skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> open to suggestions on what makes your life better as a remote worker

Provide good networking equipment free-of-charge. Powerline adapters are cheap, will work pretty much everywhere, don't require running wires and while they won't give you the fastest bandwidth, whatever bandwidth they end up achieving will usually remain stable with little packet loss. For people with laptops, give them APs to connect to the powerline adapters and to place in every room they plan to be working in.

Network connectivity is paramount in a remote setting and it will always amaze me how otherwise-smart software engineers put up with terrible connections and have no clue where to even begin attacking the problem (they'll often blame the ISP even though the problem is in their LAN in the majority of cases). An unstable connection is horrible when it comes to calls/screen-sharing/etc as "modern" conferencing software is utterly terrible at handling interruptions (despite something like TeamSpeak from over a decade ago did it better even on computers orders of magnitude slower than now).

Same for audio equipment. I'm lucky enough that AirPods and MacOS work well enough generally so if most of your employees use Mac they are a good option but otherwise Jabra also makes good wireless headsets that connect via USB (and handles the wireless itself with a proprietary protocol, so no Bluetooth shenanigans) so make those available if needed.
A pros on Android is that we can (somewhat) escape from bad UI by changing a device. I'm fine with Android 12 because mine is OneUI.
Actually that's the opposite.

Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes running commercial Unix
Show HN: Streaming chunked AEAD cryptography [pdf]
> Luckily, the Dotbot clearly identifies itself in the User-Agent header, and they have a working support email, so after a five month communication in a ticket I discovered the reason.

I laughed at the "five month", then realized it is actually impressive that OP got any response at all. What a time to be alive.

Also, why not just ban the offender?
Yes, this is the crux of the matter.

Forget the ad-hominem "he's a known crank" arguments.

He raises valid questions in his article, if he's a crank, then refute his facts or conclusions.
by definition it does...
after 24 hours, that gives other people time to be the guinea pigs to run the program first, so that Defender will recognize it by the time you run it
2nd rule of RSS Club is “Don’t Share on Social Media”.
You are extrapolating quite a bit from this decision. Just because the judge is allowing discovery on this particular issue, that doesn't mean the whole case rests on said evidence. It would likely have to prove some severely fraudulent actions for it to make much difference in this case.
This is explored in the Book of Jonah, thousands of years ago.
ScyllaDB only supports XFS due to its requirement on aio.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
I think "floatovoltaics" are definitely a growth option with lots of upside - especially if located on man-made bodies of water e.g. dammed lakes (which often will have sufficient infrastructure already in place).

https://thesolarlabs.com/ros/floating-solar-farms/
HN and in-person meetups are both a good start.

It's sort of like dating. Fit and alignment are everything.
This is a pain on Windows. I can't use an app in different language easily, like by just run `LANG=en_US.UTF-8 xeyes`.
They've been on WeFunder for a while trying to crowdfund operations.

I did not invest.
James web can see in the infra-red. Light from long ago is shifted into this band.

Hubble could not see as far into the infra-red.
> Are GCE's SSDs particularly error prone?

Yes, incredibly error prone. Bad sector reads were observed at an alarming rate over a short period - well beyond what is expected if you were to just buy an enterprise nvme and slap it into a server.
It won the Levchin Prize at Real World Crypto, and is essentially the gold standard for messaging cryptography. People on HN hate its ergonomics. You could reasonably prefer something else, but you can't reasonably call it untrustworthy.
So that means you need to check your emails every 20-40 mins, sort through everything and write replies when required? Sounds like a terrible way to do any sort of focused work.
It might be worth it in certain cases of extreme security requirements, but the implications of what you suggest are severe. For example, you've ruled out the convenience of many operator actions. Instead of being able to change your resolver configs, first you'd have to change the resolver configs in the training environment, deploy a model that permits the old and new behavior into prod, then finally deploy your new configs. The same would be true for other things like timezone database updates. Any kind of external stimulus that changes your application's syscall pattern would require such forethought, and it could be a DoS vector.

Also, I think people underestimate the runtime cost of linux syscall tracing. It's pretty high.
> A "modern" nuclear weapon is much more powerful than the ones we recall.

The nuclear weapons deployed during the 60s and 70s were far more powerful than the ones of today. Instead of multi-megaton yields being the default, now most warheads are in the 100-300kt range. (This is largely due to improved accuracy reducing the size of a warhead required to take out a target) That means 2-3x the damage radius of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs at 10-15kt. (radius does not scale linearly with yield)

> I was under the impression the US nuclear arsenal alone can wipe out humanity.

