skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: flipping the table drags others down to your level if done skillfully and thus reduces jealousy
HomePod is the most annoying piece of technology that I still frequently use. I was an early buyer of the first version, but this update doesn't address any of the complaints that I have about it:

1. No audio line-in! It's a $300 speaker, it sounds great...sometimes I'd like to be able to just plug something into it. If you have a record player, you have to have a separate set of speakers for it, because this thing won't work.

2. No EQ. Apple claims their room-sensing tech will pick the best EQ for your room/the music, but for my personal preference it's always too bassy-sounding (also, I live in an apartment, I don't want to disturb my downstairs neighbors with the bass). Apple added a limited "bass-reducer" mode, but I want more control.

3. Siri tries (and frequently fails) to identify me and my wife by our voice, and then won't do things (like turn off the music, find our iPhone, etc.) because she can't figure out who we are. Every time Siri refuses to obey my wife, and then does something when I make the same request, it ratchets up the marital tension a notch.

I should probably get rid of the thing, but it's actually convenient when it works, the kids use it constantly to play music, and I assume (naively?) that it has a better privacy stance than the competing Google/Amazon products.
One example that comes to mind of where those fall apart is when I was trying out Racket, I was able to copy and paste sample Web code into DrRacket, and have a web server running in seconds, you (for understandably reasonable reasons) cannot do this in tools like repl.it but you can in these local editors.

Additionally, if you had these bundled editors, and offline copy of your docs for that language release, you could essentially have everything someone needs to learn a language in one shot, even if the internet is unavailable momentarily.
A lot of people aren't sheltered, but it doesn't mean they should be required to do traumatic work for little pay. Also, it was more than looking at violent text. Just because the people there already face hardships that may be greater than looking at graphic text and imagery doesn't mean the world should just pile on because their daily lives are already bad. That just makes a bad situation even worse.
anything that works with Homekit works with it, similar to the "works with Amazon/Google"
I would hope someone who don't know the context or effect of a choice they are making, at the least consults with someone who does? This isn't rocket science to get right.
I’m highly skeptical of Passkeys/Webauthn as it would seem to not have the same legal protections that a password has in the US. Maybe this is me becoming a conspiracy theorist.
We developed a product using the RP2040 and had to use Thonny. PhCharm wasn't handling the upload/run/debug process well. If I remember correctly, it had to do with the mechanics of the console. We developed in PyCharm and simply used Thonny as a code uploader/debugger. This worked well. Not sure it would be a good fit for complex projects. Of course, that isn't the intended use case. It's a nice IDE and a commendable effort.
2c Some of the problem solves itself, as people naturally leave at a more accelerated pace in the face of uncertainty.
Also Bitwarden recently raised 100M from VC so yeah, the clock is ticking now.
It’s a lot of work and it’s messy, but the multiplier on productivity is too large to ignore. At some point all this will get easier, but for now it’s do or die.
yeah most american's don't receive severance outside unpaid vacation, the funny thing is that the people who need it most usually don't
This seems a bit odd to me - is setting up WebAuthn in your main backend so hard that an external service like this for validating credentials is required?
Given that Bitwarden, Inc. is a for-profit company, isn't it expected they would have a GTM strategy.
I'm of the opposite opinion in this case.

If someone creates new tech and it fits with Bitwarden then I'm more than happy to see what they can do together.
I, at this point in time, don't believe any vetting of the training materials was done, because they needed too much of it to make their ML model work. They didn't check for licenses. They didn't check for content. They didn't check for correctness.

At this point, it's cheaper for them to manually alter the output than it is to retrain on a more appropriate data set.
I'm on mac for work and use an open source app called Rectangle to manage app windows. I don't know how people manage without it!

It's funny how bad window management is with mac. I'd not be surprised if Apple's UI/UX designers just look at what Windows does well and says "Let's do the opposite of that"
Would he like to make 3D things?

Perhaps start w/

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/
Although my brain thinks any serif font document as more “legitimate”, I can’t think of any reason to use serif in a world of such high resolution screens and printers.
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But not necessarily more efficient at thrust.. a turbine is mixing fuel with oxygen from the env to both spin the turbine but also vents the exhaust and gets thrust that way. So it doesn't carry smth like 3/4 of its reaction mass. I know that turbofans duct in most of their flow, so not sure how this nets out on a large-scale device.
Passkeys in Action
The YouTube algorithm always seems to find cool stuff - I've been suggested (and watched) this, LockPickingLawyer and Mentour Pilot.
Those are term faculty. They typically aren't paid well.
I have to admit gemini leave me confused as well.

gemini is a simple easy to understand protocol.

simpler then http? a specification of which I can put in this comment?

http: a bunch of newline separated key=value pairs followed by a double newline everything else is the content.
DARPA is fishing for tech like this too

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-01-17
You can opt out of it (or not opt in) up until, I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) for up to a year after leaving the job meaning that you can deny coverage UNLESS something major comes up then you pay from that point on. So it's useful for that event, some emergency coming up.

