skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking recently about how we seem to have an uncanny ability to remember shared information that is important to us. It's so easy to forget the myriad details of our lives and everyday interactions, but we always seem to be keenly aware of who we told what, and who knows what - at least about things we personally have an emotional investment in. I'll easily forget serious, significant information that a person has told me that has no specific bearing on me. For example, a loved one dying. Yet, I would never forget that I told that same person a comparatively trivial detail that happens to be important to me, like a potential damaging secret I've told them but few other people (such as cheating on a partner).

Our brains seem quit intent on remembering things that can result in an acute emotional response. And our brains seem incredibly unreliable on almost everything else! To the point that we have to develop tricks an strategies to get our brains to remember things that are emotionally arbitrary. Like math.

Also...

"In other words, it’s mainly the unconscious mind at the wheel."

But we all already know that, right?
Check out the VICE documentary on Kim Dotcom for the story told from his perspective. Public enemy #1, for a file hosting service that happened to be a part of the standard infrastructure for piracy. They went after him almost like they did Assange.

I’m sure there are dozens of equivalent services now but the government doesn’t even bother keeping up. The market adapted in the form of streaming, subscriptions, and services.
I don't think so but I will double check tonight
Additionally, this was a code release based outage(?). It seems like a graph annotated with releases (or a/b testing changes) would have made this outage somewhat trivial to identify.

2022-10-25 14:39: Multiple teams become involved in the investigation as more customers start reporting increases in errors.
2022-10-25 17:03: CDN Release is rolled back in Atlanta and root cause is confirmed.

This is what I find worrying.

How does cloudflare track their code releases and does cloudflare annotate their 4 major graphs (errors, rps, utilization, latency) with lines showing when things were pushed to prod?
This isn’t flow. I have it all the time when I think about some physical activity. My brain plans ahead and sends signals too early and messes up. This is oposite of flow.

As Bruce Lee said in the movie: „Do not think, feel”
The article opens with 774, which would have coincided with the Charlemagne Event, and was recorded. I imagine if I look into the other dates listed, they also coincide with recorded events.
There's a quite a popular extension called "Robot Code" for vscode:

> An extension which brings support for RobotFramework to Visual Studio Code, including features like code completion, debugging, test explorer, refactoring and more!

Have you tried it?
I know my reasons for feeling worried about it but I wonder why you also dislike the idea of end user operating systems making it trivial for applications to take advantage of remote attestation?
The TPMs are already in our machines because Microsoft requires them and CPU vendors include them in their chips. They aren't used by default and don't hinder us from doing anything. If I'm already trusting ubuntu to ship me an OS why would I have a problem with having them sign it as well.

Secureboot is a scary technology but as long as we can disable it and provide our own keys I don't see the problem. And if we lose these abilities than I'm certain it won't be Poettering or systemd to blame
Recently I researched a little bit about this Gogs and Gitea situation. Here's what I've got: Gogs is maintained by a single person. He was reluctant to accept external contributions, so Gitea was forked. Now Gitea is very active with lots of contributors and more features, but Gogs is still maintained and does have many necessary features.

We were migrating from GitLab, so I considered to install Gogs, we decided to go with GitHub unfortunately.
If you use Robot Framework and have a lot of tests, which can be executed in parallel. Take a look at pabot [1]. It is a parallel executor for Robot Framework.

[1] = https://pabot.org
Good DX, make your life easier.

It can be replaced with netlify, deno deploy, Cloudflare, aws or azure.

But these alternative platforms might need extra human effort to sort out the whole workflow.
> What I have noticed is that the more menial, low paid and generally low desirable a job is, the higher that initial barrier is. I suspect it is to at least some extend intentional, though I struggle to understand why that is.

One suspicion I have is perhaps the people in hiring whether consciously or not believe making the process more difficult improves the signal to noise ratio of applicants. Makes sense when there are 10+ applicants for each open position I think. They don't care about the people they are turning away.
It's squared off, which I suspect might be an optimization for production.

In theory, could you mass produce a fresnel lens like that? Either from glass or plastic. I can imagine that in this case, you can get away with imperfections or suboptimal focusing by just sizing it up a bit to compensate.

edit: just had to google to remind me what a fresnel lens is; it's already cheaper (and flatter) than a conventional lens that would have the same power.
> “We don’t perceive the world, make decisions, or perform actions directly. Instead, we do all these things unconsciously and then—about half a second later—consciously remember doing them.”

> For now, the theory is just that—a theory. But viewing consciousness through the lens of a memory system ...

