skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall reading some advice to parents not to freak out if they discover their child lying at an early age. The sentiment was that lying is built on a mental model of another person, and therefore requires some substantial development of emotional intelligence to even make the attempt.

There's some romanticism in common between magicians, con artists, and fraudsters about how unclearly 'normal people' perceive the world so perhaps there's some truth to what you say. And the perpetual problem with artists and visionaries is that they see the world before everyone else does. For the one group they see things as they are now while everyone else seems to see things as they were 2, 5 years ago. For the other they see what the world could be, by exercising the tools near at hand.

One wonders then how an AI that actually understand things would be seen. As a trickster? A misunderstood intellectual? A madman?
We just bought our first AirTag specifically for this reason.
Adobe has http://topcoat.io too. How many companies have multiple component libraries/frameworks? Seems like a lot of wasted time and resources.
Good luck enforcing this ban. How would they? Open up suspect bags and tear them apart looking for a device the size of a quarter?
I would say the push for this is motivated by their crappy customer service.
Yet it does.
You may have never experienced it, but it does happen. Not just a notification.
How one group of 'fellas' is winning the meme war in support of Ukraine
There could be non-cynical motives for airlines not to want customers to be able to track their baggage. Getting weird enquiries about whether bags have been stolen because they are in some unexpected non-airport location, when it's just a place the airline uses to handle delayed baggage, is probably troublesome for them.
Actually these people arguing on the internet have quickly become very adept at organizing, shaping the news, electing candidates, etc.
Don't worry about it. Anything that you need to know won't be in the news after a decade or so - it'll be in textbooks.
Architecture of Skyplane – 110x faster data transfers on any cloud
Do you have plans to add comment functionality to littr.me/go-littr?
Long ago someone described this to me as the "putting the price of the works cafeteria chips|fries up by 2p|$0.02 syndrome".
Oh the memories. Thank you!
It’s very amusing to see “young people” be into retro computers. At 71, I’m the opposite. Because I deal with actual (slow) functional degradation, I can’t be bothered with old computers. That’s a young man’s game. 2017 iMac Pro, soon to be supplemented with an M1 something.
I'm interested to see more benchmarks. The posted numbers in that blogpost seems too good to be true, is tooling really so far behind that a single tool could surpass the transfer time by that much?

The architecture goes through some of the methodology: https://skyplane.org/en/latest/architecture.html which is what I'm currently reading through and trying to understand.
Does ADA legislation in the US allow use of a font like this, or does the legislation explicitly require Braille text?
To be clear, I'm not asking about just "emulating these consoles", but rather emulating these consoles with injected 4K assets; three-pass RDMAed 8K stencil-buffering for emulation of GPU-unified-memory in compositing of shadows + reflections; 16x SSAA to smooth off all the jaggies; etc. Y'know, all those options that, when turned on, make a four-generations-old game into a game that looks like it came out yesterday.

You still don't need a 4090 to do all that — but you need more than a 1660, I promise you. (For one thing, just for holding all those 4K assets, for a game that never unloads anything because it thinks it has rather small assets!)
The Classic II is more or less just using the LC chipset in a compact Mac form factor, whereas the SE/30 was a repackaged IIcx and came out almost three years earlier. The initial price of a basic Classic II was US$1900, whereas the SE/30 cost a staggering US$6500.

And don't remind me of the prices in Germany :). I remember seeing my first IIfx at our local Apple dealer, it cost about 35k German marks IIRC... a new VW Golf car was around 25k marks back then.

More details on everymac.com:
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/specs/mac_cla...
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/specs/mac_se3...
Make sure you're not confusing ADHD with having bipolar type II. The hypomanic periods (a less intense form of mania) seem like ADHD, but the root cause and treatment is different. I've been misdiagnosed for a couple decades and earlier this year finally got the proper meds. The change has been so revelatory, I mention this any time I see someone talking about how much ADHD has affected their lives on the off chance it helps someone. Check it out.
No more plausible deniability I guess when really you just don't want to pay someone to sort through the lost and found luggage.
Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships
Thanks for the insider baseball on Wikipedia; I didn't know any of this. Will make sure I continue to support Internet Archive and take any money that I might have earmarked for Wikipedia and send it their way (along with employer match!)
And how do they intend to enforce this?
Article about NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization) on Wikipedia.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group)
Isn't it well known by this point that all customer support chat messages (even drafts as you type) are visible to the agent?
Calculus with types
I check luggage pretty often, and these days I always chuck a Tile into every bag. With all the logistical disruptions at airports of late, waiting at baggage claim is a lot less nerve-wracking when I can see that my bags pinged on the tarmac five minutes ago.
Yeah, to be clear, I have no issue with it’s use in macro-Econ, my issue is a C-Suite calling their employees and their specialized knowledge human capital to their faces.
Florida tokers inadvertently smoked rat poison; 52 sickened, 4 dead
From four months ago, it would be interesting what there plans are for it.
I use PayPal, not as heavily as I have in the past, but I have been scammed by about a dozen sellers, and in all cases, PayPal refunded my money. I've never heard of PayPal screwing over customers, only that it being owned by eBay is annoying because eBay gets two sets of fees on payments for sellers.
Browsers need an obvious visual indicator (with accessible fallback for users of assistive technology) when the browser determines that event handlers are capturing this data to be sent to a third party.

