skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot speak for my employer, but I can speak in general terms that I agree that companies of this size have processes to try to avoid this kind of thing from happening. This is true at Google scale but also true once your company passes a certain size+age, although of course it can continue to mature.

The thing is that these processes don't actually work, because in the end someone is going to do something dumb anyways and you really can't stop them. The same way your processes aren't going to stop an outage, someone is going to correlate data they shouldn't and somehow lack the tact to go "hey maybe I should not be doing this". Often various pressures will make it seem like something they should do. And when they do it they will cost the company an incalculable amount of user trust, to say nothing of the irreversibility of a privacy incident. Someone will do a writeup of it after it is discovered by the press but at that point the damage is done.

(FWIW, I'm not even including the stuff that goes on with executive approval, where they make decisions on how likely they think they are going to be discovered and sued for large amounts of money. Of course this would bypass any policy…but it's usually kept under wraps for obvious reasons.)
Everything is per-user (non-admin).

The entire operation of it is simple but powerful: everything is based on a manifest file [1]. The official manifests are in git repos, but you can also install from a local file or a gist.

Chocolatey's usage of nuget packages while also basically just running the app's normal installer is weird and results in all kinds of situation where versions don't match, chocolately upgrades don't do the expected thing, etc. All these problems just don't happen with scoop (at least not in my years of experience with it).

Scoop apps install to ~/scoop/apps/<appname>/<version>/ and then get a symlink ~/scoop/apps/<appname>/current/, while also getting a ~/scoop/persist/<appname>/. It's just very elegant.

It adds "shims" for any executables in ~/scoop/shims/, and because that's the only directory added to your path (when scoop is first installed), newly added apps "just work" in all your open terminals/apps/etc.

It also seems faster. "scoop install <appname>" and a few seconds later you can use it. Chocolatey usually does the UAC prompt stuff and generally just feels clunky by comparison.

[1] https://scoop-docs.vercel.app/docs/concepts/App-Manifests.ht...
Almost certainly a reference, take it up with Atari https://tetris.wiki/images/6/68/Tetris_%28Atari%29_flyer.jpg
You’re right that was lazy of me. But you got what I meant: transformers.
It wasn’t my intent, but yes that’s vaguely similar. :)
Where is the actual white paper? I couldn't find anything on the site. Which is an instant red flag for me for a website >:(

Edit: link to download the PDF https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021522007122251776/1...
I disagree. At least for the HN crowd who is probably already using data and gut when the data isn’t clear. Its like that meme of what a dumb person saying “trust your gut” the middle of the curve saying “don’t trust your gut” and the smart person saying “trust your gut” again.

I don’t need this writer telling me “actually work is the 2nd most misery generating activity”. Well first off individual variance will dominate there, but even a dumb person will tell you “work sucks”- its again only the middle of the curve that thinks itself into knots like “work is deeply fulfilling, I should enjoy my career” and needs to be told “actually thats wrong”.
The article says there is no criminal case and nobody went to prison. That's weird, right? You've got enough evidence to seize their money, just not enough to prove they committed a crime in court. The company, which has already gone out of business, pleads guilty giving up their right to appeal, which wouldn't help them because they are already out of business, and agrees to a fine, which they can't pay anyway. I think it's much more likely the company plead out to get the legal case over with.

That nobody was convicted of a crime over this is why I wrote the FBI incorrectly accused the company. If the FBI was right, and these were money launderers - where are the criminal charges? The FBI and US attorneys are well and widely known for over charging and coercing people to take pleas - so the guilty plea with no consequences doesn't really carry any weight. What's the evidence?
Fuzz Testing and Fuzz History (2017)
That's not what the article ssys though.. do you really think "everybody else" would have discovered the actions described without any sort of help page?

I think the modern software does not come with the manuals because it simply has severly reduced functionality compared to the old days. For example, when was the last time you had used a navigation software with "avoid area" and "add custom road" features?

There was always a tradeoff between "more features thus more UX complexity" (power user approach) vs "cut features to keep UX simpler" (UX designer approach). Sadly, the designers won.
If you want to avoid the headache of doing basic things in nginx.

Checkout https://caddyserver.com , auto SSL, fast and simple.
I don't hate technology. I'm hesitant to adopt a lot of cutting edge technology because I don't like how intrusive it is, though.
You’re telling me you believe the heads of the FBI have been registering as Republicans for 85 years and been appointed to the role by Republican presidents all as a long running scheme to lull Republicans into believing the FBI was not the secretly Democrat-controlled organization it truly is?
You tapped the button that looks like a book, I'm guessing? It's full height in the "address bar at the top" design.
Thank you for the kind words, and I totally agree with your perspective.
Makes me wonder about copyright when it comes to voice synthesis via AI. Like legally speaking, did they "need" JEJ to sign off on this as opposed to just using his voice as training data?