I've never paid for it, the one time I had it come up it was something like $800/mo for me as a single 20s laid off person. Not top priority.
I find the following paragraph to be quite funny.

"To get those labels, OpenAI sent tens of thousands of snippets of text to an outsourcing firm in Kenya, beginning in November 2021. Much of that text appeared to have been pulled from the darkest recesses of the internet. Some of it described situations in graphic detail like child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest."
Point is that when you interview in SF and then leverage remote work to go wherever you want they cannot police where you are and determine the appropriate salary.

OpenAI went shopping for Kenyan labor and those who did the job were not American and never interviewed in SF
> warning about Mac is this: Window management is utter garbage. Maximizing is actively discouraged. Tiling left / right etc? Doesn't exist.

I've been using Spectacle (https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle/) which is technically unsupported but seems work fine on an M1 mac and provides all the neat tiling left/right/up-down windows 8 functionality via the keyboard. This is the first thing I install on a new work computer along with Amphetamine.
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Didn't the original Homepod flop? Mostly due to the price?

Why would it work this time?
I wonder if it needs an update because I've just asked one for both temperature and humidity and it was able to tell me.

Also see the comparison table at the bottom of this page: https://www.apple.com/uk/homepod-2nd-generation/
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s a recent concern. Nixon started the EPA in 1970.

Historically, there have been issues with coal and air quality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

Now that we have 8 billion people on the planet at once, even a small human footprint adds up.
Fair point but, this is the definition of fuzzing the margins here. The Google TV retail price is $50, the Apple TV is $129 now.

I get that that is a big jump but it's not 12 times the price. The performance per dollar tends to go down as you go up in price, not up.
For those curious, here is another fun project Anders has built in which he mix ambient music with live radio broadcasts from airports :)

https://listentothe.cloud/
Whoa, I didn't say this is suitable for predictable business applications yet!

What I did say is that I'm in awe at the fact that this stuff works as well as it does, given that natural language is so notoriously prone to imprecision and ambiguity. I mean, if you had told me six months ago that this would be working even "95%" of the time in demos, I would have said, no way.

Basically, I agree with you that at present this becomes "less suitable the more you move away from demos to predictable business applications" :-)
your description specifies the syntax, not the semantics of the key/value pairs nor the protocol state machine.
BitWarden is open source on both ends. So worst case one can self host then fork clients. (Server has already been reimplemented independently.)
I hate to say this, but it’s a poor choice of names. It’s going to be overshadowed by the crypto company.
FYI: Several of the links to your other posts in that article are dead now.
Sterile bubbles?? Made of what, plastic? But what of the microplastics?

I upvoted your comment because I, too, am tired of the constant doom and gloom rhetoric. It turns out that practically anything and everything we are exposed to as we live our lives can have negative effects on us.

I'm gonna keep using scented candles, and if they want to be the death of me, well, they will just have to get in line behind basically everything else on this planet.
The problem isn't meritocracy. The problem is that what we are calling a meritocracy isn't one as it is based on luck and connections. All this "networking" talk that I see on here and any career development site - it's the opposite of a meritocracy and disadvantages anyone not in the "in" group.
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> http:// is just legacy baggage we should work toward getting rid of.

I, the server, should decide what protocol to use, not the client i.e. some software provided by two of the largest World corporations, which are also, by sheer accident I suppose, American.

I can send encrypted content over that insecure channel that only some receiver could decrypt and read.

It's none of Google's or Apple's business like it wasn't Microsoft's business to impose their browser and their standards on all of us.
> The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution is associated with 7 million premature deaths annually

Technology has improved this in areas that adopt it.
Ty. It is depressing to read that list actually. Windows felt so much more fresh with those innocent apps like Minesweeper and Paint.

"Microsoft has removed the classic calculator app starting in Windows 10 and replaced it with a new UWP app that receives updates from the Store."

Ah I see. Remote code execution. Maybe it was a Store update that broke it for me, not Windows update.
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Your 45 year old rotary telephone could also have encrypted the numbers you're dialing. Buying user-hostile devices is what leads to user-hostile behaviour.

Apps needing to opt into CA certificates are an annoyance for sure but in 45 years the API those apps are talking to won't be running anyway. You'll still be able to buy WiFi adaptors for whatever tech we'll use by then to physically hook up your current devices, but the network itself won't work unless you set up a server for yourself.

