skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my concern is that spatial data and its interactions are quite distinct from traditional tabular data, or imagery data. I'm less interested in learning how to classify trees and roofs from a satellite image, and more in the interaction of various layers of differing types.

That said, I could probably adjust inputs so that there is a tabular training set. Gut feel is that there will still be some big holes in my knowledge by travelling a traditional ML route.
Over zoom is 99% all we do. Office is optional for those who want to get away from their families.
Well I believe my private emails were read by the authorities and they thought I was about to sabotage the trading systems at the bank.
I got a 14" MBP M1 recently. It felt so incredibly fragile that I was anxious moving it or opening it.

I'd really like to emphasize the word "incredibly". That is, I don't think I could credibly describe how fragile these laptops are without having one as an example.

I already considered Macbooks to be a fragile series of laptops, given longtime users insist their insurance-subscription "AppleCare+" is a necessity. (This is not normal for laptops.)

So, I searched to see if it had durability issues, and found this, and immediately returned it. Not worth the risk!
Dynamically-linked userspace C is a smouldering trash heap of bad decisions.

You'd be better off distributing anything--anything--else than dynamically-linked binaries. Jar files, statically-linked binaries, C source code, Python source code, Brainfuck code ffs...

The "./configure and recompile from source" model of Linux is just too deeply entrenched. Pity.
Ideapad 5 pro with an AMD proc. it's the 14" variant. I am not near it right now, so I can't give you specifically what model. Got it on sale at Costco. Running Pop_os. The newer Linux kernels have support of amd_pastate so battery life is good.

Previous Mac was a 13" Macbook Pro if anyone is keeping score. Loved it, but just didn't want or need something that expensive.
Anecdata point, I jumped ship as soon as that became public.

Zoom is a looooong way from having the sort of trust that Signal/WhisperSystems have in my mind.

(Which is a pity, I really liked the idea of Keybase.)
Yes, I have been doing exactly the same for at least 15 years now and have had a wide variety of throwaway/registration emails compromised.
A root canal is an attempt to save what's left of the tooth. The alternative is an extraction.
Scrum is more than "periodic team meetings". It's daily standups, sprints, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retro (cited lengths for these meetings are aspirational; usually they take 1.5x-2x the recommended times). It's sprint goals and sprint commitments, failure to meet which will be recorded and used against you in performance reviews and disciplinary actions. (Don't tell me they're "forecasts" now. They're commitments because people higher than you in the org chart use them for long-term planning.)

The only reason why major companies undergo Agile transformations -- and why these almost always take the form of Scrum -- is because of the promise of fine-grained metrics, analytics, and control of the SDLC by upper management. That's what the agile consultants pitched to the CTO. Everybody involved in a typical Scrum shop is playing a game of Mornington Crescent -- of pretending to deliver quality software in an organic developer-customer relationship when what they're really expected to deliver is stories, estimates, and burndown data to their bosses (or their bosses' bosses).

Anyway, that has not much to do with WFH, aside from the fact that calling workers into the office comes from the same place as imposing Scrum: the bosses need to feel in total control.
First-time homebuyers can get a FHA loan, which allow a 3% downpayment.
Arbeit macht frei (64 bit edition)
In crisis, people trust feelings over facts
I did read it.

The point is that the mother is being charged with aiding her daughter to have an abortion due to evidence collected from chats they thought were secure, but which were still susceptible to a warrant.

Now, there are other charges. And the time the abortion happened it occurred while the 20 week ban wasn't being enforced, because the state knew it wouldn't hold up under Roe (and is only illegal and chargeable now, with the court having overturned Roe). So, yes, it's super interesting.

But the point is that police are charging someone for aiding an abortion due to texts the sender thought were secure. That's the entire relevancy. Anything else about this particular incident isn't germane.
I've seen this bug in prod while consulting. Bad regex.
With a task tracker, forum, and chat software.
> is still being put into Synapse instead of Dendrite

Because costumers probably? People are not all just gone switch.
I live in a city. Opening my wifi menu on my MBP, I see dozens of networks. I've never really experienced any spikes like you mentioned every with gaming or video calls.
Yes and no: it's not a blockchain. It's relying on the fact that the drand network is producing distributed, verifiable randomness using a threshold scheme with distributed key generation. So the secret key of the group is never in memory on any device and the only way to obtain a valid signature for a message is by having a threshold number of "partial signatures" being produced by the drand nodes in the network. Currently it relies on the League of Entropy network, run by Cloudflare, Protocol Labs, Ethereum Foundation, Kudelski Security and other organizations, including multiple universities.
So the security is relying on the fact that the network's goal is to produce public randomness, and that parties have no reason to collude.
For instance the League of Entropy is used for leader election and randomness by Filecoin, so it's already "securing" a lot of things, adding timelocked data on top seems like a nice way to use the network.
And yeah, if there are ever a threshold of nodes colluding to produce a signature "too early", that's sadly not detectable.
You think heat and power management is a pointless goal?

Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity.

But it should also solve problems and make lives easier for its users. A thin and light laptop that consumes a fraction of power and generates a fraction of heat does exactly that.

I love FOSS for its contributions to humanity and its capability to be practical. But open hardware is often not. It's usually terribly expensive, very inconvenient or simply badly executed.

At some point, being blind to the advancements from a closed platform becomes being blind to people's needs and ending up lost in a cloud of ideology.
They literally mentioned the first 3 in the blog post. They said the issue with all of them was related to handling of bad sectors on the SSDs.
Absolutely fantastic! You ask for four legs and receive five. I wonder what captain Picard would have to say about that.
> Its discriminatory because if you don't know someone you can be SOL.

Thanks for explicitly explaining that part. Now that you've put it that way, it's a pretty apt term but I probably wouldn't have been able to figure out because that term is usually used for things like gender, race, etc. and my brain immediately jumped to that. Maybe I am just stupid, but sometimes it shouldn't be that hard to understand what people mean and it helps to be more explicit.
I got a certain amount of schadenfreude from seeing Apple's opulent "spaceship" campus sit essentially empty during COVID. A building shaped like an asshole is probably a good place for assholes to go to work.
Wouldn't the spammers then just mark 100% of their spam as private?
> This is particularly problematic for hosted Kubernetes services like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which often limit the CPU and memory available to the API server. These services can gracefully scale the API server up when they predict it will require more resources - e.g. when more nodes are created. Unfortunately at the time of writing most don’t factor in more CRDs being created and won’t begin scaling until the API server is repeatedly “OOM killed” (terminated for exceeding its memory budget).

Yeah, that's the limitation of hosted kubernetes services. Internally we used crossplane a lot. Though we haven't reached this limitation yet, we used another approach by deploying a standalone etcd + k8s apiserver as k8s (eks/gke) pods. And register the CRDs into this apiserver. So we can scale the etcd and apiserver easily.
This sounds likely, but is there solid data to support this?
The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life – But What Does It Do?
Seriously. Sometimes I walk by an office building and see the cubicles inside. I literally tense up inside in involuntary spasm. Life in a cubicle farm is like a slow-burn version of hell.

I will do anything, anything, to avoid ever going to an office again. I will also say that if anyone is so dense as to require office work in 2022, I will never work for them, even if they later change their minds back to WFH.
Employees that fail to adapt to a changing world will be the ones unlikely to survive a recession.

We're already seeing WFH positions get "retconned" into hybrid positions as tech hiring stumbles a bit.
My company extolled the amazing productivity results of the connected culture through the pandemic but is pushing for RTO. Worse, during the pandemic they hire people like me as permanent remote. Now we’re getting pressures… denied promotions because we’re not in the office. Probably time to start looking for permanent remote employers.
That's total expenses, not emergency room expenses.
At apple you are not allowed to discuss anything with anyone until you've gone to one of three(!!) internal websites to see if they are "disclosed" on the thing you want to discuss with them. "Spontaneous" conversations cannot happen by definition.
"Common sense"
What is a good SMTP service these days in 2022? It beyond frustrating that every provider is now blocking SMTP.
I'm not comparing to some absolutely maximalist alternative. I'm asking how you get an equivalent product experience without the compromise (which would make everyone happy). I strongly believe the UX afforded by the compromise is how Signal has won all its users. The threat model and all it entails is the value prop.

I genuinely believe there is a lot of commentary on this thread from people who have never designed a secure system. You never get 100% security and 100% privacy. Even if you only use public keys, web3 style, you're still a traceable public key--by definition not private. Okay everyone uses a fresh key for every action. Well now you have a problem figuring out who anybody is and whether you should trust them. Either trust isn't self-sovereign or it is. And we've learned time and time again that self-sovereign trust systems are akin to anarchy. Signal leverages the verifiable short identifiers available to a mobile phone, at the expense of 100% perfect anonymity when asking the question "has this phone number used signal". Literally everything beyond that point is 100% secure and as private as two public keys corresponding can be.

1. As a signal user, I don't want to see the threat model weakened so that we can include email anons, personally.

2. Even if we did, I don't understand how doing so in any way solves the privacy issue. How is email any more private than phone? If an email provider got phished people would be yelling the same thing "how could signal be so stupid to use email, don't you know it's insecure". Email providers can still be compelled into shenanigans, too.

