skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how people feel about making other aspects of their lives remote. Attending remote conferences? How about remote vacations? Remote schooling for their kids?
> Why not?

It usually has less to do with experience than it has to do with "time served". A company wants to incentivise their employees to not quit.
Since we already know a pretty decent-sized meteor hit in the Yucatan, shouldn't we expect to see evidence of this process (at least starting to) happening there? I'm not certain what that evidence would look like, and maybe 65 million years is too short a time period?
The problem being that there’s no proof that what was encrypted is actually the source code, before it can be decrypted. So you’d have to take the vendor’s word for it.
> Pragmatic

> Rewrite it in Rust

Idk, I don't see the irony here
Cubicles are still far better than the open-plan offices that replaced them.
The 'illusion of knowledge' that makes people overconfident
Judge Rules Twitter to Turn over Documents to Elon Musk Revealing Fake Accounts
They should. And I’ve been personally fighting the city to allow building more housing for years.

But I’m not sure how that makes a difference to what I said.
It is not really a competition!

Anybody can be like that, anybody at all. And in my opinion it is a very good thing it is going out of fashion!
In their defence at least MFC/Win32 is still patched and supported even if it's not getting new features.

Although it's probably not the same because they don't have to run any physical hardware to keep it going like IoT Cloud needs.
As someone who just got their vaccine and in the high risk group: ooof I hope not.

What data points to it being a threat in the 'mainstream' (I don't like that word here) population right now?

here are CA stats [1]; only .8% (mostly identify as cis) female infected.

though it doesn't show demo xtabs over time. so hard to tell if only is growing.

If it spreads through brief contact we'd be screwed..

Let alone if it spreads through droplets and or fomites.

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Sad we failed yet again. Especially queer community, and like all things health disproportionally bipoc. seems like we had all the tools & knowledge to stop, or drastically slow, this one but failed.

Seeing photos of pox on people's faces is just truly terrifying.

I really really hope this vaccine works or at least prevents sores like that.

Hard to change behavior to avoid all sex / human touch..

1: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Monkeypox-Da...
Hi there,

On August 8th, 2022, DigitalOcean discovered that our Mailchimp account had been compromised as part of a wider Mailchimp Security Incident. As a result, a number of DigitalOcean customer email addresses may have been viewed by an unauthorized individual.

Impact to you
No customer information other than email address was impacted
Correlation does not imply causation. A company achieving "record profits" does not necessarily have to be because there was no drop in productivity.

It's entirely possible that a company can have a drop in productivity and record profits at the same time.

Anecdotally, my company had record profits during the period of WFH, and I personally think my productivity stayed the same or improved. However, as a company we also shipped significantly less new features/products than we did in years past (and my opinion as to why is because we had significant organizational delays caused by miscommunication about timelines and priorities (stuff that in theory might have been improved if we were not WFH)). If we had not had a drop in the amount we shipped, it's possible our record profits would have been even higher record profits.
Not only that, but when the promotions, raises and choice projects all go to the people who actually show up in the office, you’ll see things change.

Sure, lots of people will say “i don’t care about those things” which is fine.

But my prediction is that for most roles, slowly but surely work will return to the office.
As someone who grew up on a farm in Ireland there is an embarrassment of archaeological sites. The general philosophy is they are safer in the ground and we’ll excavate them when we get round to it. That said there is a real danger of sites being destroyed before they are properly investigated and I think more should be done to chronicle them properly otherwise you are relying on people to work against their self interest when developing sites (an archaeological dig can seriously impact the owner or developer of a site)
I wonder how it would be possible to stop people from publishing and spreading research that will doom some subsegment of humanity/culture. If it turns out that proliferating something like DALL-E 5 causes serious irreversible effects to human culture, what would the researchers conclude was the correct thing to do at this exact point in time? Stop publishing AI research? How would we get all 8 billion people on Earth to agree?

It's the reason why the rapid amount of progress in this field scares me at times. It feels like gradually being crushed under a wall of the inevitable march towards progress. It could be the case that stopping ourselves before it's too late isn't possible.

Sometimes I get the feeling that the laws of nature will eventually destroy or severely impact any lifeform that gains too much of an understanding about the world. For example, in some other universe it might be possible to survive X more decades if the laws of physics weakened the effects of nuclear war just enough for civilization to recover in a relatively short period of time, but we're stuck with what we have, and that doesn't necessarily map to the long-term survival of a highly intelligent lifeform.