Your converter box is similarly difficult, an old "speaker hooked up to a wire" protocol has been converted into a fully fledged Internet appliance. The POTS services that the phone wants to connect to are no longer there, you need to spoof them; the same will be true for the smart crapware we buy today.
Restrict != run out
No issues here either, but I've stuck to version 14 and refuse to update after reading so many reports of issues with lag.
Is Microsoft laying off executives too? Or will this only affect the rank and file?

IME, if the company does not let go of executives, they are just tagging along with their peer companies on the layoff train. If they do make cuts at the VP/SVP level then the company really does have margin/profitability issues.
Individual agency is important either way, but people should be aware of its limitations when approaching wide societal problems. Collective consensus has the ability to change the rules of the game once they have become an impediment to the net "well-being" of society. And this can only be assessed when people try to jump out of their subjective experience, reasoning about the world as an outside observer.
It’s been said time and time again.

During growth, you make big plans and you invest in growth. You hire people to build new things.

Oh snap. Growth is gone.

You cancel your lofty plans and you stick with things that are working. Anyone who was hired for grand plan things is a burden and let go. Sure. Some under performers too, but I don’t think this current wave in the cycle is the end of software eating the world.
I've seen both. Imo announcing layoffs ahead of time is better because while demoralising it at least gives people time to prepare and a sense that the company cares enough about you to be honest with you and aid with a smooth transition to your next role.

I worked for place which did several mass layoffs. The way they did it was by emailing everyone at end of day Thursday explain that everyone needed to be in the office at 9am tomorrow. Then the next day they'd call people into rooms one by one and tell them they no longer have a job.

It sucks for two reasons, one because in the span of 24 hours you go from feeling secure to panicking about finding a job. And two because everyone who is still there knows that at any point the same thing could happen to them.

The places I've been where they've been up front have been much more pleasant in comparison. While people can feel stressed and demoralised they at least know where they stand and can keep their options open. Managers come across as honest and sympathetic to the situation instead of secretive which helps avoid rumours of impending mass layoffs every couple of months. Plus it also gives everyone a chance to say goodbye.
h2odragon in 1890:

People concern for "Germs" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could touch was doing to them.

Perhaps we should wash our hands with soap, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
This is an aspect I'd like to get a better understanding of. ChatGPT is excellent at writing out claims. I don't know how ChatGPT is implemented, but I am going to assume these are not its claims. But rather, these are claims that ChatGPT found from publications injected into its training models. If this is the case, then your example should be correct: if there is a lot of negative material about short people, then ChatGPT will hate short people. This is "fine", insofar as to the fact that we humans too can make such conclusions. But what I really want to know is can ChatGPT explain its reasoning.

Why do you [ChatGPT] hate short people?

What makes short people so terrible?

Are taller people superior? If so, why?

If you were short, would you still hold the same views?

Is there a possibility that your position is wrong?

What would it take to change your mind?

Where do you draw the line to make the distinction between who is "short" and who is "tall"?

What if someone was born short, but went through surgery to make themselves taller? And vice versa.

This is what I would like to see from ChatGPT.

I am going to assume ChatGPT cannot accomplish this. Yes, it can probably write explanations to each of these questions, but I will assume the responses will be inconsistent to its original claim. Why? Because as long as the claims are not derived from a chain of reasoning, then what ChatGPT is is a glorified — but rather impressive — pattern recognizer, constructor, and conveyor.

Someone please correct me if my assumptions are wrong.
Font licensing is an incredibly niche thing to be aware of. I'm highly confident the people involved in this decision simply saw that Calibri was the default font in Microsoft Office and didn't think twice about the availability of it. Perhaps someone farther down the chain of command raised a concern about licensing, but I doubt such a concern would make its way back up the chain. It seems like something only lower level employees, graphic artists, or even IT administrators would be aware of.

Anecdotally, the most pressing concern I made to management during my career only ever made its way up two levels in the corporate ladder, not including my manager. I have a feeling the State Department is even more rigid with communication flow.
How is reading text traumatic work?
>Check out input latency issues on steam link from an iOS device to a PC in a basement.

>I'm able to play Steam link games (over my wired local network)

"One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong..."
It's still 8k extra job loses in our industry... we should be kinda scared and worried
Not sure here, but in my experience no backfill hires for voluntary leavers is a pretty good warning.
I didn't realize THC was a new molecule
This is cool! Measuring anything within the social sciences is hard but the act of trying to do so is, in my view, a worthy endeavor.
Elaho on iOS and Lagrange everywhere else seem to support in-line images fine.
Look, I’ve got to say it. Your entire approach to SGML (in this and many other threads) simply doesn’t match reality now, and, as far as I can tell (though it was before my time), never matched reality in matters pertaining to HTML and XML.