3. Signal as a product has to facilitate a key exchange. I'm pretty sure you can checkout their source code and run their protocol and solve the key exchange portion differently if you so desire. You could have "signal without phone numbers or email" tomorrow if you wanted. As long as your users are willing to copy and paste public keys into their messenger, that is.

To sum up: the key exchange and distribution is the entire problem. And Signal presents an adequate solution: bind phone numbers to asymmetric crypto, add perfect forward secrecy and give people secure messaging. Surely it's not for everyone, but this incident in my eyes only further validated that this premise is solid.
Once upon a time, Usenet was THE reason I was connected to the Internet.

These days, Usenet is a mere shadow of itself but many of the purely technical newsgroups still survive.

Because I am an 8-bit CP/M enthusiast, I obviously subscribe to comp.os.cpm, but I also subscribe to some 'newer' active newsgroups like alt.os.linux.mint, and comp.os.linux.misc.

Unfortunately, the other eight newsgroups I am subscribed to might have only one or two posts per year, if they're lucky.
Unpopular opinion, but you can’t just look at “companies made more profits” and decide that means WFH is more productive.

People starting dying from covid while crypto markets soared, so I guess killing people with covid fuels bitcoin.

Or possible they huge money printing influenced the picture.

EDIT: Not saying we weren’t more productive, just saying that HN tends to be very scientific but is really ignoring correlation != causation which we all would point out for most other things.
In practice, the way the poor live is to always look for a used, refurbished, or pre-owned option.

So while if you buy new you can't get very much computer, if you buy a bunch of junkers, you can get enough to get by. But they have to be in a sweet spot of "old enough" to have depressed price and "new enough" to not be useless for current applications. This was actually a problem during the 2010's long reign of Intel, because they didn't add a lot of generational performance improvement, so old systems retained their price for longer. Since other architectures have caught up on leading performance, pricing has finally started discounting these older CPUs again.

Still, it's not a 300-fold difference and the bottommost price brackets tend to need a DIY approach. But it's definitely more feasible than 1997.
As an aside, the entity that understands the original formulation of the OODA loop (not the ridiculous circle shaped one) and can find ways to trigger the positive feedback loop (contained within the original diagram) in the mind of their adversary can gain an advantage as they both saturate the opponent's bandwidth and simultaneously take them away from their goals. My understanding behind the original intent of the OODA was to be able to strategically exploit that weakness.
You've just described Japanese work culture.
Thank you. My ping to my router from everywhere in my house on WiFi (even my roof, 3 story row house with an AP on each floor) is 5 ms. So stupid to run wire across a living room when you could just have decent networking equipment.
What a terrible argument. You might as well just switch to Telegram
Yup, here are mine.

# Search all directories for this directory name.
dname() {
[ $# -eq 0 ] && echo "$0 'dir_name'" && return 1
fd --hidden --follow --exclude .git --type directory "$*"
}

# Search all files for this filename.
fname() {
[ $# -eq 0 ] && echo "$0 'file_name'" && return 1
fd --hidden --follow --exclude .git --type file "$*"
}

# Find and replace with a pattern and replacement
sub() {
[ $# -ne 2 ] && echo "$0 'pattern' 'replacement'" && return 1
pattern="$1"
replace="$2"
command rg -0 --files-with-matches "$pattern" --hidden --glob '!.git' | xargs -0 perl -pi -e "s|$pattern|$replace|g"
}

# Uses z and fzf, if there's a match then jump to it. If not, bring up a list via fzf to fuzzy search.
unalias z 2> /dev/null
z() {
[ $# -gt 0 ] && _z "$*" && return
cd "$(_z -l 2>&1 | sed 's/^[0-9,.]* *//' | fzf)"
}
Full 5 hour video interview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
> uh, you can get a packet from your software on one machine, through a switch and into your software on the second machine in 1-2us if you know what you're doing

This isn’t a pair of servers sitting in a room with a switch in between them on a simple /24 subnet. It’s a gigantic cloud data center with a massive network spanning a huge number of devices.

The simple things you can get to work in a small setup don’t apply at this scale.
Yeah but that incredulous for a windshield replacement.
Yeah, it's not exactly how it works, but close. The League's node ran together a distributed key generation that created a secret key for the whole League so that it's sufficient to have only a threshold number of nodes to recreate that secret key. But since it's using threshold cryptography, it doesn't even ever need to recreate the secret, it can simply aggregate "partial signatures" into valid signatures for the group's public key. The timelock scheme itself relies on so-called "identity-based encryption", so that you can encrypt a plaintext towards the signature of a specific message. And you know in advance that the League is going to sign round number X at time Y, so you can encrypt towards the signature of the round number X, and once it's produced, that signature allows to decrypt the ciphertext. Pairing-based cryptography is kinda magic on that front :)
The rest of the world has gone back to hybrid or full time office long time ago.

