skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human eyes are better than cameras at a lot of things - that's one of the main problems with self-driving cars. We can see at 240fps, see light polarization, we have different "pixel wells" for low- and high-luminance environments, etc. Even the latest HDTV color system omits a lot of colors (electric greens) people can see.
By including the audio file, which only includes the readable text, one can avoid the problem of screen readers trying to read ASCII art, decorative elements, etc.

Some news websites, for example Bloomberg, have been including audio files for years. Wikipedia also offers audio files created with TTS.
Counter-Theses on Sleep
He said in the very sentence you cite that he said so jokingly.

Regardless, I read a few books about the fall of the Republic a couple of years ago, all of which were written pre-Trump, and I did indeed find the resemblance eerie.
They are both very different kinds of restructures.

Alphabet is a pure holding company. It doesn't have many employees directly working for it (other than top executives, some finance people and other minor overhead). And different Alphabet companies operate fully independently with next to zero sharing of employees, resources, money or tech. When people in these threads say Google, they specifically mean the company which makes up most of Alphabet and works on search, ads etc., not Calico or DeepMind.

Meta on the other hand is a rebrand of Facebook (the company). There is no holding structure. If you were a Facebook employee, you now work for Meta. Employees at Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, shared infra teams, and other minor projects all work for Meta as well. Facebook now refers to just the app, nothing else. The different brands are simply products that the company works on, not legal entities in themselves.
From reading the synopsis of the plot (I've seen Pi several times, but never heard of Tetsuo: the Iron Man before), what does Tetsuo: the Iron Man have to do with Pi? The story at least shows no obvious connection.
Thank you for the link!

Dumb shill, but I have a Twitter account to collect instances of tech companies doing shady stuff. It's called "Programmers Against Humanity" (@software_crimes), and I would love if people could send me more. I want to bring awareness to how tech companies harm us.
Tomorrow is our "Armageddon Tabletop Exercise", which is bringing up our business from a complete datacenter failure. I don't envy the blue teams doing it for real.
I see what you’re saying, and that’s an interesting argument. But a counterpoint:

> On the iPhone 13 series, there’s a few complex behaviours to consider: First off, the iPhone 13 Pro and its LTPO panel noticeable decreases the minimum baseline power consumption of the phone by around a massive 100mW… While 100mW doesn’t sound much, when using the phones at lower screen brightness, this can represent a large percentage of the overall device power consumption, and vastly increase battery life for the new iPhone 13 Pro models.

> Comparing the 13 to the 13 Pro, the phones have quite different curves – while the 13 Pro uses less power to display full white up until 140 nits, the regular 13 becomes more efficient afterwards. We’re also seeing different curve shapes, meaning the phones are driven differently in regards to their PWM and emitter voltages.

The Pro phones are more battery efficient than the regular ones, and probably use the extra space gained with a slightly smaller battery for some other featureful hardware (cameras?).

The trade offs made seem to be reasonable for a Pro that’s between the regular and the Pro Max. It doesn’t seem to me like just a decoy.
Cases are so ugly and make the device feel cheap though. Why get this amazing precision engineered device and cover it with a chonky plastic case that makes the phone look like an 80s movie artists vision of the future?
I don't care about a stylus but I want a headphone socket.
yes, they do fuse different lenses together on pixels
Based upon the title I first imagined this might be about visualization, e.g. before a sports performance.

This article describes something more profound than just "rehersals" as a single method, IMHO.
Sounds like a meme, or perhaps a compliment to your eye or a social media page? There’s a photographic style setting they can use if they prefer a less neutral look on their phones.
Well, the thing is that the audience has also machine guns and they have not just figured out yet what they will really do when the loosing boxer really takes his machine gun out.
Ahh! Beat me to it! I really want an answer, so I can inform my blue team.

Bill Demirkapi seems pretty competent, and they do have an entry on Linkedin that is associated with Zoom security. Who knows how reliable of a source that is, however.
While technically true, I never mind such things.

Those cabbies are working-class people usually. They often have families, and need the extra money. All they get is usually a few extra dollars; which means a lot to them, but very little to us middle-class people, who would suffer no repercussions financially.

One could see the running meter as a form of a 'tip' or 'donation' - not everything has to be seen in the context of "being taken advantage of", which makes it very hard to live.

This is very different from surprise fees from banks and institutions, for which I can see how a person might feel taken advantage of.
Interesting point. Speculation that rootkitting all of your employees made the problem worse:

https://twitter.com/BillDemirkapi/status/1506117152461496323
That seems to be discussing the period shortly after this book. Duncan's book is more about the Sulla and Marius generations, and ends when Caesar is still a small player. Syme's book seems to be about the rise of Augustus.
>Do you dislike C syntax?

