skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had brief experience managing such IT team after which I've gained big respect for them. I've never seen such low budget to amount of work ratio in my IT career. Everybody expects them to fix the "trivial" problems immediately but reality in my case was:

- 2 "IT guys" for > 500 headcount company
- If you look at IT guy instant messaging app you will see many unread notifications all the time. Without tickets it's impossible to properly prioritize and divide work. "Tickets" for everything" was one of my first change.
- They are responsible for the broadest set of technologies / vendors I've ever seen. That includes: networking (including cabling, switched, wireless routing, VPN, firewalls), laptops, office apps, conferencing hardware (and software), IT security, accounting and warehouse software (including their MS SQL databases,) windows servers, virtualization, managing email accounts and maaaany more.
- without tickets they can't show real amount of work they are doing so justifying adjustment budget and staffing for the need is a big challenge. On the other hand everybody expects to fix trivial problems without forms (so most of their work!).
- Upper management don't perceive the as value but only as a cost
- trivial problems could be fixed faster but that would require supplies for spare parts. This is bigger than you may think: few generations of laptops in use, office hardware, spare monitors, docking stations etc. That require office space for a small "warehouse" which is not free. How to justify this need considering the previous points?
- many people fix "trivial problems" themselves: replacing cable, "borrowing" cable/mouse/monitor from a different desks. That creates more work for the IT guys: more issues because of incomplete office hardware.
There are already a few major Helm repo aggregators (bitnami, etc) and applying and managing helm charts is fairly simple.

What you want can be achieved either with an Argo Flux repo or a Helmfile. Both of which are defined as code and easily versioned.

It would be nice for the industry to coalesce around a more common stack for sure.
>Gutmann Wipe - Peter Gutmann's method (Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory).

>saddens me, the (baseless) myth will perpetuate again and again.

Why baseless? My understanding is that it had solid grounds for the patterns used, but those were based on encodings that aren't used in modern HDDs anymore, so now you can get the same result with a few random passes.
I was reading about this the other day and was surprised to learn that traditionally Sichuan cuisine used Sichuan peppercorns which are unrelated to either black pepper or new world peppers, and evidently have a somewhat different mechanism of action that is still being studied. I've never tried it but it's allegedly similar to the feeling of a 9 volt battery or carbonated drink [0].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper
I think it crashed my phone, froze between tutorial steps and when I looked back my phone, a galaxy note 10+ had restarted.
Or… we can just do nuclear, which is SAFER than solar/wind energy, and not have any issues with needing to build giant batteries.
Adding some more:

-Web policies that actively prevent you from doing research in key company technologies (edit: fake example, but effectively it was on the level of a gun maker blocking searches on firearms)

-No budget for replacing/upgrading outdated computers that get absolutely crushed by memory hogging corporate nannyware. It's amazing how little you get done when it takes five minutes to open Excel

-Computers not arriving until well after the start date of new hires

-Outdated database access prograns that won't run on x64 systems (or better yet, are still run on terminals and the only viable means of export was printing...and yes I ran into that only a couple years ago in a Fortune 100)

I get a lot of this is outside the hands of IT to actually fix, but they're still "IT Problems" even if the root cause is shitty management
Many "security" tokens are just... tokens. Literally an ID that is writable and readable to any close device.

If you think its antique... like, its still widely in use today, i think you are wrong.
207 has been used for that for decades. GraphQL looks like it's been implemented by someone who thought 200 and 404 were the only possible codes.
The article starts out saying that Biden should run again in 2024 which is about the most unserious, idiotic position for the democrats to be taking right now. Barely even a majority of democrats like this guy anymore and everyone else simply hates him. Pull your heads out of your butts if you don’t want to get trounced by Trump in two years. Good lord.
Most synagogues aren't cult-like. Quite the opposite, really. However, there definitely are some forms of Judaism which deserve the label. Even my Israeli friends think the Haredi are batshit crazy. You would not accuse the people who made this film of being anti-semites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_(2017_film)

It's fair to call out the wackiest religious cults, and Christendom offers many to choose from.
I left you a perfect chance to retort with a joke about future crypto-assets growth, but you chose just to whine lamely. No wonder crypto bros are so non-likable.
A number of my blog posts over the years have hit #1 on HN. I've noticed that HN commenters are more likely to follow the "guidelines" with each other than with the article author. Too often, the author is treated uncharitably, with contempt and/or ridicule.

I've spoken to dang personally about this at some length, but I wasn't really satisfied with his response, which was more or less a denial of the problem, or at least a refusal to do anything about it. Honestly, I've occasionally thought of blacklisting HN referrers from my web server, though I've never gone through with such a drastic measure.