It would be a shame if unbounded curiosity would be humanity's undoing. That curiosity is also a part of me, and my family, and my neighbors down the street, and those in the situation room.
Sure, Google at large has a reputation for randomly axing products, but a frequent defense I see in such threads is something like "sure it might kill consumer products, but GCP is a different thing aimed at Enterprise that wouldn't do that". (I say that I see this argued, not that I hold the position myself.)
Fair enough, I suppose. I immediately thought of (what I consider to be) excessive lockdowns and enforcement in countries like Australia, but I can see how you went to masks.
It's hyperbole, sure, but we know what they mean.

But I do reject the concept of 3 days a week not being an absolutely huge impact on your life, depending on your circumstance. It's life altering for a huge number or people. Others It's fine, or preferred.
Mailgun and Postmark are both pretty good.
I’m not planning on ever working for anyone else, ever again; whether in an office, or WFH. That said, I work harder, these days, at my standing desk, in the corner of my living room, than I ever did in an office.

WFH is not a magic panacea. I know a number of folks that WFH, and it’s damn near impossible to get together with them, because their jobs own their asses. They are young, and don’t mind (yet). They seem to be on Zoom calls, all day, every day.

Wait until they have kids, though…

Many folks are not able to maintain discipline, on their own, in their home. I know folks that go to co-working spaces, or even libraries (only if they don’t have a bunch of Zoom meetings).

Others actually get depressed, because of the lack of social interaction. They need to be around others.

For myself, neither of the above apply. I could happily be a hermit, and am seriously self-disciplined. WFH would work great for me.

The problem is that I have gotten used to not having others crap all over my work, and that can happen in a remote environment, every bit as easily as in the office.

It’s not “one size fits all,” which is difficult for companies of a certain size, to handle. Modern HR is built around a model, where no one is an individual, and the same rules and structure apply to everyone. That’s difficult, in distributed workplaces.
I’m happy to blame the OS vendors for not creating a useable base env, I think that’s one of the core tenants for an OS and not providing it is a problem. It may be easier and may push an ideological agenda but I don’t think it’s the right thing to do.
> Another solution to your commuting problem is find a job that is closer to your place

A solution that may depend on first resolving the housing crises in many tech hub cities.
Sundar recently said that GOOG hired a ton of people in recent years but earnings have not kept up. There is apparently a productivity crisis. I predict that Silicon Valley is switching to 5 days/week in the office by next year.
A public cloud exists to serve majority usecases, not to provide you with all the options. High speed, low latency network block io is probably not a common need at this point in time.
We must have very different office experiences. I only go in for 6 hours or so with an hour for lunch. My co-workers are nice and the commute is short. I could understand if you like working from coffee shops and such, but working from literal home basically puts you under house arrest.
If you make your warranty terms perfectly clear you will be fine, there is nothing stopping you from going above and beyond the terms at your own discretion.

You would have issues if your warranty said "we will cover you for (random thing plucked out of the air) battery replacements for the first 2 years" but would only replace batteries for your whales as you are in breach of contract with your non-whales.

You have to stick to what you agreed to with your customer in your warranty terms, but you are free to go beyond those terms at your own cost as you wish as customers were aware of your terms at time of purchase.
I think you’re saying that to get the most value from remote work, ICs have to move to low cost areas. That’s asking a lot from people who left their home towns (or home countries) to live in a software hub. But it’s a non sequitur anyway, since basically nobody seems to want to go back to the office, regardless of where they live.
You may be overlooking the larger point, it is just one thing: monopolization. If you control the defaults you win, as long as it doesn't suck too bad.

Why did IE so quickly destroy paid browser market then languish for so many years? Because they had a lock on desktop market share. Google and Apple just have to be mediocre because they own the hardware, services, and/or distribution.

Mozilla cannot take from other business arms to bankroll its browser. It has to sell defaults, ads, or find other markets.
Productivity is hard to mature, and the more senior someone is, the more their job involves communication vs production. Communication in person is different, so while companies can be remote, and that can work well, the prices sometimes paid are subtle and hard to see/measure.
You’re right, they mention Mandrill in the article.

I didn’t realise they’d discontinued it. I remember there being an uproar some years back when they ditched the free tier and made entry level pricing $20/mo.
Perhaps not as big as others, but Airbnb.

https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anyw...
Wait...are you asking me to believe in thinking meat!?
sorry, not familiar with an Auth API. About 5 years ago I worked at a company that used their API, but we just used it as a service for sending texts to specific numbers. (And mostly we used different services, because it was more expensive than our other options)

Do we know that Signal was using the Twilio Auth product and not something custom on top of Twilio?
It would be nice to have some photos
> Since then it has developed a fault whereby the phone crashes immediately as soon as I switch the wifi kill-switch on. Just instant black screen, nothing happening.

Heh, I have never seen or heard of anyone with that issue? You may want to contact their support and ask about it. They are pretty good about helping out with those things.
For what it's worth, I replied to you above with numbers showing it's even more MSM than that in CA.