In fact, there have been studies [0][1][2] (with [0] funded twice by DARPA to the tune of $2.26 million) suggesting that mouse movements and typing patterns can be used as a form of biometric ID.

Who will be the first state to include this type of data, collected at scale, in their definition of “biometric identifiers?” For example, Illinois’ “Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)” [3] currently defines biometric identifiers as “a retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry.”

BIPA allows a private right of action (rather than empowering only a state Attorney General to pursue violations, like Texas’ “Capture or Use Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI)” [4]. That private right of action has led to a number of successful class-action suits against large social networks, such as Facebook [5] and TikTok [6]. My wife and I both got a >$300 check from the Facebook suit. The TikTok suit is currently being appealed.

[0]: https://phys.org/news/2013-11-iowa-state-keyboard-mouse-mobi...

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1109/SP46214.2022.9833612

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2012.02.066

[3]: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...

[4]: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm

[5]: https://www.facebookbipaclassaction.com

[6]: https://www.tiktokdataprivacysettlement.com
How are they even going to know if there is an airtag in someone's luggage? Are they particularly obvious on an x-ray or is there some kind of specialised detector?
MK has made a comeback after many years/flops in 2011 with a fresh reboot and serious plot. That was a great game. I believe they've released two more sequels to it which were still good.
Why are you joining as a SRE instead of a SWE?

My reading-between-the-lines is that Google has more open SRE positions than non-SRE positions. SRE wasn't what I was necessarily pursuing. But no job is perfect and this seems like a good opportunity.

Primarily, the reason I'm still considering this one was the people. I spoke with my potential manager and her boss. I think I'm at a point in my career where a good management fit is just as important as a good work fit. When I asked about their management philosophy, they both gave great answers.

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When you were doing "pure development", were you involved in the operational side of things at all?

My current project doesn't really have "operations" per se. It's a plugin to desktop software. So I do sometimes get sucked into customer issues when they get to be too tricky for support to handle, but that's pretty rare.

I do application-level administration of our source control server, and I was previously responsible (briefly) for our build infrastructure. But there is no "on call" for either.

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I find SRE work really stressful and very different skillset from what I'm good at

To clarify, do you do SRE work at Google or at another company? My impression is that SRE has a different tone at Google than in most other places.

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I would say the things I do as a "pure developer" are more akin to creative expression rather than engineering though.

I would say similar things. I think it's often a weird melange of math and art. We need to be much more precise than with other forms of creative expression, but creativity plays a huge role in it.

Still, I wonder if I could gain something by embracing the "engineering" mindset. It would be a stretch, sure, but I think it could be a good stretch for me. That's why I haven't dismissed SRE completely.
Fuck the UN. They know nothing about economy, they are just trying to get some publicity, after showing their uselessness in stopping the war in Ukraine.
Media lying about climate and hurricanes
I'm curious what people on this forum think.
literally has been used as figuratively for rhetorical purposes for a long time my overly literal friend
So 4x4 is too small for readable font
It doesn't seem as if "We've rerouted your luggage to a different airport and you'll get it at some point" should be a particular secret of the airline.
It has nothing to do with that. Even if there is a single world, it is enough to make the thought experiment.
Create very small tasks, that way you all will be super productive.
Most people believe Moore's law has already stopped on the density side. Jim Keller claims we have 50 more years of it at least. If it failed on the economic side only instead then the implications are very different. I do wonder if on the economic side of the law we are missing a bunch of innovation because every node step also reduced the number of players in the market. Right now on the bleeding edge there are only 3 players and that keeps trending down. They're also all ASML clients so we're pretty close to having a single monoculture in semiconductor fabrication. Maybe that's an inevitable result of the problem space but I do wonder if at least some of our lost efficiency comes from there.
Interesting, but what about accents or non-English letters such as ø, þ pr ð?

Also, considering that so much is written in Braille, how many people use this?
The Greenspan Fed and the Bernanke Fed maybe. This issues have been a long time coming. Blaming them on the current cohort is naive.

This pretty much just boils fown to wokist 'ignore the systemic issues and make sure you have someone to publicly yell at" politics. Not a great look for a 17 year old on tik tok. Certainly not a great look for the UN
I'm sadly lost the link (and never found it again despite checking all my browsing history), but there was an article on how some guys literally waited for the war to start to make needed calls and arrange firms to work on it.