Kinds of, yes. And the dollar sign is especially programatic for me as I read lots of financial reports and statements. Part of the reason I dont like Perl as well.
Because the whole point of the backronym is and always has always been to sound cool. Microsoft was excluded from FAANG for no other reason than it couldn't fit and still make the acronym cool. It's the same reason the acronym has not been FAAAN; FAANG is obviously cooler. As soon as Facebook became Meta, that opened up all kinds of new acronyms and now Microsoft is in and Netflix is out, because MAGMA is the new hotness.
It is just cowardice and fear mongering.

By this behavior you only encourage him to use this option.
Is pinning dependencies is more secure than not pinning?
Facts vs. Feelings
Unfortunately that seems very likely. Though I have vague hope for a "twist" wherein the invasion energizes Ukraine and leads them to have a new "slavic cultural bloom". If that happened and they rid themselves of the excessive corruption and their economy grew with it there could then be a spillover effect back to Russia.
Pretty surreal to see a clone of my product for sale on here

My product: https://feedbacklane.com

The clone: https://zeroacquire.com/simple-form/

I’m all for getting inspired by ideas, but such close copies feels wrong
Not exactly the same, I know, but it's worth keeping in the common memory the fact that battery-swapping EVs have been around for a very long time.

See this[1]. Quote:

" the excessive noise of these vehicles annoyed residents of some of the wealthier areas of the town and so the company ordered 4 battery-powered buses, which entered service in June 1909; ... [buildings] held charging equipment, so that during the day buses could swiftly exchange spent batteries for ones that were fully charged, a change-over which took about ten minutes. "

[1] https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1...
I didn't know I was doing literate programming when I started using Observable. It's changed the way I code in a huge way. The code isn't tucked away, so it's like repos in VS Code are hidden caverns, and Observable collections are canyons in the light of the Sun. They can remain private, of course, but the barriers to sharing are negligible compared to the common Git-centered workflows.

Codesandbox and Google Colab come close but they still feel like tanks. I can code something up on my phone with Observable while waiting in line at the DMV...
A lot of people assume the worst about computational photography; there were stories about Samsung phones having an "unbelievably" good Moon photography mode, where everyone assumed it was just pasting in a photo of the Moon instead of just knowing not to overexpose it.
I remember pre-2006. I was in my mid-30s by then. I don’t recall much open animosity between Republicans and Democrats. Certainly nothing like today. There was a lot of coming together post 9/11. I do think social media was the main instigator of the country falling into open tribalism.
Additionally, paying a price of 100 means the payer does not _really_ care about the price, they just say "here's an expensive item that I totally can afford to buy, and don't care how much does it cost, let's just make it an arbitrary 100". Paying 95, however, means "I know _exactly_ how much it costs, and I am willing to spend my attention on haggling for the extra 5 (even if it's done by a servant, it still reflects on the owner), which means 5 is a substantial enough sum for me to care, which means I'm not as rich as I pretend to be".
Meson WrapDB Packages
One example is that cameras don't know what time of day it is (or rather, they could know but often choose not to care) and so auto-exposure/auto-white balance try to turn everything into noon daytime. So if you wanted your picture to look like the actual color cast and brightness you're seeing, it's up to you to remember what it looked like.

Of course, phones aren't necessarily good at this either.
https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh
Literally everyone I know with a Pro owns the regular-sized Pro.

The $100 is irrelevant to the target market of the Pro line, it's basically pocket change. You buy the phone that's most comfortable for your hand because that matters way more than the $100.
This is the concept of Byzantine faults
A New Tool for Finding Dark-Matter Digs-Up Nothing
Honestly: fuck corporate security and leadership who kept pushing for spying on their workers with increasingly intrusive tools. I can’t remember how many times I argued with IT that MITMing SSL was not ok (there are some tools.. crowdstrike maybe? That do this). They made their bed, now they gotta sleep in it.
The Departed was a licensed remake. Its producers bought and paid for the rights to remake the original.
Medical School Accreditation Body Solicits DEI Initiatives
curious - would you mind listing some of those useful ones in the "old Power Toys"?
Hmm, I am sure the pricing is also mil-spec. I have always liked the look of the Astro Pi[1] case, I have to admit, even if it's a big chunk.

1: https://www.esa.int/Education/AstroPI/What_is_an_Astro_Pi
What actually matters is being able to effectively solve problems related to these questions when they arise. Doing the investigation. Who cares if you know these trivialities off the top of your head?
And this explains how the LAPSUS hacker group was able to breach Microsoft, NVIDIA, and countless others. Apparently, they have been inside of OKTA systems for nearly 2 months now.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/microsoft_lapsus_brea...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/lapsus-hacking-group-extortion-n...