Even if you assume 1 nuke = 1 city, the US only has ~5k warheads. According to [0], city number 3000 has 141k inhabitants. Now, indirect effects are going to kill a LOT more (no more industrialized agriculture or global supply chains), but that'll still only get you to 99% at most. (And that's in this extremely contrived scenario where it only takes one nuke to kill Beijing, and not a few dozen)

0: https://data.mongabay.com/cities_pop_03.htm
Right wing strategists must love these "leftist" totalitarian safe-space bullies, successfully alienating everyone from a more centrist/moderate viewpoint, destroying careers of people who said ignorant things 10 years ago, while Roe V. Wade and Miranda rights get overturned. They'd be happily winning internet points as democracy fails around them.

They're just as responsible for the issues in America as the extreme right.
Try https://www.indiehackers.com/. Maybe try the meetups, ask this same question there, and mention on your profile there that you are interested in this.

Also mention that you want to do this on Twitter (etc.) and then by just engaging someone might reach out to you. Also look out for people doing the same.
If this is true, then my long wait is over.

I am very interested to learn more about any physicist who is willing to make ontological commitments. Ultimately, such a commitment is to realism - what is the epistemological support?

I strongly doubt the myriad complexities here have been resolved. Or are you proposing a kind of 'natural ontological attitude'?
Maybe I'm the boomer longing for individual/group chats a la MSN messenger 20 years ago.

Since this is relevant to the other discussion going on here: To my knowledge, Microsoft has never banned accounts for using third-party MSN clients; and there were definitely plenty of them back then. I even wrote my own and used it right up until they shut down the servers. MS had updated the protocol many times, but MS being the "good old MS", highly valued backwards compatibility and up to the day they shut down the servers, they still negotiated and worked with one of the very first protocol versions.
safety has improved, but gas mileage for small cars was great. 90'2 and 00's had lots of compacts that got 40+ mpg highway.
Ironically, 1.0 is the one that's the most problematic, because it never shipped in any version of Windows by default.

.NET 4.6 is the version that shipped in Win10 back in 2015. Win11 ships with .NET 4.8. Thus, both OSes can run any apps written for .NET 4.x out of the box. I would expect this to remain true for many years to come, given that Windows still supports VB6.

.NET 3.5 runtime (which supports apps written for .NET 2.0 and 3.0, as well) is also available in Win10 and Win11, but it's an optional feature that must be explicitly enabled - although the OS will automatically prompt you to do so if you try to run a .NET app that needs it.
This seems pretty unacceptable.
Is the word fnord?
If you can afford one the law does not apply and fines don’t matter
A VC-backed corp transitioned into a DAO
I take a bus. Canada pays too little for software to own both a car and a house
Yes, but physics is not colloquial. Most people are unfamiliar with physics.
It was 65k at the time. I live in Canada
Where is the company selling clad (copper or aluminum) steel cookware (dutch ovens, everyday pans, deep frying pans) with the steel part 7.5% thicker than common cast iron pans. Sounds like an untapped market.

I did once melt the hood of a gas grill by putting a piece of steel in it. Held heat so well the cover and front of the grill warped.
Go is the slowest compiled non vm language
Thanks, it's a helpful reminder that we're just a pair of eyeballs / free content generators for Reddit.
No, voluntary would mean she could find someone she wants but she still chooses to be single.
That's a different story, though. The point is that old apps written against .NET Framework still work - you don't have to port them to .NET 5+ to get them to run on Win11.
I'm writing a hobby OS and while I am using the MMU, all of my virtual addresses are actually physical addresses too, but the MMU helps my system crash when I've broken something leading to accessing unmapped memory. If there were no MMU, I'd just have to do things right, or debug strange behavior rather than page faults.
One homicide in a town of 1,800 people would give you a homicide rate of 56 per 100,000. I wouldn’t read into that statistic too much.
Devices we worked with for a project (thankfully not on GCP) are welded shut once built. They are designed to run for years on an internal battery then need to be recycled. They would all be paperweights in this scenario!
Trump now claims FBI agents seized three of his passports during the Mar-a-Lago
Reading notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper
I think it would depend on the context which often depends on what the real risk is. Building 5000 nuclear missiles? Overreaction. Overbuilding flood control systems such that the region has not experienced major flooding in 100 years? Justified preparation. The tell for what is justified and what isn't is through what you can remove from the system and not see any ill effect, like a jenga tower. We've already decommissioned thousands of nukes and the sky didn't fall, so that goes to show all that preparation was useless. Take away flood control systems OTOH and that would probably result in thousands of lives lost before long given the odds of a bad storm in the area. Likewise with pandemic preparations (mentioned in the intro); what are the odds of a pandemic? High, so the preparations are justified.
I guarantee you it makes total sense to the vast majority of readers who know what a jailbreak is.

Similarly, would you be confused if someone said they were going to drive their BMW to work? Or would you play the same pedantic game? "What... how do you drive a company or brand to work?..."
I have been writing software for 26 years. The first ~16 I used Linux exclusively, then Linux and Windows, and recently Windows exclusively.