If you want - you can try your luck finding it, it was here, on HN.
Or just let people to disable 2FA. That's simplest and easiest solution. Slap a red warning label if you need to.
I think Twitter will become better when everybody who left for Gab, Mastodon, Gettr, Truth social, etc, all come back. Conversations that are more representative of what the public actually thinks (no matter how much you might hate what they say) are more useful than echo chambers.

I can't predict what Musk will do, but I'm under the distinct impression he's trying to allow free speech for everybody, get rid of bots, improve the tech (allow editing a tweet), and potentially hold people to account better by not allowing (or deranking) anonymous accounts. There's also leaked chat with Jack Dorsey about making an open interoperable protocol. Twitter would not die if it opened it's protocol and federated. As a public company that would destroy the ability to profit, but as a private company he can do that.

I have a lot of faith in Elon based on past results. He already solved the problem of people who don't believe in climate change - he got them to buy electric cars because they are sexy. Brilliant man.
See the comment about non-cynical motives - and then, you can't complain 'well I can see on my tracker app that..' if you're not supposed to have one.
Ok, so skipping the kernel bit, where can I download the source to a GUI and a browser that runs off of 1.44MB binary?

Why can't we run one of those on a generic Linux kernel?
I think you've missed the point of the previous comment.
Yeah, but the solution to this is to proactively communicate the status of bags to customers. If you're getting weird inquiries because you're being opaque about something important to a customer, who is confused, it's your own fault if that's troublesome.
I don't know about other SRE groups, but from what they told me about this particular group, no.
There used to be this concept call a "usability study", where you got five or ten people who'd never used your product in a room and watched them use your product. It didn't give the benefits of a panopticon, but it solved the problem without requiring a keystroke logger.
It's not perfect information but in a lost/delayed/slow baggage situation, anything is better than nothing.
> This is specifically because of the transmission function. Lufthansa claims that the transmission function needs to be turned off during flight when in checked luggage, just as is required for cell phones, laptops, etc.

While this is negligible and I can see a lot of people saying "Well who cares it's just one" if you imagine a lot of interference from a lot of baggage with them on a flight.. I haven't tested, but personally I would prefer to be safer rather than sorry.

It's also worth noting this is a de-facto rule for US domestic flights too. All carriers, switching to airplane mode is a federal requirement on U.S. domestic flights.

Edit : I found an article saying they were compliant with US but no sources.. https://thepointsguy.com/news/bag-tracking-apple-airtag/
I don't want my luggage to be sent to some lost luggage auction. I actually do want to know where it is.
Well, if they are transmitting, at least in theory it would be possible to detect that transmission. Though I would be kind of surprised if they actually put much effort into actually enforcing it.
what a joke, I guess that's one way to deal with their terrible luggage handling..
I've been now waiting since a flight on August 20th to receive my "lost" luggage from them. I guess policy like this is easier than fixing the actual issue.

The only update I've gotten is this email two weeks ago, their hotline and website are completely useless. Via DeepL

> Good day,

> We apologize that you have not yet received your luggage and for the inconvenience this has caused. We regret that we are currently unable to meet our standards for a smooth travel experience.

> Why are there delays?

> There are currently massive logistical and personnel failures and bottlenecks worldwide, which are delaying baggage handling in particular. The world of flying is highly interconnected. We are dependent on our global partners here and are thus confronted with numerous challenges.

> We are working hard to ensure that all delayed baggage is delivered within the coming weeks.

> If you would like to check the baggage status yourself, please use the baggage status page only. Our telephone service centers will not be able to assist with any questions regarding your baggage.

> Kind regards

> Your Lufthansa Team
OK. That raises all sorts of follow-up questions, as turning off security measures can be expected to have consequences.

What should Google do in the scenario that this purposely-low-security-for-the-unhoused account is breached? What about abuse? Are we OK with Google just shutting off accounts in that scenario? Are we prepared to accept that the members of our community experiencing being unhoused will find themselves constantly creating new accounts as their old ones are shut off or rendered unusual from the consequences of purposely-low-security-for-the-vulnerable?

Remember, things like gmail accounts are under constant attack. Security measures, the very ones we're talking about disabling, help keep those attacks at bay. Each of those things that triggers verification actually lines up with real attack patterns.