For me it is absolutely not surprising that consciousness follows an action, because it appears to be some sort of self observation, which is what philosophers at least since the enlightment period (the German idealists for exmaple) were speculating about. To proceed an action would be magic, because how could you experience something before the fact. And to happen at the same time would also be magic, because our brains are spacial systems were signals need time to travel through a (real) neural network.

So the only interesting question here is whether consciousness is based upon the same brain structures as "ordinary" memory, or on a distinct one, or a combination of both.
Hey Herman, yes I know you can copy-paste UpMath markdown, but in my experience it's not scalable if you're writing a post with a lot of equations.
Multiple displays works well if both displays have the same or similar dpis. When they are different like one is hidpi and the other one is not, you get scaling issues.
I m one of these, i fill out the form, then i get the memories i had interacting with some of these companies, working at other companies. The Process-Dementia, the hostilitys, the relentless culture of using all things in human interaction as renegotiation ammonition. The relentless pressure, ignoring all social norms and employee health, to complete a task. The shallow friendliness, that ended as soon as your usefullness expired. The internal fights, silos and slightly drunk employees, who hated it there, but couldnt say it, cause big Brother Middle Management is everywhere.

Its considered the "good jobs" in my area, as in well paid enough to own a house, but every time im tempted to apply and see the logos, and the memories come back, i abort these applications.

Some companies are cesspools and its good to remember that and stay away from them. I also warn others to stay away from them. Some people hack these companies and get the easy life there, which is nice, but for people who actually want to work and not interact with such a culture.. not even as customers, if it can be avoided.
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Yup, that's called Goodhart law
I'm probably not the first to point this out, but isn't this crossing the spam line pretty hard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=singularityhub.com
gotta love the open-source stories
If the purpose of the law is to make psychoactive substances illegal, what would be ridiculous it would be to ban them one by one as they pop up (and they will never stop popping up)
It is a virtual time machine. You can run time forwards, explore various possible futures, then pick the future aligned most with your preferences, capabilities, and taste for risk.
Is this really accurate? Usually when I'm doing something I consider important, I get partly through the flow, go offline to prepare further, and then come back later with a more detailed answer. This is especially true if it isn't obvious at the beginning what I will need later on.

Are they identifying if somebody does this, or counting the first visit as a person who left without returning?
I suspect it'll be a trivial programming error that passed through tests that didn't test whether it leaves other headers unaffected as well as code review.
>> In 2015, NASA acknowledged the 25th anniversary of the photograph. Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, commented: “Twenty-five years ago, Voyager 1 looked back toward Earth and saw a "pale blue dot", an image that continues to inspire wonderment about the spot we call home.”

Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot

- https://youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

_________

Few videos of Ed Stone online:

- https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+Stone+NASA’s+Voyager+...

And here’s an interview with him too:

- https://astronomy.com/bonus/edstone
There is also the feeling of being ahead of the flow and showboating like a tourist taking pictures with many "third eyes" on your model of the world as experienced from every angle at once. Kind of like Usain Bolt at one of the Olympics when he broke the world record the first time. Kind of like a window manager with many viewports open on the model.
> And in order to display test statistics in Jenkins, just install RF plugin in Jenkins and instruct your job to read the output XML and you get nice statistics, reporting etc.

Sadly, that same thing can be also a negative side.. There is really no proper way to expose the results if you are not using Jenkins as your main CI. Ofcourse one can use junit reports or whip up a own listener that will generate some sort of test reports for the given ci platform...
I did this twice today.

1st time: "after the initial HR screening and meeting with Dept head, you will have 4 interviews with 4 of our engineers" (expressvpn)

2nd time: "please tick to confirm your data being shared for the purpose of automated application processing" (crossover)

F!#k this job market.
> They are less well equipped, less well trained. Three people do jobs one person could do as a result.

Trying to think of examples where I've seen this, the first thing that comes to mind is receptionists in my dentist's office. 2 or 3 surly, over-makeup'd women sat around chatting and occasionally dealing with customers. Maybe a good starting point would be to fire 1 of them and pay the other two more (or more likely, use the higher pay offer to get better people). Of course what really happens is that the business keeps that money and doesn't hire new/better employees, making the current ones even more surly but no more productive.

Going down this rabbit hole I conclude it is a cultural problem, but every solution I can think of (better safety net and higher minimum wage to push these people out of the workforce, for example) feel like they would be inordinately expensive.
Reminds me of one of my favourite Onion articles:
https://www.theonion.com/new-wonder-drug-enables-users-to-ge...

'On Monday, Sloan Laboratories, a subsidiary of the Wilmington-based Merton Pharmaceuticals, unveiled Dexiflux-V, a new miracle drug its creators claim will enable users to get "high as a fucking kite."'
Aside from the usual resume data entry I especially dislike being asked to write mini essays. GitHub is a particularly egregious example in my own experience. Never again will I invest multiple hours into an application only to be quickly rejected by what I assume was a machine.
I'm just one data point, but every company I've worked for told they me they hired me because of my cover letter.

