skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bunch of middle managers desperately trying to justify their jobs.

I'm never going back to working from an office. It's a gigantic waste of my time, my energy and my money. Distributed teams for life.
You’re right. The 2 days a week was already too much.
Ah ah. Another one eating Mozilla's revenue big time!!!

They all talk experience but never the numbers being paid.

The solution is not a well paid employee! It's an employee that likes what it does, no mater the money
Apple hardware engineering probably does involve a good amount of in-person work.

As far as software goes, Apple's entire culture of secrecy and very top-down approach to decision-making negates the whole "water cooler conversations lead to innovation" meme. Steve Jobs' "serendipitous personal encounters" placement of bathrooms to facilitate conversations was done at Pixar, not at Apple.
You're missing the part where maybe they want some people to quit right now. IBM would do this with employees that had been working from home for years, that they had even encouraged to work from home. All the sudden, they would say 'hey - we've decided that we should be an in-office department now' - so pack up from Colorado and see you in Poughkeepsie Monday! Don't like it? Well you can always quit...
Essentially the hash of the round number is the encryption key and the randomness that gets generated at that round number (in the future) is the decryption key
that's running it directly on musl. gcompat is more like a passive adapter which works except you need to know if the device you're plugging in actually supports 240V, which most stuff does nowadays but when it doesn't it explodes horribly.
Ahahah, definitively. Where's the challenge otherwise? The PoC was ready since almost 8 months sitting in a branch of drand/kyber, and the Go tlock library since a month or so and it would have been enough if it weren't for the DEF CON presentation that made a web-demo more appealing for people to try it out :P
They're recommending ways for everyone to make useful comments to the FTC (and talking personally about their problems with bluetooth), not telling the person they're replying to that their comment was not useful.
Horribly frustrating.

It seems SES or mailgun are the primary options these days.
Depending on the size of your cluster, scaling out the apiservers is not necessarily cheap as the watch caches need to be initialized which puts load on etcd. Generally speaking, it's probably better to scale the apiservers vertically rather than horizontally.
>I think some people (like me) are better in-person managers than remote managers. And that's why the quality of remote work is spotty or so many managers want people back in house.

Then learn to be a better manager rather than making a whole bunch of people miserable to save yourself the hassle of improving.
Huh? We've been asked for our experience and that was mine. I feel strongly that if I were using fedora or debian that experience would be strikingly similar.

Gnome vs kde (and there's /plenty/ of other options) is a choice, make it. Done. No further issues. And as a happy gnome guy I'm very sure KDE is excellent and will serve well.

deb vs rpm. That choice is made when you choose your distro, never to be revisited or cared about again. Likewise pulseaudio, systemd are chosen when you chose your desktop and distro respectively and you don't have to think about them on your laptop again. X vs Wayland - whatever comes with your distro you use if you're even aware of it.

But yes you can complicate it all as much as suits you if you have the need or want to do so which you basically can't with apple, so... And your knowledge then translates to the pi or other SBC so that's pretty cool too. And to your servers or ones you work with for money. This is not a negative imho.

Go to any kernel conference and you'll see all kinds of laptops for sure, some hilariously eccentric. Linus used a mac 15 years ago too (powerpc iirc). Yet you'll see Thinkpads are always, clearly and obviously the most commonly used by a large margin unless things have changed dramatically during pandemic times, which I kind of doubt.

Anyway I bought a T480s second hand for peanuts, dumped ubu on it and have been contemplating its beauty and utility since. Apple gear is a _much_ bigger sysadmin headache for me (and it isn't close) but might be less so for you if that's what you know and understand. This is /my/ experience of it.

Linux on the laptop in 2022 is flipping great. Shhhhh, don't tell.
There is also a lot of pressure from local governments to get companies to force people back to work as the businesses built up around large biz centers suffer if everyone works from home (no one eating out for lunch, going to beers after work, getting coffees, getting dry cleaning, etc etc)
It's an artifact of undertesting and restricted access to testing. In Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, they clearly have seen and documented its spread via airborne particles to any sex of people for decades now: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01686-z It's silly how quickly people have ignored all the data about it from Africa because it seems to be inconvenient.