There's absolutely nothing I'm unable to do on Windows 10, but there are a lot of things I wasn't able to do on Linux.
Ask HN: Which Private Jet service do you use?
How relevant is this book today?
Pretty impressive.

The search results come very fast, but there's some low hanging fruit QOL optimizations as far as I can see, mostly to do with search result ranking.

It doesn't seem to weigh the terms properly, there is some pull toward relevant terms but not as much as I'd expect from BM-25. I also think it doesn't promote results with adjacent terms enough. As a result the relevance of the search results sort of undulate up and down as you go through the results.

The de-duplication also seems non-existent. You can easily get a page full of duplicates of the same two links. You come a pretty long way if you just keep a simple hash of the HTML of each website or whatever.

This is made worse by what I think is a bug where the crawler follows redirects, and reports them as the original URL and not the redirected URL. I actually had the same bug in my crawler when I started out. Nasty anti-synergy with Wikipedia which has a lot of redirect.

These are relatively minor issues that shouldn't be hard to fix.
I agree that it's unpopular on HN. Why is it undeserving of being unpopular? I'm referring to the second part of OP's question.
> Geometric Algebra provides a compelling alternative to quaternions

No it doesn't. Please stop repeating this. Quaternions are literally a part of geometric algebra. His page uses the algebra Cl_{3,0}, whose even subalgebra is Cl_{0,2}, which is the quaternions.

Just to clarify what he's actually saying, because he said it poorly: He's not criticising the quaternions at all. He's criticising a philosophy of the quaternions that goes back to Hamilton: That they are formally scalars plus vectors. He's instead promoting a view that they're formally scalars plus bivectors. You can go from the author's POV to Hamilton's POV by replacing the word "bivector" with "vector" and "exterior product" with "cross product". Mathematically, this replacement constitutes an isomorphism, which shows that the author's algebra is isomorphic to - which for mathematicians means the same as - Hamilton's quaternions. The author's philosophy has the advantage that it shows that the quaternions are a subalgebra of Geometric Algebra. But this is only a different way of talking about the quaternions from Hamilton's. And Hamilton's view isn't even wrong - it leads to the octonions, which the GA approach doesn't - and it doesn't need you to know what a bivector is.
Agreed, ontology is philosophy, not physics. It asks, what kinds of things exist? It straddles the line of the empirical and the conceptual, asking, do 'facts' exist, and can there be 'moral facts'? Here be dragons, and epistemology is the treasure.

Physics reports observations of experiments and theoretical work, but wisely leaves epistemology to philosophers - a hard learned lesson. Einstein was ridiculed for his ontological realism, and the trend has been in the opposite direction ever since.

I am interested in brave physicists who have stood up to the epistemologers, and are willing to make ontological commitments. In my understanding, historically, this attitude poses risks to one's career in physics.
Doing that on any thread (and having showdead turned on) tells you exactly what HN dislikes, and it's surprisingly consistent.
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion.

Sadly nobody called it baader-meinhof paradox.
Exactly. Pre-shared secret out of band.
> I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here.

Always a losing strategy in my experience.
I know. I really wish they had a simple page that explains everything. They've gone to great lengths to be confusing about what they're collecting and how.
There were several complaints about misleading communication when this change rolled out Examples:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

They've never updated their privacy policy to cover their new data collection practices even after requests (see https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...)

The scheme they came up with to store user data in the cloud was described here:
https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

The code is here: https://github.com/signalapp/SecureValueRecovery

This site does a pretty good job of explaining why this isn't a good design:
https://palant.info/2020/06/16/does-signals-secure-value-rec...

Lots of discussion here:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu... and also https://community.signalusers.org/t/sgx-cacheout-sgaxe-attac...

Even more details here:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/wiki-faq-signal-pin-svr-...

The major change was that pins were mandatory initially but the UX was so bad they had to give people a way to opt out of setting a pin. There is no opting out of having your profile/contacts data collected and stored in the cloud though.
When You Talk to a Conspiracy Theorist [video]
Exactly. I'm so tired of this excuse. They need to fix their own intellectual property problems, not bend the entire Linux ecosystem to their world view.
That's not how modern web scraping works
A Cost-Effective Way of Using the Modern Data Stack (I)
If you have basically any species of deer or elk plus anything green growing it's not that uncommon.

Your doctor friend might have been referring to "chronic Lyme" which is a very divisive issue. There are quack docs who will tell you you have it when you don't, there are docs who will angrily tell you there's no such thing, and then there are docs who wince a little a mutter about how there are things we don't know enough about.
The problem is that lawmakers are rarely statisticians and are sometimes even the people not trusting the models because they don't understand them. Someone needs to write up a bayesian form of government and then take over a country.
We are waiting on demand for it. We have a bunch of folks using MQTT on NATS and NGS but no requests yet for MQTTv5 so far.