I have 15 years of work experience.
>This isn't about your own private machine. This is about corporation-owned machines in an enterprise network and as we see with nearly biweekly news articles about large-scale ransomware attacks, private data leaks and compromised employee machines, I would argue that the currently employed solutions clearly don't work.

The fundamental issue is that you can't have one without the other, and that's bothering me. It's not like only corporate grade laptops come with TPMs now (like they did in the past).

Safetynet on my phone is the same thing and it's very much "about my own private machine". Seeing the reactions and the lack thereof about these developments makes me think this will end terribly.
20MinJS – Episode 33 – Let's Talk about Zustand with Daishi Kato
The best part I hate is being forced to upload my CV, which as expected is never handled properly by the system, and then I have to manually replicate the CV entering data into tiny form entries.

Also I don't want to give access to my LinkedIn and Xing accounts for data import, which is anyway, again, messed up.
I would estimate 90% of people who finish the application never hear another word from the employer - with the bulk (~75%) being automated responses [1]. The response rate from clicking apply to begin the process is a wonderful 0.2%.

I guess this is why websites reinventing recruitment and recruiters exist, although I suspect 'back in the day' when you would circle ads in the newspaper things were better, much better ...

[1] Annecdata collected 2018-2022*
> This sounds suspicious to me. In my experience, Rosetta is faster on my M1 MBP than natively on my 2015 x86 MBP.

The performance will obviously depend on the workload

> How did you measure this?

Running the exact same docker image based on this: https://github.com/chriz2600/xilinx-ise
And the code from this git repo of mine: https://github.com/LIV2/GottaGoFastRAM2000

Inside a Debian vm:

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/build -w /build xilinx-ise /bin/bash

cd RTL
make clean
time make ../Binary/XC9572XL/gottagofast2000.jed

When I get a chance I will check the timing of each individual step from the makefile.

If there is something I'm missing I'd love to know, I'd rather not have to run my builds on another machine
>>How quick do you want it to happen?

It's my understanding that in US you "just" ask the bank to reverse the transaction and they do - if the company still believes you owe them money after that, they can pursue you through collections or other legal means. The bank isn't in charge of "investigating" anything.

I'm not saying it's better - just that when Americans mention "just do a chargeback" it doesn't really work this way for people outside of US.
My bad, long live our great leaders!
I hate when I cannot just drop a CV, but I have to pick an open position
> 87 minutes to revert a change?

If their processes require a suite of tests be run on staging systems before the revert hits production, that may take considerable time depending on how much is potentially affected.

Also the 87 minutes might be for everything, perhaps it was a rolling update: update some nodes, test, update the next batch, repeat. This might mean that a good chunk of the infrastructure was updated for sooner and traffic could be diverted through those parts (presumably those nodes are over-specified, or just easily scaled, to be able to take a glut of extra load - as they would need to in more normal circumstances in order to contend with waxing & waning traffic patterns).

Perhaps it is even the case that the errant update didn't get out to all areas before the problem became apparent, so they were not rolling back over the whole network. Again this may offer the opportunity to divert load to non-affected areas while the others are rolled back.

So while the full revert took 87 minutes, things may have been up and running properly (except perhaps a little slower than usual) for most users/processes much quicker than that.
It means there will be a proprietary version of Gitea, named Gitea Enterprise or something similar. The company is based on an Open Core business model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model.
Running Vivado on ARM64 Mac Using Rosetta 2
I am less than lukewarm on those sort of "Natural-Language-Like" DSLs that seem to mostly come out of the QA space.

When I worked together with a QA team for automated testing, they used Cucumber, which uses Gherkin as an english-but-not-really DSL. Now the idea is obviously, that someone who doesn't know how to code can still describe and read test scenarios. But what ended up happening eventually is that I spent a lot of time writing code to support different Gherkin expressions, but then had to take over writing the Gherkin expressions as well, because even though Gherkin -looks- like english, it still behaves like a programming language. In the end, it would've been much easier for me to just write the tests in a programming language from the start, instead of using an abstraction layer that turned out to serve no purpose.

What I took away from that frustrating experience is that a lot of people think that learning to code is learning a syntax of a programming language, and if you could just do away with that pesky syntax, everybody could code. But, obviously, the syntax ist just the initial barrier, and actually coding is crystallizing and formulating intent - something which programming languages are much better at than natural languages.