The MSM community is the first major non-African cluster just like the Wuhan market was the first major cluster for COVID-19. People saying it's not a threat to the non-MSM community right now were like people who said "oh it won't spread outside China" to COVID-19 in January 2020. The virus doesn't care about your sexual preference. If you have the right cell receptors and come in contact with it, it will attack and infect.
Five Core Concepts – Celestia (LazyLedger) White Paper
Maybe it depended on use but I had this 2012 mbp that would be shoved into a backpack with heavy textbooks for 7 years before graduating to a lighter packing in the backpack. Never had issues, but the 2020 intel macbook air I bought that just sat on my desk during covid did develop those imprints within a few weeks it felt like.
Round numbers are tied to a date time in a loose sense that each participant should be emitted a share for every time period since the genesis. A single node emitting its shares early or late wouldn't affect the network - only a threshold number of nodes doing so
If Wish did cloud services.
Same. Part of me feels as though inviting companies to apply is their way of simply getting startups to use their system. Not sure how I feel about them at this point.
For me wfh has been something like the unpleasant social dynamics of a high school cafeteria, as opposed to the focused learning environment of the chemistry classroom. I don’t miss the commute, but I miss the collaboration. Some companies will benefit, probably by lowering compensation, but overall I think productivity drops for teams. Some individuals win, but many lose, such as those with small children, or small apartments with two working adults etc, so I do not accept the workers’ rights argument.
> or more fully-equipped Tesla repair facility.

Correct. There was no authorized repair available in Tucson. The mobile windshield repair service declined to touch it. There was a possible repair in Phoenix (130 miles) but it wasn’t certain.

Correct re Southern California. He drove it back though. The rest of the family went back in a separate vehicle.
Are you familiar with their API? We use their SMS auth service at my employer. Twilio is the one composing the outbound message including auth code. The API caller is not providing Twilio with an auth code and phone number. Twilio 100% knows which portion of the outgoing SMS is the auth code.
Side note: if you’re an engineer that implements your sign up to force email from a “real domain”, screw you. I’ve run into multiple sites that force you to have a Gmail, Yahoo, or whatever else account and it’s obnoxious. It does nothing. Stop.
It works by relying on identity-based encryption to encrypt plaintext that cannot be decrypted until the signature of a specific message is revealed. The League of Entropy is signing its beacons every 30 seconds and so acts as a reference clock to provide the signatures on time.
Clear "Correlation does not imply causation" case. The fact that people stayed more time at home implied they consumed more of everything online and accelerated digital services adoption making companies related with digital services sell more, plus less expenses (no travel, less expenses in facilities) made higher profits. Remote work correlating with Higher profits is a correlation not a cause afaik.
Lately I've been pretty happy with Jami. It's still a little unpolished, but it's been good to me so far.
not to mention saving at least 1 - 2 hours each day in a commute, i commuted to east bay from palo alto and dear god i wanted to die everyday.
>without [...] tracking

of the ios apps they listed:

apollo: has anonymous analytics

narwhal: has "Usage Data Advertising Data" under "Data Used to Track You" and "Data Linked to You", has anonymous analytics/usage/crash logs, and uses your device id

not exactly escaping much tracking here.
Seamless back end/front end communication with code generation
True workers' rights would be allowing everyone to choose, at least on a team-by-team basis.
I wanted to support firefox but when I first read this a whil eback it made me lose all sympathy and support for Mozilla. As long as she's the head, I won't be using their services and products
You’re angrily lashing out at strawmen to justify why the lookup key is constrained to a phone number. That does not need to be bound to a phone number, it could be an identifier someone just types in.

What you’re arguing for is the recovery mechanism to get back online when you lose your private key, which is totally unrelated and could be solved independently for people who choose to give a phone number vs those using an email or some other arbitrary identifier.
There probably won't be any new high-performance cores supporting AArch32. It's already gone from Cortex-X2, Cortex-X3, Cortex-A715.
A quick google suggests that if you want your tank to have working guns and/or turret you need a Federal Destructive Device Permit, which includes a background check and ATF approval.
My company mandated return to office two days a week.

I quit and landed a better job that’s remote and with location-independent pay.

Working from an office is fine for some. Make it optional.

Lots of companies are still hiring. I encourage you to see what’s out there and ask interviewers if roles can be made remote.

Commuting is an expensive, time-consuming, and wasteful activity. Working from an open office was, for me, a source of near constant low level background stress. It felt unnatural, and I couldn’t work as well. Now, remote, I can deliver more quality work with less burnout. I am also feeling healthier.
Okay, so hardware engineers can work from the office. Having a single set of rules for everyone else that doesn’t need to come in is something I don’t agree with.
I got my first Zojirushi rice cooker over 20 years ago. The only reason I'm on my second is that my ex-wife claimed it in the divorce, she's still using it. I'm still using my "new" 12 year old model.
The OP literally quotes Craig!
I have one of the last 16” intel macs and god I wish it was built like the 17” ones. Cleaning the screen terrifies me because the thing is so fragile. Not to mention how my previous screen had the coating get messed up from using glasses cleaner on it once.
We're the IRC generation, just ping me with a silly image if you want a casual chat.
Many assumptions in your statement: people are fully capable with self evaluation of their own productivity and companies aren’t bringing people back because of some cost associated with remote work. Apple, in this case, is making people come back to justify their super expensive and ridiculous new campus.
It's not consensus per se - each node releases a share of a secret and if any node gains a threshold number of shares, they can use interpolation to generate the signature and thus the randomness. Different nodes could even collect a different set of shares to reach the threshold and they'd still generate the same signature
How you know it was not anecdotical due to switching workspaces and it is not regressing to normal?
I'm pretty happy with Twilio SendGrid.
> incredulous for a windshield replacement.