But on testing it feels to me we are making the same mistakes as covid.

I've had this cold/run off gunk for weeks. Longer than what is normal from allergies.

My Dr. told me I need two lesions to get a test.

Which is like saying you need to have been in Wuhan and have severe cold like symptoms.

The pox are pretty unique looking... Especially if you've had recent intimacy.

IDK maybe we sohuld bring back I. Am. Not. An. Epidemiologist (IAMAE) but wouldn't it be better - if our supply is limited - to test people who might have been exposed, so they can quarantine before they get pox and then contact trace.

Probably non-pox spread, but if you have those sores it's pretty noticeable ...
Let me make this clear: if the data is stored in a way that Signal's service cannot decipher it, then it's not collected by any reasonable definition of collected". In order for Signal to collect it they would have to obtain it, which they don't, and can't, do.

This term isn't just some loose word to be thrown around and abused on message boards. If we take your definition of collected where handling encrypted data is collecting it, then "the internet" collects all data. Uh oh.

What signal does is route encrypted messages between principals in a system. That's all they do. They don't collect personal information. Read their subpoena responses, they publish all of them.
I mean, it’s not some unique problem of counterfactuals, right? It doesn’t seem like counterfactuals have some unique epistemological status. You can use reason to propose and criticize counterfactuals the same as any other kinds of explanations.
> if WINE is an emulator why isn't Linux or GNU?

They... are? I mean for that matter Intel/AMD instruction sets are CISC emulators on top of RISC silicon.
I had to abandon an email address for similar reasons. I added a mailto link on my website and within weeks started to notice some spam. I then removed the mailto link and replaced in the format of, "me [at] domain [dot] com" but it didn't help much.

Eventually I created a new email address and just used that all high priority stuff that I needed to read. All was good for a while but then a couple of companies that have my email address got hacked and I guess my info must have been sold because since then I've started receiving spam emails again. It's manageable at the moment, but I wonder if there will again come a time that I have to start over with a new email address.
If you don’t like it, there’s the door? That’s a terrible solution to a problem. The my way or the highway approach assumes there is no room for growth or understanding of other positions. This is the root of no-compromise.
SMS isn't an app as well, neither is Email.

But you're right, the site is pretty bad for Matrix
Plus you have to luckout on developing a product that the existing capitalists won't just extinguish. So much of success is having the right product at the right time. The fact that facebook got big was partially because there was no major media social network that could buy politicians and advertising and outright buy out competitors before they've ever gotten too large to be a threat. Now there is, facebook assumed that role by growing to that size having no solid competitors, and that opportunity for new mark zuckerbergs making facebooks is probably closed off.

If a new EV company appeared today, founded by some rag tag college grads versus someone who was already rich, what are the odds it gets legs and runs? I bet zero. I bet it gets bought out by an existing competitor that can afford to navigate all the byzantine regulations they themselves penned to defend their niche in this industry. That's even the working model many startup founders have, to create just enough of a coherent product to get bought out by a larger fish and not have to deal with maintaining or expanding that product.
I thrive during remote work and don't like spontaneous cooler conversations.

Does this make me unemployable?
You update Wine to fix game A, and it breaks game B. Or something small is broken in a game, so you try to update to fix it.
I sort of have sympathy with this, given the conditionality which was ?explicit? in the contract to sale: They can't say "oh, nobody knows" having signed to a process to show what they think as office bearers of the enterprise about the question.

I should add that from a personal perspective I tend to "a plague on both their houses" but this specific judgement to me at least, makes sense. I kind of still hope Musk looses his shirt on his loose tongue, in the sale.
> I would prefer that they fix their problems instead. They have 800 employees. I don't want those people to lose their jobs.

This thinking is how one rationalizes "bailing out" companies which have objectively failed in the market and should suffer the consequences.

Never has it been so easy to form a business and employ people. Gone are the days of a business being some kind of precious thing worth preserving because forming one is so involved.

Let the failures experience negative consequences, it's how we improve as a society.
If correlation does not imply causation, does that mean corporate productivity might correlate with, but not cause, profits?
Marketing does influence behavior. However, reward loops don't need marketing, just like heroin doesn't need marketing. I've sank 100s of hours into idle games that look like a spreadsheet and have 0 marketing budget.
Probably public. In NJ, you get snail mail solicitations when you register stuff at the DMV.
Yes, one can always imagine such a scenario. However, more often than not, real discovered vulnerabilities (that is, vulnerabilities in the real world, not some hypothetical situation) seem to exploit permissive memory modification in C/C++. In the scenario you describe, even discovering the vulnerability would require deeply understanding the application logic. In the vulnerability discussed here, simply fuzzing was enough to discover the vulnerability because it was easy to detect the invalid memory access.
I’ve done the same, and there have been a dozen or so online shops, usually smaller-sized ones, for whose associated custom addresses I’m receiving spam. I don’t think they are selling their data, rather, they are getting hacked by third parties.