In the near future, I imagine it'd be easy enough to take a snippet of audio and transfer a celebrity's voice to it, similar to what we can already do to images using StyleGAN or something similar.

Exciting times ahead!
Absolutely, I'd say that's basically guaranteed. Hook 'em, then schtup 'em.
Coworkers who are pleasant to work with make all the difference to me as well. Smooth communication, trust, and a bit of comradery can make meaningless work go by quickly. Politics, micromanagement, and rivalry can make even logging in a chore.
The only possible Revolution I see is not using the DOM. JS + WASM is fast enough, the DOM is not fast enough, or good enough, enough here meaning enough for creating highly dynamic 60FPS experiences. Main issue with leaving it behind is A11Y though.
Never considered that perspective. Thanks!
Awesome! I quite like the trend in note-taking software lately, I'm also currently building a similar obsidian-compatible tool:
https://github.com/tionis/glyph
I wrote 2 watchfaces that run on my Pebble.

Also I modified 3 apps, from their source code on Github.
I reread it in more of a joking tone. Much more pleasant. Sorry for assuming the worst.
How do you explain this?

More importantly, why am I obligated to pay for this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_let...
Pretty much every orginization that is allowed weapons and use of violence against others (with whatever ROEs) as part of their job, there will always be cases of abuse. When it goes unchecked, it becomes systemic.

This is not the same as a corp commiting financial fraud or other non-violent crimes. If a corp is having people killed to cover up, then we can start trying to equate.
you get different amounts of money coming in at different times (investors, loans, revenue from sales) and you have different amounts of money flowing out at different times (paying workers, paying for supplies, equipment...)

double entry bookkeeping not only "checksums" these quantities for errors, but also gives you different snapshots of your business, how much money do you owe in the short term, how much in the long term, on average what's the profit margin, how much tax do you owe this year.

other people can also look at your accounts and check up on random sample pieces of information to ensure it's not all made up.

It creates a clear picture where the raw data is somewhat murky, which enhances trust on many levels.
C'mon! Everybody knows that the Nordost Valhalla 2 Power Cord is far superior than the SRX. It's also only $10,079.99 CAD for 6ft, so it will be less than yours since yours is in USD, saving you money to to buy fridge magnets which will help dampen the magnetic field from any orphan atoms that may leak through.

Also, from the manufacturer's brochure: Unlike conventional power cables, which have propagation speeds that are less than 50% the speed of light, the Valhalla 2 Reference Power Cord has a speed of 91% the speed of light.

[1] https://audiofi.ca/products/valhalla-2-power-cord?variant=34...

EDIT: On a more serious note, check out https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php for real testing, where the dollar store speaker cable performed (surprise!) as well as the fancy cables. The fancy cable company was not happy.
OP article makes a compelling argument that there's an untapped market for faster-than-shipping and cheaper-than-air freight:

> The new airships can carry heavier loads farther and cheaper than helicopters can, with lower emissions than fixed-wing aircraft—potentially zero emissions, if the ships are powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

> To Buerge the aerospace engineer, helicopters seem like a reasonable analogy to the new airships. “I don’t ride on a helicopter with any regularity, and you probably don’t either,” he says. But even though the civilian helicopter market isn’t near the size of the commercial aircraft industry, “I wouldn’t call helicopters an unsuccessful technology, or a technology that doesn’t exist in a serious way.”
I have a small sample size, but I've lived in several dwellings in california with natural gas furnace, natural gas water heater and no a/c. If there were any window units, they were on 120vac.
Thanks! It was well written. Makes sense, I came from Android development and UI/UX is really important to get right the first time.
yeah it kills some nutrients to nuke it but I need some fiber...
It was NEC that started the bit wars with the PC Engine in Japan. They heavily marketed its graphics as 16-bits, to have a quick way to explain the quality improvements over the Famicom.
I think you're right about this that disbanding them goes too far, but we could certainly use significant reform.

In particular, they often use 18 USC 1001 to manufacture crimes and the only evidence supporting a charge may be a written report (an FD-302) that could have been written months after the fact. Their current policy is not to record interviews. I think that needs to be reversed and there should be some materiality requirement to the 18 USC 1001 charges, rather than trying to get someone to slip up. They should also have bodycams when involved in raids or similar activities, same as cops do.

I'm also disturbed at how often they "lose" things like Woods files. I think their case files should be externally managed and backed up and audited by a separate agency who can present "missing" evidence in court from backup, along with records of who tried to delete it, regularly audit case files for things like the missing Woods files that shouldn't be, etc.

I'd do the same for cops, too. Body cameras should send the video to a separate organization that doesn't answer to the cops, so they can't "lose" it. And if they "forget" to turn it on, well, that should be subject to regular audits and should get someone in trouble long before it becomes an issue in a big case.