I thought so too. That’s when I started noticing Teslas around town with cracked windshields, heheh.
Stack-based VMs are more common than just the JVM. Python and Ruby's bytecodes are stack-oriented. Stack machines are also still common for compilers where "good enough" code is acceptable. As you say, it's relatively easy to write a code generator for a stack machine.
200M users/yr does not sound unrealistic to me given the network effects of Signal. I'm certainly not suggesting that's the actual rate - but I'd be willing to believe it's within an order of magnitude.

Here's an article from last year mentioning 50M+ downloads in 10 days. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hsVnnQ...
In a technical blog or dashboard I like to see

1) avg mean (for throughput estimates),
2) p50 (typical customer / typical load),
3) p90 / p99 / p99.99 (whatever you think your tail is)
4) p100 (max, always useful to see and know, maybe p0).

Or throw in a histogram or kernel density estimate, sometimes there are really interesting patterns.

I’ve never seen a technical blog give such traffic or latency details though.

Edit: reading other comments, please do not read this as diminishing this blog post or Discord, great clear writing and impressive solution to an interesting problem.
I fully agree. Sometimes the information I want to convey is a lot longer than the IM input field, and I'd rather dump it all in an email (which I can compose and add images to, and even edit parts of to clarify), rather than deliver the info 1 paragraph at a time.

If the other side has questions, sure they can chat, etc, but imagine if they have a question after the 1st paragraph, in chat they'd ask and interrupt my train of thought, in an email, chances are, that question will be answered a few paragraphs later anyway...
Onboarding new members on a drand network is fairly easy: there only needs to be a threshold of nodes doing a resharing ceremony and all nodes get new shares and new nodes can be onboarded like that. It's not handled by tlock or timevault, it's on the League of Entropy side and is how drand works. More details are in https://drand.love/docs/cryptography/
Interesting fact you obtain when you create a GP search engine - getting a reasonable results for “gmail” and “google news” is not trivial )
I'm still enjoying using Mailgun. No problems there so far... knock on wood.
okay but if you're an executive surely cutting the entire office budget would be a massive win for the business?
From another comment: “Besides calculating verifiably random numbers, the computers will also decrypt content for anyone if you send it content encrypted to their public keys and the encrypted content contains a time range that includes the present.” That sounds like decryption would fail when the present time is after the specified time range.
> ... had successfully changed the password, but in the case below, failed to access the account due to the second-factor authentication...

Why wasn't two factor authentication required to reset the password? This is Security 101: Greater risks need greater authentication.
Well as I recall 10 years ago we would use keyboard covers , and those caused imprints, but the keyboard alone never did. I cant imagine you could even use a keyboard cover today. Kind of just worse design all around on these laptops.
i mean if you live in a super expensive area (bay area) and you get to WFH from your shitty apartment/condo/house that you barely afforded, then i think you aren't getting the full benefits of WFH.
I'd be willing to bet you've not given your email to any political candidate or campaign.
Exactly. A malicious employee could login as any user to popular services like WhatsApp, Telegram and others that are SMS auth only, simply by knowing which endpoint to hit to kickoff an auth session initiation. I hope I am not understanding this exploit correctly. This would be a massive failure on Twilio part to allow employees access to the auth code.
Your employer pays you 100% salary for your PTO and pays 100% salary for any bank holiday on the calendar. How do you imagine requiring an employer to pay for your “vacation” only so you go shop around and work somewhere else. Do you even need “vacation“?

I see technical issues: Every day off has a direct cost to it, where does the employer get a person to replace you while you are on your “vacation“? Who foots the bill for the search and training of your replacement?
Who’s paying the health insurance? Who’s paying the accident insurance? What happens if you have an accident while on another job during your PTO? If you have a company car, are you going to use it to get to the other job? An employer has a right to request you back to work in exceptional circumstances. What if you are on the other job and the employer requests you back? Are you going to come back rested after your “vacation”? Is it even beneficial for you to work more from the tax perspective? Who gets to decide which PTO is the “real vacation”, and which is the “I go shop around vacation”?

If you’re on minimum wage, how much are you going to make more in those 5 or 10 days? In the US $7.25 x 80? How much will you take home after tax? How many people on a minimum wage work full time and have full time PTO so that they could really benefit from having even more PTO to do some extra work?
I literally composed my post excluding the word "crank", because I felt "unpopular, unconvincing hypothesis" was a less judgemental way of phrasing it, and one that focused on the idea, not the ideator, but you went ahead and used crank anyways

anyways, the threshold is likely when the hypothesis becomes convincing enough to a sufficient proportion or number of experts in the field
Latest comment is very telling at the level of apologism that goes on in Apple's userbase:

> Aug 15, 2022 3:01 PM in response to Iau88

> Isn't this what happens when you shut any laptop when an object is sitting on the keyboard?

