skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well at least the person employed has amazon on the resume and years of experience at amazon. this guy might have no name companies before amazon and abandoned a confortable position for the opportunity at amazon. id rather have 3 year at amazon on my resume while looking for a new job in this challenging time. especially in europe
>Your argument doesn't really make any sense because everybody here is talking about speech in the context of a walled garden owned by a company/person.

Did you read GP? If they were talking about comapnies and not governments, it certainly was not made clear:

>However, with the proliferation of the internet and social media, it has become easier for governments to monitor and regulate online content, and this has led to increased scrutiny and debate about the role of government in moderating online speech.

>[...]In short, the collective well-being of humanity should always be a top priority, and this includes moderating harmful or extremist content on the internet.

Where was GP talking about companies?
Other than some niche tiny firms catering to the stupidly wealthy (the 0.1% and above) like a dynastic family investment fund, I can’t think of any. Can you elaborate on some examples?
The government should simply have no hand in determining what information is presented or not presented to anyone, except within the bounds of explicit legal mandate to do so.

That this sort of under-the-table cooperation between three letter agencies and information companies has been allowed to exist and develop is completely outrageous. It should not be put into perspective, but stopped, right here, right now.

Once that is done, a discussion can be had about where it makes sense to create legislation to curtail various behaviors and content that are disturbing to social order. The current list of offenses is fairly comprehensive and includes things such as violent threats, child porn and terrorism recruitment, and any addition has to be well-motivated.

But as long as the cooperation with three-letter agencies happens outside a legal framework, the only proper response, as far as I can see, is pure outrage.
I have no public numbers but the learning materials for fire safety at the work place here has lithium ion batteries from old devices called out as the most common reason for fires in office buildings. Likewise the waste management companies here are routinely reporting fires in containers because people throw away old devices there against regulation.
Perhaps I am dense, but how? Do you see the royal family as a positive branding exercise or something, inspiring people to work harder?
The reason Bitcoin got so large so quickly is the same reason that "Crypto" got large so quickly. The majority of people who "invest" in Bitcoin aren't trying to figure out a way to trade goods and services in a way that undermines the Federal Reserve and the IRS, they're trying to increase their holdings in USD in order to better participate in the existing economy.
It's also an anthromorphization fallacy argument. "Twitter" is a company, not a private individual.

If the FBI contacts "Twitter" then they're not talking to any one individual, in fact there's no requirement that be the same person at all.

So Twitter cannot be threatened or threatened with implied threats - it's a limited liability corporation, there's no individual who can be overly inconvenienced or have any emotional reaction to the request.
Oh wow I wasn’t expecting it to work that way. I was expecting to have to use some kind of podman aliased compose alternative that copies the CLI of docker compose.
To be double fair, it sometimes felt that the Presidio was only technically part of SF. We used to joke that it was really Marin's foothold on the peninsula.
> and probably almost never trust a browser extention.

how do you deal with actually entering (hopefully) somewhat long and complex passwords? Copy and paste from passwordstore every time?
Nvidia with Wayland? That's on you then, man.
> that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full

Who hurt you? Pop!_OS?
They aren’t moderating the site. The FBI was reporting things they felt were under the purview of their election security mandate but they weren’t generally pursuing TOS violations.

If you’re referring to the administrative costs, those were a separate issue where U.S. law allows payment for the cost of complying with court ordered 2703(d) requests:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying...

Nothing in these dumps suggests that those requests are being abused.
Since the Win11 taskbar "redesign" I'm also 100% convinced of that. They also don't use mouse and keyboard it seems (touchpad/touchscreen only).
> the pride you felt when you delivered on a difficult project.

Never felt that way. Which is why family always comes first for me.
Oil pressure seems to be left out of the conversation - oil-starved journal bearings can be bad news if loaded immediately. SOP in piston-engine aircraft is to get the oil temperature and pressure "in the green" before doing run-ups.

There's a pretty good description here: https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/779/journal-bearin...
Some package developers don't want their users to have the two step process of "import" than "use." NumPy imports 137 modules with "import numpy", of which 94 are specifically in the NumPy hierarchy:

>>> import sys
>>> len(sys.modules)
83
>>> import numpy as np
>>> len(sys.modules)
220
>>> sum(1 for k in sys.modules if "numpy" in k)
94

so people can write a one-liner like:

>>> np.polynomial.chebyshev.Chebyshev([0,1,3])(np.linspace(-1.0, 1.0, 5))
array([ 2., -2., -3., -1., 4.])

without having to import np.polynomial.chebyshev.Chebyshev first.

This API design requires importing most of NumPy at startup, which has a cost they didn't consider so important because their users are primarily doing long-term computing and notebook-style development, where startup cost is relatively small.