[3] https://analyticsindiamag.com/lapsus-hack-leaves-nvidia-in-a...
No one wants to carry around a 5000 mAh brick everywhere they go.
Long, long, long live Emacs after 39 years
I would think you would only need a standard size battery, and have vehicles capable of holding as many standard-sized batteries as necessary for their weight/performance. So a compact car would have 1 C-sized battery (joke), and a F150 would have 5, for example.
Can you say more about what "bringing up" from complete failure entails? Do you have an HA backup DC that you fail over to or something else?
With all those recent news of compromises done by Lapsus$, i really wonder what they're doing "differently" to the rest - do they have an especially large arsenal of exploits or is everything compromised anyways and one just doesn't read about it in the public because no one knows...
You've raised some good points in your comments in this thread.

Can you please leave out the insults and adversarial style?

We try for respectful and polite conversation here, even when we disagree on something. That way we can learn from each other.

From the site guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks, and I look forward to reading more of your insights!
I got the impression that Windows used to make APIs so that others could use the same UI elements as the OS in their programs. Have they stopped doing that?
Seems a bit premature to assume this was the vector used for those other breaches.
Where'd the name Myricom/Myrinet come from? "Infiniband" is a pretty cool name.
Great suggestion. Changed above. Thanks!
We've been fairly open about how Google Cloud Networking works -- https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/dalton

There's also some more recent coverage on IPUs that I don't have a handy link to.
"... would..."

It sounds as though the author has not actually asked vision-impaired users.

And of course audio is not only for vision-impaired users.

I can play audio directly from a webpage at 5-10x speed easily, but I use the command line programs like ffmpeg/mplayer/mpv/vlc, not a browser like Chrome.

Assuming a Google employee's belief reflects what all web users actually prefer (doubtful!), websites could offer a variety of audio with the same TTS voices that screen readers use.
This is the main reason to use modern methodolgies such as (pick only one):

- css BEM with class only selectors

- css modules

- functional librairies (like tailwindcss)

with those you first write your html, then "apply" css.
Yeah that sounds downright dangerous.

In Southampton it was more like "you can only park here" or "you can't scoot in the public parks" or "this is a hospital zone so you're limited to half speed". That said, it was only a pilot, and I can see the exact same thing happening down the line.
> Also, why does the tech community have an obsession with Rome?

This question comes across as a bit sneering (more so one of its answers), but I'll say general intellectualism. This is what the orange site is about after all.

See a defence of the classics here: https://acoup.blog/2021/09/10/meet-a-historian-michael-taylo... - The blog ACOUP is probably better than the submission, so I'll agree with your first point.

You could make a case for Chinese history being equally rich, if not more. But note that the language and cultural barrier would be greater for most people on this site. Its relevance for the shaping of the "Western" world would be less relevant. The amount of study material and analysis in the English language would be less. But if there were decent enough articles on it, it would result in a flood of submissions to this site.
The latter. Businesses love to outsource and with technology there are just so many leaky pipes everywhere built by whoever could build them cheapest.
Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the US Empire Collapse as China's Power Grows
Your story both makes me want to laugh and cry because I've seen this pattern so many times.

These days when I do architecture interviews, I always make sure the problem can be solved distributed or monolithic and when they do distributed, I asked them why and to explain the trade-offs. If they do monolithic, I ask them why not distributed. Etc. For senior engineers, it's such a good indicator of whether or not they've truly worked in distributed systems and understand the human side of the problem.

The big O stuff is great, but the human and organizational costs are easily as important to assess as the computational and memory costs.
Using templates I once implemented logic for dealing with SI units[1]. I also included angles, which is a bit odd but useful in practice.

It is really nice to have a type system that checks your formulas. Saved me a couple of times.

[1] https://gitlab.com/roeles/zen/-/blob/master
Pretty sure Microsoft uses Azure Active Directory for SSO, not a direct competitor (source: used to work there).
Maybe a stupid question but it seems very foolish to target fedramp companies? I mean why would this not attract the attention of some very effective 3 letter agencies? Granted it’s not technically supply chain, but the recent fed retaliation to darkside, etc. comes to mind.I just feel it’s phenomenally hubristic to brag on social media about penetrating fed ramp certified federal contractors…they are highly likely to be interacting with top secret level info.
Frink: A Units-Aware Programming Language
It would be confusing to me if Microsoft were utilising Okta themselves. Their own Azure offerings provide everything Okta does (and usually bundled into something you're already buying).
> don't assume you need a NoSQL solution

Likewise, people who only know relational DBs shouldn't assume they need an SQL solution. It's remarkably rare that you encounter engineers with real thoughtful experience with both and they have the experience to know which tool to pick up for different problems.
On the one hand, flat earth doesn't suggest killing people. But on the other hand, you don't want them in very many roles in society.
Five seconds to get up to highway speeds isn't outrageous in many parts of the country where there are short on ramps and fast moving traffic.

And that's in ideal conditions - real world could easily have multiple passengers and a full load of luggage/cargo that'll slow things down.