I have a feeling, most of us here in the states will go back to hybrid eventually.

However, it won't happen for a while.

But once you start seeing unemployment rate tick up past 6-7%, employers will have more leverage. All of a sudden, you will have more employees willing to commute.
Having been a victim of this recently, I concur. Don't use MailChimp.
You already have the legal ability to own a rocket launcher - it's not any different from any other "destructive device". The main barrier to ownership is finding someone willing to sell you one, and the price they would likely ask for it. There are rich collectors in US who own tanks (with active turret), artillery etc - mostly older stuff, but still plenty destructive.
Newsom would make a bad President and a terrible candidate. He's a classic corrupt corporate Democrat patsy[1] who holds power in a one-party state. Furthermore, that one-party state is California, which fact alone is enough to turn off a sizeable chunk of the national electorate. His very visibly corrupt French Laundry escapade would be replayed endlessly and undoubtedly to great effect. Finally, and most importantly, his insulation from the national political mood and current and heretofore political imperative to appeal to the California electorate leaves him woefully unprepared to effectively contest a national election. DeSantis or Youngkin would crush him like a bug.

Like Kamala Harris, he would make more sense as a VP nominee (although he would similarly be a bad choice overall). His politics and California provenance would be an albatross around any Presidential candidate's neck, but access to the lucrative California establishment Democrat donor network might outweigh the electoral deadweight.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/question...

> Kinney is well known around the state Capitol as a strategist, ghostwriter of Newsom’s speeches and unofficial fixer summoned to help loosen the governor from political jams. His dual roles as an advisor to Newsom and a lobbyist paid by companies to influence the governor and his staff have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest for the administration.
Though note that your message history is still private, as you have to manually export and import the local message history whenever you get a new device.
Hah. People will take the abuse and jump when things recover. They will also lose productivity if people are bitter about it.
Can you elaborate? Are they developing them now? If not how realistic is it that they could have something as sophisticated as ASML in a few years?
All non remote offices are intolerable when you've become accustomed to taking lunch with your spouse and having your kids hug you at your desk when they return from school.
I think it's less for Trump level people and more for basic scams. Imagine just automating a Facebook bot to take someone's picture, edit it into a compromising scene, and message them saying you'll share it with their friends if they don't send you some Bitcoin. This gives you a scalable blackmail tool.

Of course, after a while it'll probably stop working, but there will be a period of time where it can be done profitably and a longer period where it will be obnoxious.

And, of course, you could probably always use the tool to scare children, who, even in the future, might not know that everyone would shrug off the generated pictures.
I'm not so sure that is a sensible inference to draw. Government "interference" in healthcare in many countries where citizens both have greater access and report more satisfaction with the healthcare service they receive.

Also, free markets really don't have much to say for people who don't have the money to trade in that market, and in the healthcare space, denying treatment to people just because they can't afford treatment can cause some massive negative externalities. Just imagine how bad it would be if there was a massive pandemic and only the rich could afford vaccines; there would be so many unvaccinated hosts for that virus that new variants would keep emerging and significantly harm the quality of life for everyone.

Also, market efficiencies are largely a product of the ability of the consumer to compare the price and quality of different services. When the government is the consumer, it A) can afford to allocate this task to a few experts (rather than demand the entire population learn how to evaluate the cost and efficacy of medical treatments), B) can use its monopsony power to negotiate prices, and C) can use its treatment and outcome data to identify opportunities to do preventative maintenance rather than the more expensive (in both life and money) emergency care.

I'm more sympathetic to free markets than most, but healthcare is arguably the sector where free markets would produce the worst outcomes.
My issue with SES is that your account may be placed in a Sandbox with no explanation other than to delete your account.
unemployment is still low. employees still have a ton of leverage. But I agree, once the power tilts in favor of employers, more people will RTO.
Not only that, but I think those companies that are not burdened with enormous costs related to having an office will be more likely to reward / retain / hire employees.

It seems absurd that some WFH-only companies will basically give some "crazy" amount (like $10k) to new-hires to deck-out their home office, but that is probably less than the amortized office-space cost of hiring that person on site each year.
Twitter users who apparently play Stadia tell quite a different story in every encounter I've had with them.
You're clearly taking this too personally to have a productive conversation so I'll leave it where it was.

Ironic you bring up sports teams though...
> In my experience, doing collaborative creative work is dramatically more difficult in a remote environment

Work on improving your ability to do collaborative work remotely? It is the future
The US government does a lot to increase health care costs. For one example, the government empowers the AMA to strictly limit the number of seats in medical schools, the purpose being to limit the supply of doctors to keep their fees high.
That isn't true. Public opinion has recently reversed.