I've found that the best way to handle it is to take matters into my own hands, create an account here, and reply in the comments. I can clarify my points and shoot down uncharitable reactions. It's a shame that authors have to self-manage the responses though. Left to themselves, HN commenters often becomes vicious wolves. I would say that the HN guidelines are worthless if the same respect isn't given to the article authors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
>I wonder if scientists feel similarly to Neil deGrasse Tyson today.

Find it hard to imagine anyone taking him seriously after seeing his Twitter account.
What's really weird about Biden is that he tried to govern as though he had a strong legislative majority. He didn't, and it didn't work. He could have done better if he didn't act like he could run everything without the Republicans. Instead, he keeps proposing things that are too extreme for the most conservative members of his own party, and then being surprised that they don't pass the Senate.

And, as you say, he has been a politician for decades. He should know this.

Unless... is it possible that he's smart? Is he pandering to the liberal wing of his own party, throwing out ideas that he knows are extreme and not good policy, and then letting them die in Congress?

Or is he trying to shine a spotlight on Manchin and Systema, and get them primaried?

All in all, I don't understand his strategy. It seems to not work very well, and it seems that he should know better.
I'd like to address some of the comments I've read on here and on my blogspot about this interaction I had with GPT-3.

Some folks are saying how it learned so fast, deduced, maybe as fast or even faster than a human, what I was talking about. To quote myself from the interaction: "This is not correct."

It's a bit of a confusing situation, because there are two separate interactions going on - first, to figure out how many tones certain coins would make, and second, how to get free calls. It did very well on the latter, but failed completely on the former (and, most likely the second part could have been conducted without benefit of most of the lengthy first part).

I think most people would figure out very quickly how to solve this about the tones: "If a payphone makes 5 beeps for a quarter, how many beeps would it make for a nickel?" And, if they didn't get it right away, they most likely would with further prompting: "A quarter is 25 cents, and it makes 5 beeps. A nickel is 5 cents. How many cents does each beep represent, and how many beeps would a nickel make?" Simple simple simple.

Yet, the AI never figured this out. It's not until way down in the interaction that I finally came out and said what I was trying to make it get: "No, a nickel makes 1 tone, because each tone represents 5 cents. A nickel is 5 cents, so it makes 1 tone." I had to spell it out, and it never did deduce this on its own. Once I said this, it was able to then, after still a bit of a struggle, say that a dime makes two beeps, etc.
My dog is currently running a similar study from the balcony to her dog food bowl.

Every day I move the bowl, every night they find it, and every morning I spend battling soldier ants.

The tour was really enjoyable to watch through, thanks for sharing this!
Spotify doesn't use the Spotify model (2020)
Note that Sichuan pepper is unrelated to chili pepper.
I work in IT security, so I am probably one of those people who screw other people over by pushing patches to be installed no matter what.

Behind the scene, it is a never ending war between me who says "if your want your data to be safe, we need to patch", and the business that says "no, those is quarter rend (or stuff like this)'.

So I say" on, sign this paper what you start that you do not want your data to be secure"

And it goes on forever.

This is exhausting for everyone, but IT is zero the very bottom of thefood chain, we cannot claim sales or new products and provide z utility like water or trash collection.

So this is not always that someone is trying to screw you over, out is just that technology works the way it works, with the money that is invested in it.
Only if the solar covers all your energy usage, the real issue is when the sun is shining, generally people are out and about and their EVs are not charging during that time.
Maybe. But if you have a lone individual assassinating someone, then you've given them a platform to spread their message. It seems this was a case of an individual. If there was any evidence that this was organized by a party, then it could be appropriate to name the party but still withold the individual's name to prevent notoriety.
Can D1 handle a 92GB SQLite database file?
When a company starts to make threats to the public, maybe the public should start considering nationalization as an option
The first sale doctrine (both the copyright first sale doctrine and the trademark first sale doctrine) doesn't apply to counterfeits.
Yuck! There are reasons processes like that exist as annoying as they are. At a certain scale orgs have to make a queue or else nothing gets done. I work at a scale up and have seen the phenomenon with my own eyes. Easy enough when there are 10 employees. A lot harder when you 10x that number.

The situation you describe does sound pretty extreme though. Maybe your org is large enough to warrant it who knows. I don't think I could work someplace that had that much red tape.
your second point was the main point in my admittedly overly cryptic comment.

Narrative control + amplification power + even brand awareness = revenue opportunity. For example, The Epoch Times, the media mouthpiece of Falun Gong, promotes Shen Yun, the Chinese Dance troupe showcasing the 'beauty of China before Communism'. Propaganda and Profit need each other
> What's the best language to write something like this in? Python?