Likewise with going 120mph - highway speeds are anything from 60 to 85mph. Most vehicles aren't at 100% engine load when cruising on the highway.
The major link in the chain that you're missing here is the breakdown in the elaborate series of checks-and-balances that underpinned the Roman Republic. For most of the Republic, the army consisted of a citizen militia commanded by military leaders whose terms measured months at most, not years. Even if they possessed "extraordinary leadership and military command talents," generals never spent years in the field with their soldiers. As Rome got bigger and wars became further-flung, you begin to see people in charge of armies for much longer which allowed them to build up the ironclad loyalty required to lead an army against Rome. Scipio Africanus is an early example, but this sort of thing became much, much more common in the late Republic.
Who said you need to shut down usage of the whole hospital? Just usage of those specific machines.
If you are operating from a jurisdiction that's already under heavy sanctions or severed diplomatic relations and extradition is unlikely, the laws of another country don't really matter.
https://archive.ph/6tl56
I've been running the cheaper SanDisk High Endurance in my car dashcam, here in hot Australia for the last two years and it's still going perfect.
https://archive.ph/viPhp
Instagram hasn't had "heavy duty" filters since pre-iPhone 4 days when it was a lomography app. Everyone goes for an overly well lit but realistic look these days.

Although a lot of them do just shoot on larger cameras.
Good luck to all the people putting out the fires from this one
Over the weekend, LAPSUS$ posted a screenshot to its Telegram channel of what appeared to be information taken from an internal developer account for Azure, its cloud computing division.

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-investigating-potential-lapsus...
Is it reasonable that they been inside Okta for 2 months and Okta hasn't noticed?
The Data Behind the Wheels versus Doors Debate
That's why I recommend Fastmail, they have "auto-purge":

> Automatically delete messages after they have been in the folder for a certain amount of time, from 1 day to 1 year. Pinned messages are never deleted.
I really liked the sword of truth series from terry goodkind more than any other novel series I've read.

It isn't just medieval fantasy, there is a lot to take from his views on politics, human interaction and freedom.
Another solution has been implemented in Marginalia. Notes near complete source code.

source code: https://github.com/gdeer81/marginalia
example: http://gdeer81.github.io/marginalia/
Remember the last missile sent in anger in Kabul, August 2021?

Random civilians there, as many other American attacks were (are).
> Fairly recently, cameras (and their developers) started making opinionated decisions for us about things like the color of sky

That's called "auto white balance" and we've been stuck with it since the advent of digital cameras. Phones don't do much more than that; if they detect the sky it's to adjust denoising to not cause banding artifacts etc.
Hm, fair enough. It seems clear that Caesar's cognomen was hereditary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Caesar_(governor_...

But this is not a general feature of cognomina; compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovidia_gens#Members

Looking over some other articles, it looks like hereditary cognomina were an aristocratic feature. This has the funny side effect of more or less ensuring that aristocrats from the same family are very likely to have exactly the same name.
Yes, putting every device in Windows AD and installing remote management tools that run at the system level is a recipe for total compromise.

Software diversity is good. Remotely controlled mono-cultures are bad. IT management and security compliance people need to understand this.

I liken the mindset of (only we will use the remote control software to do good things) to Encryption back doors (only law enforcement will use them to catch criminals). Computer scientists call these 'Exceptional Access Systems' and it has been shown (many times) that it is impossible to ensure they will not be abused and used against you.

Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97690
OK then please provide an example of a market for labor (since that's what we're discussing ITT) that has been "made more free" and that has seen wages rise as a result.
The problem is that people don't treat css as code. If you use styled components or css in js you'll treat it as code.

Nobody would change private properties in a js class from outside that class. Same to css, you should not change css attributes from parents. Those are private to their component they are rendering.

If you need that, provide a public attribute to the component and he'll change it's design.

Do this, and css is very maintainable.
I didn't consent to that.

The earth should distill all water for my consumption.
After the cold war ended we had Iraq. And then the war on terror. War makes money.

I hear people say that our response to 9/11 shows that the terrorists won. I think actually bin Laden did a huge favor to the military industrial complex - they won.
>it's not that much sillier than stuff like "Owning a pet lobster in Maine is illegal when that lobster is pregnant" kind of laws. (true law btw)

I agree about the old testament, but this is only silly when taken out of context. Long before I got into network security I worked in the Maine Lobster industry shoveling bait (which is half-rotten fish mixed with salt, lobsters love it!) into buckets and weighing/storing lobsters at a fisherman's co-op.

An important part of conservation revolves around people putting fertile female lobsters back in the ocean when they are inadvertently caught. Maine puts a lot more effort into conserving them than the surrounding states/countries do (who frequently get caught poaching in Maine waters and keeping lobsters that would be illegal to keep even if they were allowed to fish in Maine.
> highly likely to be interacting with top secret level info.

Doubt it