I've complained about this because I live in the short-lived program world, where it's annoying to have a 0.1 second import overhead if I only need one function from NumPy:

py310% time python -c 'pass'
0.025u 0.006s 0:00.03 66.6% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
py310% time python -c 'import numpy'
0.142u 0.292s 0:00.14 307.1% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

As I understand it, SciPy wants a similar API design goal, but has a lot more packages. They've developed lazy imports to try to have the best of both worlds.

> For command line utilities, it seems like you're going to need to load the module at some point or another regardless (if you're actually using it)

Thing is, you might not actually use it. If the command-line tool uses subcommands, each different subcommand might need only a subset of the full set of packages.

Perhaps only one of the subcommands uses NumPy, while for 95% of uses, NuPy isn't used at all.

As the discussion for this feature points out, this can be addressed by only importing when needed. (One of the reasons I've started using click over argparse is click does more of this separation for me.) However, it's somewhat fragile, in that it's easy to add an rarely-needed expensive import at top-level without noticing it, and requires some non-standard tooling to detect issues, like the non-predictability you mentioned.

I personally want something like the lazy-/auto- importer in my package, so I can reduce the two step process. My last package released used module-level getattr functions, which gets me mostly there, except for notebook auto-completion of the lazy wrappers. (It works in the command-line shell though.)

I can't import everything on startup because parts of my package depend on third-party packages, which might not be installed. I instead want to raise an ImportError when those lazy objects are accessed. Plus, one of the third-party packages is through a Python/Java bridge, which has its own startup costs that I want to avoid.
They were not doxxing, and the suspensions were not originally 12 hours. I know Elon started off his Twitter leadership with trying to rewrite history[1][2], but that doesn’t mean you should accept it just because he continues the manipulative behavior

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-deletes-tweet-wit...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15868716916862238...
Numpy and Matplotlib were quite slow to import also, I haven’t timed them recently though.
>>> “The FTC plans to collect comments from the public before voting to finalize the order against Mastercard.”

We know how that went last time. I wonder if the process has been fixed, or if it will be gamed again.
"It's a private company and can do what it wants"
The 1k true fans approach is the most suitable one for most people looking to build a business or income stream. It lets you hyper focus on a niche that may not be well served by more general purpose solutions.

But don’t let the 1k number fool you. Getting even 1 true fan is incredibly difficult. But the idea is that if you can get 1, you can find your 2nd, then 4th, 8th, 16th, 32nd, 64th, 128th, 256th, 512th and finally your 1k.

It’s a tractable number of steps. Hard, but something you can wrap your brain around and small enough to start focusing.

A personal example is that I’ve a few hundred passionate users of my photo management software [1]. It’s open source so they aren’t paying for it. I’ve tried a few ideas without much success to provide a fiscally beneficial aspect of it - without much luck yet. But it remains one of the best opportunities for me to create a small community of people willing to pay for something I create - which is my goal.

[1] https://getelodie.com

[1 also] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie
Re-distributing intimate material without the subjects permission is pretty much the definition of revenge porn.
I don't think that's what GP meant with their comment.
Same story: 16 core, 64GB ram, 6900xt. And nothing crashes because even when being ridiculous I knew better than use Nvidia on Linux
Their license terms aren’t being violated. Artists give ArtStation and the like a license to use their uploads for training ML models.

ML models also appear to be more fair-use respecting than some human artists, who blatantly trace artwork. The ML model does not have the physical space to trace the works it's trained on.
If the FBI requests something, and you ignore or refuse them, they will find a way to make your life unpleasant. Remember, this organization has a long history of human rights abuses and illegal actions. They even tried to blackmail MLK.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter
Tearing Down the Rewind.ai App
Unix has been absolutely dominant on mobile for years now.
Appreciate it, thank you =]
Ah, I was like 2 weeks post my 3rd baby with the others still pretty small. No way I could leave Mom alone!

But awesome enough someone from the support team stepped up and took it for the team so everyone else got the week off! So it’s cool to have a cool team.
I still don't get why "first steps with Nix" has to include installing packages permanently. Making persistent changes is exactly the kind of thing that is better avoided before users have had the chance to learn anything.

> And again it's not "a page containing TLDR examples", it's what the website told me to start with.

So the website recommended you to read a page containing introductory examples. Not sure why you insist otherwise.

> And which are if anything even worse? The first one ("Nix Manual") goes directly from "you can upgrade packages" and "nix lets you rollback profiles" to "the nix language" to "advanced topics: remote builds".

What? The there are far more chapters in the Nix manual than just the three you mentioned.
Joseph Don Rosenbaum, was imprisoned and made to register as a sex offender involved the molestation and rape of five separate boys.

Yes, I'm skeptical that he was there because he was a civil rights advocate.
I may have the technical issues wrong, but I'm not sure once you factor in training that the cost is marginal. ChatGPT isn't open source; and unlike stable diffusion you can't simply self-host a trained AI equivalent.

