at a house or assault the police respond and prosecute. Other thefts don’t even warrant a report unless there is an insurance angle. In general, the stupid crime done by drug addicts is basically not on the radar.

10 years ago, guys robbing sheds and plundering the little league would have prompted a mini-task force response. Today, the paperwork to book the guy would last longer that his time in custody.
Play 5s have an aux in on the back, and if you have your music in spotify on your PC you can use the sonos speakers/groups as an output from the desktop app (and maybe with other services too, i just use spotify so i know this one)
> Parking clouds people’s minds, shifting analytic faculties to a lower level. Some strongly support market prices — except for parking. Some strongly oppose subsidies — except for parking.

I wonder if you could replace this with: "some people strongly support X - except in circumstances where it negatively affects them personally".
Love this! Current user of Notion (structured planning + sharing), Bear (small on the go notes (mobile mainly), Roam (work + research notes), and Noteshelf (any written notes + sketches). Will be interesting to see if this can replace some of these. I'll write feedback here if I have any. :)
KeePass and pass use fully open database formats. (I like MacPass, KeePassHTTP Connector, and Keepassium.) Enpass uses a well-documented database format based on SQLCipher/SQLite (albeit not fully open, you have to piece it together from the white paper and forum posts). They are all local-first, so you own your password information.

I have no reason to believe BitWarden would try to hold my passwords hostage. But I prefer the solution where they can't.
A perplexing tale about Bob Duggan, the richest Scientologist in the world
> Because Hue is a degree

A bit nitpicky but: Hue is an angle, degree is it's unit.

Like the width of a football field is a length, meter is it's unit.

Otherwise, good point!
I'm generally reluctant to add dependencies on third-party services such as Ably in the core application, because that would add another barrier to providing an on-prem deployment option, or even allowing a customer to deploy on their own AWS infrastructure instead of ours. I'm actually contemplating this decision right now for a new product.
https://github.com/abhinavs/blockr is a CLI tool to block websites that distract you. I originally wrote it to block youtube from my 5 year old daughter's laptop and since then, I have been also using it personally (I'm a Twitter addict.)

I have built a Jekyll blog theme too with very small CSS footprint - https://github.com/abhinavs/moonwalk
This is not my area and I read the press release but not the paper -- but I cannot help noticing that they mention a sensitivity/recall number (>90%) but not a specificity or precision number.
Even if you're not trying to be cynical or skeptical about this, when there are this few true positive examples available, how can one plausibly do a good job calibrating such a system?
I would have preferred a straightforward answer instead.

It's not obvious to me from those articles how what I said is inaccurate.
How about offering a good search engine? A good e-mail service? A good product. That never existed?

It seems we explain all things in terms of wars among browsers when actually when Chrome came out (at first, when no market share) it was really fast and lean and they are well-known by their search engine.

The problems I have with Google are more sort of privacy stuff. But they also have their own merits. I myself am not using Chrome anymore based on privacy concerns.
None of this is flamebait.

It's completely correct to say that modern software development has evolved into clown cars and that big infrastructure projects are run to far higher standards.

Also, why can't I downvote your comment?
Our team is all default ON, but nobody is shy about turning it off if they need to do something that might be distracting or just don't want to be on video for any reason. It's a lot easier to visually signal agreement / disagreement in conversations that way without having to use your voice.

I'm always default ON when meeting with people outside our company as well. if anything because I'm used to using body language in conversations and it seems to move things along more naturally than it would with a phone-style meeting.
Why give a conference talk (or, why give a Postgres talk)
Yes, Lagrange points exist for any two bodies in orbit so long as:

- The ratio of masses between the two bodies is sufficiently large.

- The mass of objects orbiting at or near the Lagrange points is sufficiently small.

There are Lagrange points in the Earth-Sun system (JWST will orbit near L2), the Earth-Moon system (the "L4 Society" is named for one of these, proposed as the location for permanent habitable space colonies), and the other planets of the solar system and the Sun.

For bodies of sufficiently similar masses, the Lagrange points aren't well defined, as with Pluto and its comparatively giant moon / sister-dwarf-planet Charon.

And there are limits to the mass of an object which can be orbited at a Lagrange point. It's not possible, for example for there to be a "twin Earth" orbiting opposite the Sun from Earth, at the L3 point, as the mass of that object would destabilise the entire Earth-Sun-Twin system.

Lower mass of the secondary system would move Lagrange points closer to that body, higher masses would place Lagrange points at a greater distance from the secondary (lower-mass) body in an orbital pair.

I'm not sure what the situation is for highly complex orbital systems as with Jupiter and Saturn in which there are many moons which might peturb orbits near other planet-moon Lagrange points, though I suspect that these would still be reasonably well-defined for some of the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

For a good visual explainer, see: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Gu4vA2ztgGM
The older (and busier) I get, the more I'm willing to put up with a walled garden that just works.

Apple is not (always) a good actor; they've been caught intentionally degrading the performance of older hardware, in order to increase sales of new hardware. But, they seem very keen on maintaining the privacy and safety of their users, which is true of essentially no other tech company on the planet.

I'm still not all-in on the Apple ecosystem, but stuff like this always makes me pause.
I can't help but think that many of our economic, social, and environmental issues stem from a culture of cars. Cars push out urban sprawl weakening economies of scale, cars take up a massive amount of expensive real-estate (roads and parking), cars produce a tremendous amount of pollution in addition the environmental impacts of the previous two points.

At least in the US, I do not see a path forwards tho. The houses have been built and the people live where they live.
Davis has the best non tesla charger between Sacramento and the bay area. Leave some parking spaces for that.
Smalltalk has the unrivaled ability to explore and change your environment graphically, and for the changes to persist. Only the web with the developer console comes close, and the changes aren't persistent.

Binary image-based development with serialisation, now we aren't all trying to make exes, should be more of a thing.
But that would just increase the number of issues reported over time. It can't scale. When should they stop supporting these devices? If their telemetry shows 1 user on an iPad from 5 years ago, does that mean they need to support it? What about 1 user on an iPad from 50 years ago? Again, where does it end? You shouldn't be running an out of date browser at all, that's a major security risk.
This company is so rotten. Just look at their recent track record showing pure user hostility. Why is anyone still using them?
First paragraph: I feel exactly the same way, but also definitely feel and sympathize with the article's topic sometimes. I don't think the two ideas are as mutually exclusive as they seem.

Second paragraph: I think you're letting the world's political bullshit get you a little reactive. Those words are championed more often explicitly by the right than the left, and some media outlets unreasonably demonize some right wing things, but those are two separate concepts. Those words are, by definition, positive words in a neutral context.
It says results were issued / ready, not that he received it.

And given they were ready at 8pm it’s quite possible that the guy that makes Djokovics mail account was long gone. It may even have landed in the Spam folder if he is using Gmail (happened to me once).
If only they had an empty box it would get occupied almost instantly!
More info: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43832/mystery-surround...
I totally relate to "as cost goes up the default options become less attractive". I don't mind the typical options being a bit high (when did 20% become the low end??) but I'll opt out and put in my own amount when the bill is above say $20.