But for some reason, this low/no-code idea never seems to die down, especially in some spaces, and I have the feeling I'm just missing something here.
Automatically writing cover letters could indeed be a good use for all the recent advances in AI text generation
I mean, I can do(and have done) the exact same thing with a Debit card payment, so using a credit card has offered no extra benefit here. But yes, if you just used a direct bank transfer then you're screwed.
Does Retool have a query builder? Does it support query parameters? If not how do you find the record you want to update? Does it support displaying fields from lookup tables (i.e., tables joined via foreign key)? How do you pick a record from a foreign table (when you want to update the foreign key itself)?
> you can't have one without the other,

AFAIK, secure boot can be disabled, both in the BIOS and in the Kernel.

In some machines that's not be the case due to contracts with Microsoft, but those already can't run Linux in the first place, so you probably won't buy them for the purpose of running Linux.

The suggestions in the original post do not change anything about this.
It is very true that the Earth can simply not support 7-8 billion people without machine-based agriculture. The population would quickly collapse to a level which hunter-gathering can support, likely overshooting by some amount due to initial adjustment.
It might be “software theft” but it could be a simple mistake with the license, which can happen if you reinstall or change hardware or something like that, and they need MS support to fix it.
Because it can snowball from "you may not access Widevine content on an unapproved device", which is of little significance to "you may not connect to the internet on a non government approved device" which is extremely dangerous.
It's not legal in the UK
It costs me $20/month for me. Seems reasonable.
Where is the scary warning about macros within the document? I thought that macros are not executed by default, and you must trust the source for executing the macros.

I am not trying to downplay it, it's still a privilege escalation. But is triggering it via Word macros in any way special?

edit:

At my work computer, the setting is "disable all macros with notification". I suspect, but I am not sure that this is the default for a fresh Office install.

With this setting running macros on a random Word document is not much different than running a random .exe file. Of course, privilege escalation is equally serious in both cases.
Many folks prioritize preventing practical in-the-wild blue pill attacks over preventing the theoretical DRM use case.
In terms of business model, yes. Now Gitea and GitLab are both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

There is however a difference and that matters significantly. GitLab was a company when they made the move to Open Core. It was their decision to make, unilateraly.

Gitea was a community driver project, with elected leaders assumed to care for the need of the community before their own. But they secretly created this company and transferred the domain and trademark to the company. So the community is gone an the volunteer contributors have been taken by surprise. This is not good.
A friend is looking to do research into any one of the following: Can-D, Chew-Z, skooma (moon sugar ok), Jet or UltraJet, spark, spike, spin or spank, and velocet. They are prepared to pay well. You can reach them here: https://youtu.be/PZqx-lMZHM0
RIDE is a totally independent RF editor, not written on top of any other IDE. RED is RF editor built on Eclipse. Don't use either of them. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=robocorp... and https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16086-robot-framework-l... are the way to go. Personally I use SublimeText with the RF LSP server with this https://github.com/Harri/RobotFrameworkSyntax but that's not "batteries included" like the two other plugins.
Lea Valley between Walthamstow and Clapton is full of them
Another chaos monkey case? Just do a fast rollback every day your D10 rolls a 1.
@fabioz who also posted to this discussion has been building "language server protocol" support for robot framework for a while now and is being sponsored to do so by a company called Robocorp.

RIDE is not at least officially "not maintained" but my POV is that the current maintainer might not be up to the task -- or at least doesn't have time to dedicate to its maintenance.
Then why what? Can you elaborate a bit?
These people need to get out more often.
I wasn't even being sarcastic: for me saving potentially hundreds of € is worth it, for some people they might like the "personal touch" of a travel agent.
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> Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.

This was not true before Omicron. Vaccination was never a 100% protection against contracting or transmitting SARS-CoV-2, but it did significantly reduce the rate of both. People who refused to vaccinate themselves were, in fact, putting people around them at greater risk.

That protection has decreased with Omicron, though it is still not zero (and with boosters, it increases again for a few months).
Has nothing to do with big tech or not. The video got report spammed.
I am a big fan of Gitea, it does exactly what I wants it too and its very easy to maintain over time.

I run it together with ZFS and SQLite. This enables atomic snapshot of both the database and git repository. And this is of course replicated to another system. SQLite is plenty fast, people should avoid more complex solutions using PostgreSQL or MySQL. I've also configured SSO with Azure Active Directory which everyone with mail from Microsoft has access for free.

For the past few years I've completed a few dozen upgrades, only 2 times it has broken. One was a new configuration property I needed to add, and one was that I upgraded GoLang a bit too early and Gitea didn't support it. Compared to many other open source projects, Gitea is a joy to use and run. And I hope it will stay like this for another 10 years.
HPy is definitely needed.

Using HPy it's a lot easier for libraries that bind native libs to be compatible across python implementations (CPythob, PyPy, Graal).