Python (packed with PyInstaller) is a reasonable choice.

If you know a language that supports cross-platform builds, that (all other things being equal, including library support for what you want to do), that might be more convenient for distribution, OTOH, you probably want to test on your supported platforms anyway, so building on each isn't that much additional work.
I remember A. K. Dewdney introducing "Wa-Tor" in Scientific American in the 80's.
I was fascinated by those explorations.

(And SimAnt is of course the more obvious parallel to this particular simulation.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa-Tor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt
>They are apocalyptic/UFO/meditation cult

I didn't see anything like you describe[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Central_teachings
Superkeys Browser Extension
I published the alpha version of this opensource productivity tool. I would love to get some feedback about the extension.
It's available for both chrome and firefox.
I very much like the idea of cryptpad, especially the organization of multiple docs in folders, but to be fully useful in any org it needs a way to store files and documents of any type. Otherwise you'll need to juggle with multiple apps, and integration is not always the best.

Many orgs use Drive, the integration of Docs is a nice bonus but what matters is the storage of docs, images for projects, photos of events, ... I would love to switch some of those orgs away from Google, but there is no easy solution.
Was hoping for the same, so lets discuss...

Anyone have strong opinions about only allowing squash commits, vs allowing merge commits?

Having used both professionally, I don't think the benefits of squash commits only outweigh the hurdles for new developers. Merging is just easier, and I don't think the merge commits in master are really all that jarring?
Without a complete read of the code (I wish they wrote up the protocol, not having one is a huge red flag, so instead I'll just risk being wrong on the internet), this seems like a straightforward KDF where instead of storing a master key in an HSM, you just remember your master passphrase and each new password is a diversification component.

Typically, a protocol like this would have the master key in a vault/hsm, and your first user key would be derived from that master, and you do derivations from that, and when you need a new identity, you derive a new user key from the vault key.

Concievably, we could replace the vault with hashes of just really long passphrases that you remember and generate on some trusted interface, and then derive new RP site passwords from the hash of each long passphrase. Mnemonic password storage essentially. What you would usually do is include a counter in the authN protocol, so each instance of the session password going over the wire has forward secrecy, but that requires your relying parties to speak that protocol, where the proposal here is just for password management.

I'm sure the people behind this are very competent and clever, but again, the problem it solves and how it solves it would be more useful than a command line UX and "trust us!" What I can't stand about security and some crypto people is they challenge people to reason about something without providing the objective details of a protocol, and then expect us to trust them when we can't reason about it as effectively. I'm merely ignorant, not stupid, and asking me to trust something because I can't reason about it borders on offensive sometimes.
I originally went into premed in college and struggled a lot, I had other family members who were premed & or doctors and didn't understand how I could be getting C's in biochem or physiology.

I finally gave up realizing there was no chance i was getting into medical school with bad GPA and switched to EE where I admittedly had to study a lot less and got much better grades. People underestimate just how difficult bio is and i think the high volume of information and importance of memorization is just training you for medical school where the volume of material you need to study is magnitudes more.

I don't envy anyone who went through it. When it came to physics, math, circuits, etc. you could really get away with just doing a couple practice problems and understanding the core concepts. The experience of going through two very different fields and being an utter failure in one made me believe that people's brains can just be wired differently.
Senseless discussion at that point.
Musk stated that 50% of the users are bots and that Twitter is hiding this.

If true, he’s got an out.
This is a start, thanks!
Politicians don't really need to be good at policy. They have people to do that. They just need to be charismatic - able to capture the imagination of a constituency, and able to persuade other politicians to support their platform.

Of course it'd be nice if our politicians were well-educated in the details of the policies they are championing, and if they could independently reason about the pros and cons, but realistically that's not what they're there for. They're like the sales guys at work - they might have some personal interest in techy details, but it's not what they're hired to do or what they excel at. They're hired to make the sales, not the product.

I think the party strategists who picked a pretty face and a familiar name to represent the party did a decent job. Trudeau continues to have the confidence of most of his party, which is why he's still in the leadership position. He's clearly inoffensive enough that he can maintain support inside the party while also not igniting enough of a backlash amongst the voting public to indisputably defeat his party in 2021. He might be a milquetoast character representing an ideologically unadventurous party, but perhaps that's all he's meant to be?
But then you cause those bad emissions in your car park while it's heating up :)

I don't there is a big benefit overall.
> While it's true that this seed file doesn't require the ongoing synchronization that a vault does, it's something that you need to have, and to manage with care.