Not when it's imperceptibly small, people are not putting bricks in their laptops.
The cheaper and easier this becomes, the more likely it is to be weaponized at scale.

...and the more people will be aware of and stop believing in the "fake reality".

Ensuring this technology is only available to a tiny subset of the population is to essentially give all the power of distorting reality to that tiny group of people.

In fact, I suspect that is precisely the reason.
Drove by a 108 megawatt, 765 acre installation last week (looked it up later). It really didn’t look much different than the surrounding farm land. In fact you could see further than you could with corn crops. The panels didn’t come all the way to the roadside and rows were perpendicular to the road, so you could see straight through.

If solar panels were more efficient and mass produced in the 1990s, I have to imagine solar farms would have replaced most tobacco farms after the buyouts.
"Findings" can sometimes be more appropriate as well if the context is the result of research. I agree with you that "learnings" isn't ever the best word to use, but its replacement can vary.
I can, because I go into office twice a week now. The days I am least productive are the ones I go in, because I lose more than the two hours of door to door commute every day. It is the fact that I lose my most productive hours of the day in waking up, getting ready, fixing a breakfast, getting myself to the office and having to small talk with people before FINALLY I can work.
> This is exactly what makes it "your problem".

No, it’s still signal’s problem too. There is no reason to bootlick here.

> Signal isn't perfect, but it's got very close to that,

It’s really far from it. Being tied to SMS and phone numbers is a nearly fatal flaw.
I don't disagree, but it is important to have options to match various use cases. Even few years ago, it would not be feasible just in terms CPU power to run another OS on top of Android.

So while it does not address some issues ( and one could argue create some new ones ), it is overall a positive development. We want more people looking at it from different angles and saying something along the lines of:

"God damn it. The current status quo is not working for me. Let me change it."

I applaud such effort in that space. Fake Android/Apple choice aggravates me.
Personal productivity isn't the same as organizational productivity. This is one of the key things at the heart of the WFH discussion. It's entirely possible that you personally wrote more lines of code, but the team still fell behind in products shipped. This could be due to many different factors. One easily identifiable one is that while good employees might be more productive WFH, poor performers are even more poor when WFH, and it becomes much more difficult to actively manage/coach/mentor poor performers when they are remote.

There's many more metrics too, like attrition, or poor onboarding experience for new hires, or inability to coordinate across teams (sure you're producing more personal output, but is it the right output?)

Organizations are more than individuals working in isolation. They're coordinated masses of people that have to work together, and what is best for one person's personal productivity may not be best for the organization's overall productivity.
They leak metadata to the operators of the server. So does Signal, albeit anchored to SGX nodes they pretend they cannot access. Signal also has phone numbers making even worse.

With matrix at least you can pick a server operator you trust to provide your metadata to, or host a server yourself.
I'm not sure how much it would cost to hire a translator for an hour or two, but you'd probably still come out ahead.
> Is the fear of "people selling your email to spammers" a modern myth, or are spam filters that good?

My experience with generated one-per-contact addresses is similar. I think pretty much 100% spam came from the ones I use for Usenet.

In my case, mail destined for these addresses bypasses all anti-spam checks, so I know it's not the spam filters: there are none.

(Filtering mail destined for generated addresses is counterproductive; you often need them in situations where maximum deliverly reliability is paramount. Plus, such a system is a complete anti-spam scheme; it doesn't need to be combined with any other.
Allow for a 3% down payment, but add in a requirement for PMI until you’ve hit a sufficient amount of equity, raising the cost of the front end of the loan.
Did a commute that took that long for a year, by rail. They really need to finish electrifying Caltrain.
> (as seen by the other replies on this thread of people spending multiple hundreds to repair their screens)

I'd rather buy a 500 EUR non Apple laptop than pay the 490 EUR I was quoted to repair my M1 MacBook Air's screen. I mean: I get it fixed, than what? It's still a prone-to-crack screen I get.

And there's no way I'm thinking: "Oh well, rather than pay 490 EUR to fix the screen, I'll buy another M1".

Well... I considered just buying a new M1: but not after having read about all the people having similar issues. Now I know I wasn't just unlucky and I know it wasn't my fault.

I'm not interested in a fragile laptop.
No, of course, but if the comment was a response to the earlier one it may better have been posted there.
So, effectively this encrypts a message for a public key whose corresponding private-key owner promises to only decrypt it after the specified time. Except that the owner here is a distributed network, so the promise can only be broken by a majority of the network.

The main assumption here is that said network will still be operational, publicly accessible and non-compromised at decryption time.