So while this may be a small-ish thing to ask for, I'm a little concerned about the consequences. We're literally asking to offer the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society shittier security and ignoring the effects of this.
Fuel inflation (right before elections!) to deal with inflation!
>How do you find each other?

by exchanging public keys over an established communication channel

>If it's feasible for an end user, say 30 seconds of a phone's CPU, you can be sure that a spammer could generate millions.

yeah, that's an inherent limitation of PoW, so it has to be an option rather than a requirement. then people who don't care about privacy can do the SMS thing, and those who do can opt to do the 30 minute PoW.

but this is irrelevant to Signal. it's not the phone number verification itself that people have problem with. if the only purpose it served was to prevent attacks on the service by ratelimiting it to one account per one phone number, that would be largely fine. the problem is that your phone number is your Signal identity, which is utterly moronic for a "privacy-first" service, and the reasoning and excuses for this stink to high heaven.
The 19-year metonic cycle (of the Jewish and Chinese calendars) has always struck me as clever but inconvenient - how do you quickly calculate if we'll have an extra month in x years from now? The Gregorian calendar's algorithm - every 4 years, except if divisible by 100, except if also divisible by 400 - is both clever and elegant.
How many services are we talking about here? Do you think this model will scale as the number of service grows?
Can be replaced with 300 servers with ScyllaDB :-)
Retinoid restores eye-specific brain responses in mice with retinal degeneration
> Sometimes it's good to shake up the foundation and see what new patterns emerge.

In this vein, I'm a lifelong guitarist and someone lent me a mandolin... I've learned a lot from playing it! It's tuned to straight fifths, but since it's much smaller than a guitar, you can actually reach all the notes of the scale without moving your hand up and down the neck. (I assume this wouldn't be true of a full-sized guitar tuned to fifths, although I haven't actually tried it.)

You can pretty quickly intuit how things work, and it will give you new insights into theory. The scales show up more simply and symmetrically than on a guitar. (e.g. the western major scale in the open position is 0-2-4-5, 0-2-4-5, 0-2-3-5, 0-2-3-5)
Show HN: Calculate how many supplies you'll need during a hurricane
Nice run down. But in this context it seems to boil down to

> I have the feeling that trying to address these points by bolting features or DSLs onto a general-purpose programming language doesn't work. At least, I have yet to see a convincing implementation of it.

… and what is worth doing, a new shell or new features in an old language, which isn’t addressed by that post AFAICT.
The cat is out of the bag.

There is no way that people are going to stop putting AirTags in their luggage, at least not while airlines are still constantly losing luggage and fighting people on reimbursement.
My bags have air tags in them… just by default when I travel.

My kids are tagged when traveling. Elderly in laws at times.

This rule makes them look like they know they’re terrible/ don’t want to get caught.
I recently discovered a web-based recreation [0] of their earlier WeatherStar platform, and it was quite nostalgic!

(edit: updated URL to another clone that was operational at edit time)

[0]: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com
Hahaha, may be I need to just go into the AWS ether and start yakking big words like "Elastic Kubernetes Service" to confuse the scientists and get my aws fix. These people are too stingy. I want some shit running in AWS, what good is this admin IAM role.
If transmissions truly are a problem, I would hope they’d protect passengers and vehicles (e.g. faraday cage luggage compartments) rather than hoping customers do not leave dangerous devices such as AirTags in their luggage.
Not necessarily US firms. And making it feel authentic could just mean they didn't fuck up.

Again, I'm not saying the Ukrainians didn't do this themselves. They may have. Or there may be some obscure books few people read in 30 years that tell the story of the companies NATO paid to prep the Ukrainians to win the propaganda war.

I'm pro-Ukraine (of course?) but I doubt there's anyone who's dipped more than a toe into poli sci and international studies who's not had this through cross their mind, on seeing how fast, consistent, excellent, and on-all-fronts Ukraine's public information warfare has been. It's not exactly a way-out-there possibility. And if they did it's not like that's necessarily a bad thing. Just... don't be surprised if there are some pieces about how much more there was behind the scenes to make that happen, in Foreign Affairs or something, that only politics nerds will ever read, in a few years.
Mine is my favorite computer that I never use. Hasn't been plugged in for about 35 years.
Next headline: Lufthansasa installs faraday cages in all their cargo holds
Seems 5x5 is the limit. 5x5 is perfectly readable to me, while this 4x4 one is not always very clear.

Example of 5x5: https://www.dafont.com/5x5.font?text=Small+fonts+have+always...
I wonder if cargo bays could have a mesh or paint that would act as a faraday cage. I will admit that I suspected at first glance that this was to avoid accountability for luggage that is lost.
It amazes me that apparently every war is just a “proxy war of the US vs INSERT COUNTRY”

Really? That “who gives a shit” attitude is extremely shortsighted, as well.
A centralized database is owned by a centralized entity and the admin can change it at will to steal money - or at least the owner of the hardware can shut off power.
Let's talk about Ethereum here since Solana hardly counts as decentralized. Ethereum stakers are subject to an Inactivity Leak penalty if they don't do work for the chain. If a validator decides to stop proposing or attesting to blocks, they will be penalized by the network and lose money. There's about $20bn of ETH staked that can literally disappear from existence if all of those validators decide to stop doing work.

This is an even better incentive mechanism than a bank salary. It's like if a bank made all it's employees keep all their money with the bank and if they didn't do their job they lose all their savings.