Once we see legit demand we will make sure it's supported.
It is well for non-specialists to be aware, however, that, while geometric algebra is a real thing, Hestenes's tireless promotion of it as the One True Language of physics is about as appropriate as identifying and anointing the One True Language of programming. One can and should have at one's command as many languages as possible; singling out geometric algebra as the one right language and forgetting the others is as bad as not being aware of geometric algebra at all.
Why not run opnsense on a actual PC for router?
$38M at Stake in Ousted Black Girls Code Founder's Lawsuit Against Nonprofit
Peer review is not the gatekeeper for accuracy
This is the site that I was looking at: https://nationalfirearmsact.com/nfa-regulated-items/destruct..., which seems to spell out the background check as a requirement. It also says you need to be a resident of the US. Am I missing something?
World Building and Alternate Reality Common Lisp
Random flights of fancy from my blog.
you could always become a patent troll, with a portfolio of assorted product improvements you license out
MX Master 3 – DIY alternative
Free software phones are very important.

But judging by this thread, we need more people with guts. So many doubters in here who aren't being useful in any way :)

So - I think I'm going to run NixOS Mobile on a 2nd device (alongside my iPhone) in the next year-ish and provide some guts and elbow grease (PRs incoming!)

Prepare to wish you did the hard thing for the fun of it :D
At this point, seems they’d be better off with colo + own hardware.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Yes obviously when asked to display a file, kitty will read it. But it wont send the file contents on the TTY, so the *program sending the request* cannot read it. Which is what we are discussing here. You are trying to make it seem like the ability of a program to get kitty to read an arbitrary file is a security issue. I suggest you go do the following: strace your editor, then ask it to open /etc/passwd, and then be shocked when you see it doing so in the strace log. Seriously, why am I wasting time replying to you.
Thank you for quantifying that. I was thinking it meant about a 10% chance of default and about a 10% chance of bankruptcy, and I appreciate the correction.

10% or 20% is "concerning" from some points of view, but what I meant was that creditors still think Coinbase is more likely to be in business 5 years from now than to be bankrupt.
Yeah. Now people just statically link the dynamic libraries.
startupschool.org
Is there a distribution of Firefox without any Rust, or experimental overhead? We all know it was an OSS project before there was a company backing it. We don’t need these sjw weirdos, we need a project that focuses on just a functioning core, Gecko and SpiderMonkey. Similar to how the Linux project is just a kernel and people ship their own stuff on top, as they please.

The biggest problems are the lack of people who care and funding. How could a browser be profitable, it’s fucking free. Today that’s Googles endorsement, which is the last company they need to depend on.

How could people be convinced, what is the actual problem with Chrome holding dominance?
Turing completeness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

Church-Turing thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

Is Church-Turing expected to apply to concurrent, quantum computers? To actual quantum physical stimulation, or qubits, or qudits? Presumably there's already a quantum analog
Why do you think that is? It works great here for companies (Nordstrom, Costco, even Walmart)
I don’t really know why, even. I get the account vs phone number argument (though I prefer phone number as it is familiar to regular people in a way that usernames are not) but aside from that it has every feature I could want, and I feel like I am a fairly demanding user. It is is my primary messaging app and I send hundreds of messages a day to my friends, both individually and in group, on my phone and on my desktop.
That only works if you're the person who compiled the application.

A recent example where I ran into this: Cura 5.0+ won't run on Ubuntu 20 because the system libraries on Ubuntu 20 are too old.
I vaguely recall that even in 2-party consent states recording lawlessness is still legal. Are there a y lawyers here who could chime in?
Lol, what? Here is how gentrification works:

Nobody gets removed, they just have to leave. It's a subtle distinction but that's how it happens. Poor people don't own anything. Their furniture is mostly stacks of junk that is so bad that it would be hard or impossible to get someone to accept it for free (this is very nearly a tautology, since the poor person got this furniture for free to begin with, and it's was so bad when they got it that nobody else would give anything for it). They rent. At some point property values are high enough the landlord (or his heir) decides to sell. At the end of the lease, the property is no longer for rent. That's the end of it. However, keep in mind that poor people tend to move every few years regardless. They are right on the edge of falling out of the population of working people who are self sufficient, so it is very common that they end up being evicted, abusing drugs or alcohol (even if just for awhile), or just having too many kids to be able to afford childcare so they can keep working to support themselves. Properties no longer being for rent in some neighborhood has almost no effect on any given poor person who lived in that neighborhood as they are one step above transient anyway.

This isn't an apology, it's just a more accurate description of what happens, I've seen it first hand from the low prestige side of things when I was young.