What makes ChatGPT effective ...again, as I understand it... is the training which is a result of pouring millions of dollars in it. That may be pocket change in Silicon Valley but outside of there, it effectively puts it out of reach.
Some vehicles have oil heaters to get the oil to operating temperature before even cranking.

These engines are often large enough to park a car inside, however.
> People really need to think longer term.

Asking too much.

In the past couple months, HN users went from “it’s a private company they can do what they want” when Twitter was a public company working with the FBI to enact specific user censorship…

to “OMG Elon banned a handful of journalists, freeze peach was a lie!” when it was a suspension for 12 hours.

Where are all those “it’s a private company they can do what they like” folks now? I haven’t seen that posted recently.
Sleep states are faulty on the Linux laptop I'm currently on, and I do occasionally waste time on interoperability with various commercial software, although countless hours seems excessive. But when it comes to running dev software or getting up and running with a new project, or compiling some github source, I think I save much more time than I've lost.
>I could see a world where ‘see if it violates your own policies’ is a code for extortion with plausible deniability.

That's not the world we live in. If you reply with "Blow me", the FBI will do nothing.
Missing (or duplicating) a block in the CTR (counter) block cipher mode messes up the alignment of the count. Then everything after that comes out as random garbage.

CTR is not a very robust block cipher mode...
Tbf, that's what I expect, most subs are community-run. But even if not, that'd be telling me a lot about the community.
> their clear election manipulation

I’m confused here. I only see Republicans trying to manipulate elections with unsubstantiated voter fraud claims.
Probably better to just give that money straight to artists by commissioning art
I'd like to put a poster of the periodical table on my kid's bedroom wall.

What's the best representation for a 6 year old?
Bugs? sounds like they misconfigured their OS

Linux is not a commercial product that'll suit everyone all at once, you need to learn about its components, linux is just a kernel

If your argumentation is "various linux bugs", then you should stick to Windows, it has nice "various windows bugs", or macos, it has nice "various macos bugs"

There must be a reason why linux empowers the world from micro controllers to datacenters as well as the Steam Deck and the nintendo switch for its FreeBSD variant

Use what empowers you, no need to spread FUD
1password only somewhat recently began pushing a cloud product. It’s been locally stored for years. Gotta make that monthly revenue somehow…
> pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example

Remote start has been a common feature of many ICE vehicles for a long time.
You can read the finances in detail here, which is now a few years old, but still relevant. https://brandirectory.com/download-report/bf_monarchy_report...
Not to mention Photoshop. The problem is I honestly think if Photoshop came out for the first time in 2022 that it absolutely would get banned and be considered far too dangerous.
The royal family owns a lot of land and they let the state use it for free. Of course you could take that land from then when you dethrone them, but since we respect property rights of billionaires we probably wouldn't.
> a million steam deck

this is still just a rumor at this stage as there is no source apart from one guy saying it in a KDE conference. If Valve had indeed shipped more than a million they'd be screaming about it on the rooftops.
Is there an elegant way to import type hints without circular imports?
Professional developers use Steam Deck as their main machine? I have the wrong job it seems!
I think phones are the least important devices that this regulation could involve. Phones already have a vibrant market of repair stores which can swap the battery on the spot quickly and cheaply. The real issue is the other devices, laptops, the nintendo switch, game controllers, etc which have embedded batteries that are hard to borderline impossible to replace and which are uncommon enough for stores to not stock parts.

Something like the switch for example has no waterproofing and isn't ultra compact, it's really just not acceptable that the battery isn't a screw in panel like previous consoles.
Photoshop is a better example. Photoshop is better than any AI software for this.
And he needn’t be to have been protesting against government power. Him being there for entirely self serving reasons is a much simpler explanation than that he was an fbi plant who was willing to put his life on the line for some sort of social manipulation as you have claimed.

You started with a view and appear to have worked your way backwards to justify it.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-...

they aren't exactly quiet about it.

> Private sector partnerships: The FBI considers strategic engagement with U.S. technology companies, including threat indicator sharing, to be important in combating foreign influence actors.
Rather than copying macOS, phone UIs come to mind. Your bar at the top with info, dock at the bottom of the homescreen with shortcuts. It's felt like phones were taking over for a while. You could perhaps argue that iOS and Android UI design was influenced by older Mac OS versions originally, I guess.
Glancing at those previous threads, there should be an annual "I was wrong about my predictions last year; here's an audit of the thought processes that led me astray, and here's how I'm updating my thinking" threads, too. Maybe a shorter a title though.
Is it possible yes. You do not need VC to go public. It’s not a requirement.

Also this whole journey started a decade ago. There are many more avenues for liquidity and for raising capital. However it is a bit gated.