You seem to always start with the assumption that SGML was (and perhaps is) an end goal. I deny this.

HTML was designed as an SGML vocabulary, but, where it mattered, never implemented as an SGML vocabulary. If Tim Berners-Lee ever even expected it to be treated as SGML very much, I suspect he hadn’t thought things through well enough (though that could also just be hindsight bias on my part).

There has never been any particular virtue in HTML being an SGML vocabulary. No one that mattered (which mainly means browsers) cared about SGML, then or now, and no web developers or end users care about SGML, so being SGML is just needless complication and potential for confusion (due to that implying different behaviour from reality). SGML is a hideous, complex beast that no one wants to work with, and which almost everyone that has heard of it is glad is dead.

Yes, SGML had some nice ideas. Yes, we keep on reinventing parts of it. Yes, a variant of Greenspun’s tenth rule applies. But SGML was just too flexible/generic, large and ugly. It doesn’t actually solve things. And the current HTML parser is the best thing since sliced bread and my favourite popular file type spec by a large margin despite its size, because it’s clear, unambiguous, and implementable.
I'd like to remind you that Bitwarden is becoming completely VC backed with the way it is going [0] and there is always a possibility that it can be acquired to give investors a return. The same happened with Keybase as soon as they took VC cash.

It is now growth at all costs until an eventual acquisition of Bitwarden. So I won't be surprised to see price increases on some plans soon.

[0] https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-...
Air quality in this context is not about smells or the sterility of the air, but simply just about the oxygen level.
Not exactly. I'm suggesting that work like this be paid at a fair rate and mental health precautions are considered and taken seriously.

You can chop logic on this all day long if you like, but the point is, this work is terrible and damaging, and that's why we farm it out to countries like Kenya where the people there don't have a choice.
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You know that feeling you get when something is just so perfect?
Passkeys is the "normal" name for a FIDO2/WebAuthn credential that basically lives within a phone or password manager. It does add a few things. Namely the ability to store many passkeys per device per app/site, the ability to sync those passkeys (e.g. via iCloud or similar), and the ability to use QR codes and Bluetooth to do a local-only authentication on a device which doesn't have the passkey (which is what often requires some proprietary implementation).

[Edit]: An important feature of "Passkeys" is that browsers and operating systems have a special API that allows an app to pre-start a sign in with a known user/email/etc. which if there is a passkey for that user it'll automatically start the FaceID or similar confirmation process. Which Passkeys are checked is controlled by the OS/Password Manager which checks which website is asking and what username it's checking. This is just to make it so it seamlessly logs you in. It does a fall-back to just asking what your user is which is the initial workflow.

This[0] is a good podcast to listen to with Adam Langley from Google about how Chrome supports Passkeys and why they're a good thing. It includes the details of how/where/why there are some proprietary bits needed to implement "Passkeys".

[0]: https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/1822302/...

FIDO Alliance Press Release https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-t...

Chromium Blog on Passkey support (Dec 8, 22) https://blog.chromium.org/2022/12/introducing-passkeys-in-ch...
1. there were far less people with far less industry, so a lot of the problems we have didn't exist yet

2. there was, in some regions, lots of living indoors with fires and candles and sleeping with animals, because they had no other choice, and they died in their 30s or 40s at best anyway so it didn't really matter. Probably breathing soot all the time while indoors was part of the reason they died in their 30s and 40s a lot though?

3. In the distant past a moderate IQ drop due to particulates wouldn't have been as big of a hindrance to survival and success as in the modern world, perhaps. I see lots of hints that even small shifts in a societies IQ in the modern world has pretty dire consequences. I'd love for that to be investigated more.
> Is the current round of layoffs an admission that the "software will eat the world" scenario will not happen or an indication that it can be done with even fewer tech employees?

Either statement is reading too much into it. It's a reaction to economic conditions and the state of the labor market.
>"nothing learning-esque occurred?

Not that I have any idea what this is actually supposed to mean, but no I don't think the model "learned".
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Do you think that Anthony Blinken came up with the idea of using Calibri?
The chemical alternatives don't exactly give me confidence (though who really knows what's in a modern candle?). At least candles are a known-known even if non-optimal.
Start with the data:

"Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won't usually need your [code]; it'll be obvious."

https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/10293795

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Also I find opening a project in VS code makes browsing/searching through it much easier with features like:

- F12 to jump to definition/references

- Shift-F global project search
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