It's weird, we spend lots of time designing computer systems to support accountability, but there seem to be a lot of things we could do better on that front in law enforcement.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-engineer-sentenced...

> A Volkswagen engineer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan to 40 months in federal prison, and two years of supervised release his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” vehicles sold in the U.S., the Justice Department announced today.
Once a week? I easily got a month of battery out of my Pebble (whatever the base model was). It was awesome, and I'm still bitter about the sellout to Fitbit. Now I have the Amazfit Bip which gives me around 35 days of battery between charges. I can't see myself buying one of these smart watches that requires a recharge every day or two, it's already annoying enough to recharge my phone and bluetooth headphones every day.
There are a bunch of things that come up regularly on HN that aren’t particularly relevant to the real world so I don’t think this logic is good. Though I think you are correct that ML is relevant to the real world. However when you wrote ‘the real world’ you didn’t mean the thing for which ML is relevant but rather ‘being a general purpose operating system that is useful [to software developers]’ and for this I think the lack of hardware-accelerated PyTorch isn’t great but I don’t think training/running ML models is particularly relevant to being a general purpose OS (even for software developers). I’m not sure it’s even relevant to ML practitioners as I would expect they’d be farming out training to a dedicated compute cluster.

One needs to jump through a bunch of hoops to get hardware-accelerated PyTorch on Apple’s latest computers. Does that mean they aren’t ready for the real world?
It's a continuous stream of baseless, chiding articles like this that have tanked the NYT's credibility. If you really think tech firms have a Bro Culture, you've either never met a Bro or have no idea what tech culture is like.
Once at an hackaton a computer science phd student ended up in my team.

He was unable to execute a .py file.
How does California propose this will work? They already have grid/power problems, rolling blackouts, limits on EV charging. Are they so ideologically bent that they ignore reality and simply punish the residents of the state? The poorer, less mobile population will be hit the hardest. The Ellisons, Zuckerbergs, Newsoms, et al are flush and mobile, assuming the rules even apply to them.
Note that enabling "Back Tap" will cause a daemon to run in the background all times taking a couple percent CPU (to detect this action, of course). I don't have very good numbers of the battery life impact but my guess is that it's perhaps half an hour or so. Might be worth keeping in mind when deciding whether to enable this feature.
It was several million years
I remember reading a story a few years back where the DEA would create fake narratives to justify warrants because they had been tipped off by illegal spying by other agencies and needed not just a legal justification but also wanted to cover up the real source of the info so they could keep it up.
Yes! I was both tech lead and EM on a multi billion dollar double entry accounting system for years. It was completely unnecessary and overall a drag to keep the double entry system. You end up inventing a ton of random accounting procedure to account for the “other side” of transactions that just don’t need another side. You invent accounts that do nothing and mean nothing just for scorekeeping. If you trust computers to do basic arithmetic and if you trust ACID databases, double entry accounting is outdated and unnecessary.
Retro Game Corps has a couple of good videos on how to set up and use webRcade

Original setup guide: https://youtu.be/ROlxLLtR3nE

More recent update: https://youtu.be/CtPtDszpq-0
I don't like lisp syntax, but honestly, I would rather use this language than whatever nix is.

It can't be a yaml file because it's essentially a program, it's a lot easier to write such things as a program.
The thing is that Unix(of the day)'s source wasn't full of 100s of pages of vax assembly code .... so it was portable - just a page or two of assembly.

Also prior to that OSs were proprietary - if you didn't work for a hardware manufacturer you mostly didn't get to play with them much. There was no incentive to make them portable - then along came Unix and it was dropped into the hands of a generation of college kids.

Sure VMS had a better VM story (I both ported Unix and was a VMS systems hack at the time) - but you couldn't pick it up and put on anything other than a vax, it was pretty useless as an OS unless you were DEC, Unix didn't have that yoke around its neck (it had others mostly because AT&T didn't understand what it had)
I agree with your second paragraph, but I don't understand the point of the first? Are you saying that Google can be forgiven, since its competitors do the same?
According to other comments OpenSuse and Arch have it stable now and the next release of Debian will have it.
Also, Nonfree.
What I don't get about this is that marketers keep getting away with pushing this BS on the audiofool public.

There is a core group of audiophile/EEs who design DACs, amps and the like and who do know what matters for sound quality, and there's a whole pile of marketers who try to jump on the train with gold-plated power cables and (apparently) expensive chunks of wood. The engineers don't seem to care to call out the marketers on their BS. Maybe they just aren't effective at it.