However if you have good advisors and ensure you retain control with board structure and dual class voting shares you shouldn’t look at as a negative
Steam Deck is not a distro. SteamOS is.
I'm a bit disappointed which the shallowness of the article. And now mention of the (relatively well known?) cat poem, Pangur Bán?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_Bán
> The only disadvantage is for drawings. I don't currently have a good way to capture those.

How about Markdeep? https://casual-effects.com/markdeep
I didn't understand this when it first came up and I still don't. If you want to defer your imports than wait until it's needed. It might be useful if you need to load a behemoth of a module for some rarely used part of a CLI tool. Otherwise, an X ms load at startup is hardly any different than the same X ms load in the middle of the execution. And on a server it's actually worse.
It's possible to cure cancer, so why haven't we?
You won't be able to drive at all without warming up in Siberia at -42.

In fact it's very hard to start the engine from cold state.

So everyone who was able to afford a pre-start heater were installing them. And those who were not were hooking up auto start timers (usualy paired with a crappy aftermarket alarm) so the cars were constantly starting in low temperatures (-30 and lower).
Thanks, it was an impulsive thing to do, but it was a good impulse. I didn't think it through and think that I might be spending my Christmas answering emails, but people understood I was trying to reach the person at the end of their rope so didn't bother me with less critical emails.
> No good or service can bring happiness.

Going back to art, this is probably false. Art (including music) brings happiness to at least some creators and some consumers. I personally receive great happiness from listening to music.
This is a real important point - many drivers in the cold aren’t dressed for it at all and though even many rural roads will have someone pass by relatively soon a warm car is going to be nicer.

Of course anyone driving in freezing areas should have winter survival gear but who actually does?
I'll take "Sentiments from the Linux Community that Actively Drive Users Away" for 300.
> I find this argument strange, especially since he uses the word "seem". "Seem" does not mean "is".

As he writes in the beginning, there is no objective truth to answer this question. Since it is subjective "seeming" is all that matters. If life seems short to you, it is (for you). If not, it isn't.
The government proved insider trading.

>I'm not going to claim to be an american law expert, but when the agencies can just say "nope" to evidence against them in said court of law, it becomes hard to claim strong legal protections. I may be wrong and misunderstanding the law, but it does seem like that. And as a shot in the dark here I doubt it got any better after the patriot act.

This is nonsense. In your example the court said "nope" to the defendant trying to push a conspiracy theory which could not possibly have exonerated him.

Here's a decent read on the Nacchio case without weird conspiracy theory bullshit https://truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/31/some-thoughts-on-the...
The poster states:

>"If you had a legacy 5000 rounds or 10000 rounds, the # of rounds can't just be increased server side. Changing that would mean a new key is derived. So older users likely still have a pretty low number of pbkdf2 rounds which makes them more vulnerable to brute forcing"

Can someone say about how long would it take for an attacker to brute force a pbkdf2 master key with 5000 or 10000 rounds?

Looking at their blog post from a few days ago they state:

>"The threat actor may attempt to use brute force to guess your master password and decrypt the copies of vault data they took. Because of the hashing and encryption methods we use to protect our customers, it would be extremely difficult to attempt to brute force guess master passwords for those customers who follow our password best practices. We routinely test the latest password cracking technologies against our algorithms to keep pace with and improve upon our cryptographic controls."[1]

Can someone say did they notify customers who had legacy accounts that used 5000 or 10000 iteration pbkdf2 master keys?
They sure don't seem to mention anything remotely like that in their incident report.[1]

In the above paragraph "best practices" is a link to the URL that fails to mention anything about selecting or periodically increasing the number of pbkdf2 iterations.[2]. If this weren't bad enough you are interrupted from reading their important incident report by a pop up asking you to sign up for their mailing list. Is an incident report really an appropriate place to use for marketing purposes? Are they really this shit of a company?

[1] https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-...

[2] https://support.lastpass.com/help/what-is-the-lastpass-maste...
Good ol’ {}

Add anything you want to keep to it, store it in the window with
window.app = {}

You can mix local storage in with it too if you want to write a class that checks its existence with a key.

Why must state management need a complex solution?

I’m sick of frameworks and modes where they abstract away the simplicity of javascript in favor of their way which is very economically driven.
Because you want reproducible builds. Updating dependencies should be an explicit operation, distinct from installing from a known state.
This screenshot looks pretty pixel perfect. Maybe have a go if it's so easy!
It helps if you hold your hands open with fingers splayed and wiggling, thumbs pressed to your temples.
Exactly why I only use linux for headless serves. God knows how many totally obvious mistakes would be “on me” if I tried to set up a GUI workstation. Who’s got the time to learn why you can’t use of of the main GPU brands with one of the main GUIs?