There’s also cases like Dropbox who had a data breach a few years back, and for whose associated addresses I’m receiving some spam since.
I did. I waited 3 months to get it and really needed a new one. But like I said it's not something to see in a new product
thank you for feedback
I've had multiple record scratch, conversation dies moments discussing my utter dislike of open plan offices to managers.

Some simply do not understand that it doesn't work for a large number of people.

Detest it, I get no work done, my stress goes through the roof and I'm constantly bothered by people chatting/noise, distractions in my sightlines etc.

Basically have to put on noise cancelling headphones and find a seat in the corner, what's even the point then?

Thank christ for WFH.
Since 2005 I have been using unique randomly generated email addresses for every retailer, rebate, forum, SaaS, etc. Out of these ~550 unguessable addresses I have deactivated ~15 due to security incidents on the other end. Notables from this short list:

- digikey.com (Feb. 2021)

- gamasutra.com (Jun. 2017)

- buydig.com

- kickstarter.com (May 2017)

- seagate.com (2016)

Of course this doesn't include the addresses I have had to disable because companies either started sending me "legitimate" promotional emails I did not request or they did not respect my unsubscribe requests (I believe this is what we used to call "ham").
Rewriting the Bible in 0’s and 1’s (1999)
I have to think they’re going to either give key devs/engineers more flexibility than this or they’re going to lose large groups of staff except for those who are there because they really like working for Apple as a company.

Anyone there who views it as just another job (even if it’s one they enjoy) who is significantly inconvenienced by longer commutes or the high price of living locally and the degraded work/life balance has got to be eyeing their options. Even a pay cut to go elsewhere is moot if it means you can live in better & cheaper accommodations in a location of your choosing.

3 WFH days a week is what my current employer allows for any dev/it/non-customer-facing roll and my workplace absolutely hates hates hates the idea of WFH. Pre Covid it was banned, for everyone for every reason. They even fought it on “undue hardship” grounds when it was requested as an ADA accommodation. Now they’ve changed because they realize that their ideological opposition to it will (and has) hurt them as they forced people going back to the office. We lost roughly 1/3 of tech-oriented staff before operations degraded to such an awful state that they changed. I lost multiple candidates for a position on my team.

I view this purely as a cynical move by Apple to help decrease headcount the way other tech companies are doing and because they’ve clearly not liked WFH in general and know that a cooling job market gives employees fewer options.

These moves may even obtain in the short term, but all job markets are cyclical and employee expectations are not going to return to pre-Covid mentality. In the medium term of 2-3 years they’ll simply gain a reputation of being a bit more worker & WFH hostile in the marketplace at the same time the most people and especially top talent have no end of options that will give them the work environment freedom they desire. And when the job market heats up again they’ll have a harder time recruiting, even if they change their policy. It will be harder to trust the commitment to flexible scheduling & work location.

Or maybe I’m wrong, I’m not high level executive with an eye on long term labor market & “human capital management” (awful term) and I’m I know there’s smarter people than me at Apple, likely some included in making this decision, but my non expert opinion gained through a bit of anecdotal experience and armchair observation of peers and trends indicates it’s a bad decision made with short-term thinking only.
A standing desk is a must. It makes me more productive because my body doesn't fall apart from sitting all day, so if I am in the zone I can stay there but just switch to standing and back. Previously, I needed to go on walks.

My body requires this in my late 20’s.

Every workplace should provide reimbursement for a standing desk and floor mat imo.
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/firmware-password-p...

> For users who want no one but themselves to remove their firmware password by software means, the -disable-reset-capability option has been added to the firmwarepasswd command-line tool in macOS 10.15. Before setting this option, users must acknowledge that if the password is forgotten and needs removal, the user must bear the cost of the logic board replacement necessary to achieve this.
Oh? It seems one becomes a taxpayer at about $12k or so.
It seems that someone at $20k is well over that.

Do people on the low end of the tax scale not deserve to be educated?
Unfortunately not, because it was over the phone.
If you are able to hypothesise a lemma and sort-of see it confirmed in the axioms, you get an amazing feeling of empowerment. If you think you see a corollary, it only grows. The problem comes when you forget that not all things are either lemma, or easy to derive from axioms, especially if you only partially understood them. The path to hell is paved with good intentions.

So the "little knowledge is a dangerous thing" idea, is big in this. Learn 1+1 is 2. learn 2+2 is four. Do not understand that "two apples plus two apples is four apples" didn't mean all the apples are equal size, now feel unhappy when somebody has a bigger one..