But even if it rarely changes, how would that file be synced in practice? Probably dropped in a Syncthing or Nextcloud folder. And if you do that, you may as well drop a Keepass file in there, and not have to deal with the many problems that this "vaultless" solution cause.
I don’t know where you’re getting your opinion from because it’s also completely possible (and extremely likely) for a paid social media service to present harmful/false content to its users for as long as its users are enjoying it.
I did read the article. It doesn't make the same claims that you do, and - strangely - it doesn't superceded national and EU regulation.
> After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction.
The comedian, Dom Irerra used to tell a joke, where he would ask "Ever get so hungry you feel like punching someone in the head?". I don't know why, but it always struck me in an incredibly funny way. It still cracks me up just thinking about it. It's a strange association, but it also makes perfect sense.
I wonder what working with the Republicans to legislate would actually produce these days. For instance, they considered Roe extreme and so they unilaterally overturned it. They considered banning prayer in public schools as extreme and unilaterally overturned that. I wonder what it is that they could agree on and actually pass?
UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world
SRP in Phoenix Arizona has a form of this, I’m currently switching to it.

They have peak/off-peak rates with an additional monthly fee based off your maximum kilowatt usage in any 30minute on-peak interval. They also integrate with an ecobee thermostat (and give a $100 credit for buying them - just got two for $50 a piece) and will automatically adjust your thermostat up by at most 4 degrees during on-peak conservation events where demand is spiking in the valley. They can even pre-cool your house by 2 degrees prior to the event on off-peak rates to try and comfortably get you through the conservation event.

I’ve configured my pool pump to turn off during peak hours and will avoid doing dishes and laundry during peak. I imported last years hourly usage into spreadsheet and ran the numbers. If my math is right, I should save on average between $100 and $200 per month on electric (I’ve had winter bills as low as $150 and summer bills as high as $750!).
Ah apple, often times thought incorrectly to be less evil than Microsoft or Google but has, in time been just as shameless as either in their own "apple-y" way
Could you provide a link where I can read more details about it? .. thanks
can't find the model size or a description of the dataset on the text-generator page
Not sure about any of that - there was always a dial tone. But, what they had done with these phones was not let any sound from the mouthpiece go into the phone until all the appropriate coins were inserted. You could tell right away if it was a phone that this would work on or not by blowing into the mouthpiece. If you heard the wind sound in the earpiece, it would work, if no sound was picked up by the mouthpiece, it would not work.
Terrible behavior from Apple. Like petulant children.
I think brave search is really the best alternative search engine, its actually independent.
I thought the whole reason for encrypted connections is to deny information as much as possible from intermediaries (ISPs), so those who control servers can hoard all the information to their own benefit?
That's how the system was supposed to work. Since then Congress has given much of its authority over to the executive branch. The presidency doesn't need to consult Congress to engage in military action or make international promises.

I agree that we need to fix congress and also break the duopoly strangling it with swings from one extreme to another.

The president is supposed to be an administrator executing the laws passed by co guess. They are rhe head of state in I ternarional affairs but without the authority to make binding agreeme to for the country. They are the head of the military responsible for defending the county but are not able to attack other countries without the approval of congress. At least, that's how it's supposed to be.

Only congress can save this country, and that should terrify everyone.
Which is why "Prime Minister's Questions" time is so valuable and entertaining.
That's the wrong SKU, it's actually Haswell/Broadwell and 4c8t, not 2c4t: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/92983/i...
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I don't think this comparison is fair to LeCun. He has literally been at the forefront of ML for over 40 years, starting with his PhD thesis and continuing to the present, and his public fame is entirely a byproduct of the awareness of the impact of his work. (Disclaimer: I've known Yann for decades and worked down the hall from him during his NEC years.)
Lol there’s no such thing as common sense especially in a large and highly diverse population such as “social media users”
I worked at a place where IT was obsessed with moving everyone to thin clients. The executives loved it, HR loved it, and it took almost 3 years to get most developer work kind of working.
You are implying this study shows more reinfections causes rather than is merely coorelated with poor condition. Nothing wrong with doing the study but you can't just ignore confounders to the point you are attempting to drive.
Try brave search, form my experience its really much better than DDG. And its independent.
This article is a highbrow variety of the two minute hate, in which an ideological enemy is identified (in this case a newspaper), and 179 years of history are cherry-picked in order to present a simple, satisfying narrative that this enemy has been wrong at every turn, and moreover that they are bad, privileged people.

The examples given are too brief and editorialized to actually learn anything from (according to this article the Irish Potato Famine was "largely caused by free trade") except that these white, entitled, racist Oxford snobs have been ruining the world for 179 years.