As a result, the public can't really tell the difference between true and false things, like how gold-plated headphone connectors are more conductive and durable than the cheap version (and thus sound better), but gold plated power cables have no effect on sound quality. If they did, there might be a lot more audiophiles since there is some semblance of authority about what is worth paying for. The engineers are sabotaging their market by refusing to educate customers.
Lots of meat and egg whites
Thanks this fixxed it. Somehow I interpretet the default as in.
Then WebAuthn and PassKey isn't for you. I absolutely do not want secret key to be exportable in this context.
It's not that bad. Without reaching for any modern supermaterials, ordinary Victorian-age 2GPa music wire needs to be 4.4 millimeters thick to support 3000kg; 1000 kg of 4.4-millimeter music wire would be 8.3 kilometers of wire. 100 meters of it only weighs 12 kg. (Of course this doesn't include the safety factor you'd want.)

Tension members like wire scale linearly with load; a cable of 2 GPa music wire that can support 3000 tonnes would be only 140 mm in diameter. 100 meters of it would weigh 12 tonnes. This almost doesn't change if you split it into separate cables going to separate parts of the airship envelope.

It's not the Victorian age anymore, and we actually do have modern supermaterials like flash bainite, S-glass, Tyranno fiber, basalt fiber, carbon fiber, kevlar, and gelspun UHWMPE. Basalt fiber, declassified in 01995, is 2½ times as strong as music wire and one third the weight, so roughly you need 1.6 tonnes of it (1600 kg) to support 3'000'000 kg at a 100-meter span. It's not all that expensive either; it's mostly used to reinforce concrete.

Of course you need more than just a single cable, and you need a safety factor. But the available margin is much greater than you're implying. Airships don't need big trusses to carry compressive loads because the compressive load is carried by the gas, and they have to carry the load below the envelope anyway to be stable, so the load is necessarily connected to the envelope with tensile members.

I don't mean to say that it's a simple project, in particular because the failure mode is so exciting, but it definitely seems feasible.

I don't think England, Sweden, or the US is going to do it, though. They can't even fly to the moon any more, they're embroiled in partisan fighting among their ethnicities that threatens to boil over into genocide, and California's been trying to build the US's first high-speed railway for 26 years without any success. They aren't the kind of place anymore where Enrico Fermi built the humans' first nuclear reactor under the football bleachers; when Richard Handl tried to build one in Sweden in 02011 the police detained him and confiscated his supplies, due to the irrational paranoia of the public. They aren't even the kind of place my friend Aaron built RECAP anymore.
Ha this was my first thought the instant I saw "John Keats".
It sounds like a lousy ERV install erroneously described as a “heat pump”.
Ask the leadership team at the Cleveland Clinic if they see patients as customers, and they'd say yes, absolutely.

This is one of the top hospital systems in the world, and they serve patients from all socioeconomic backgrounds. You may want to think about what information they have that you don't when it comes to delivering world-class healthcare.
The future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed.

https://www.retailbiz.com.au/latest-news/inside-amazons-ai-p...
Yes, I designed the code base so that the core of the IO and query logic are abstracted into a Rust library called columnq. My plan is to wrap it with pyo3 so the full API can be accessed as a Python package! If you are interested in helping with this, please feel free to submit a PR. The core library is located at https://github.com/roapi/roapi/tree/main/columnq
Still works for gmail or office356
The intellectual geopolitical reasons for supporting Ukraine are one thing and
the apparent emotional reactions are another. Questioning the latter doesn't necessarily mean attacking the former.

When people say "current thing", I doubt that they are scoffing at the realpolitik calculations of the US and NATO that now is the time to make a stand or criticizing the arms shipments. Maybe they are, but there is definitely something about the situation that has nothing to do with public policy.

I thought about how to quantify the peculiarity without making vague statements about what I feel.

1. "Everybody is a Ukrainian" but not a Syrian, Chechen, Armenian, as evidenced by flags in real life in my area and on social media. Also comments by acquaintances that they know someone from Ukraine, as if it's supposed to be shocking, you know, this is real, this is serious. There are Armenians in this town! I have a cousin who lives in Boston, and most likely he knows some Chechens...

2. Some people spoke out and said "what about the Palestinians and the Israelis?" Including people I'm acquainted with offline/real life. I don't think you have to be particularly pro-Palestinian or agree that the Israeli actions are the moral equivalent of Russia's to observe an unexplained lack of public emotion in favor of Palestinians compared to Ukrainians. Empathy isn't something that hinges on complicated technical considerations. This is only one possible example of its absence, but more than one person called it out, and it's hard to call them apologists for Russia.

3. Online comments that presume that this conflict is/has been the only, or the only significant, brutal conflict involving the Russian Federation. That seems like weak evidence that the general atmosphere and media coverage is extracting Ukraine from all context. Grozny!

Of course, you can find coverage of anything, so what I'm saying is not that the media "ignores" anything, which is often accused but never true, but that if enough people are misinformed in a particular way then it suggests some sort of pattern in the media (or social media) climate.