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Yes, unfortunately they decided to replace one antiquated technology by yet another one. It's a pity that QtC didn't come up with something much better and just adopted cmake instead.
You can drive your car anytime you want, and you do. It’s not limited to a designated schedule of 2 days a week and 8 days a month and never on holidays. Same with everything else you said in your dishonest, bad faith comparison. Personal is not business.

I’m a cofounder at my current startup so I guess I think differently about a business paying for things that are needlessly idle for no reason, but you do you. We don’t think paying for office space makes sense at all and don’t. But if we did, no way are we flushing cash down the toilet for overly indulged devs when that cash can go to raises and bonuses for top performers (morale). And if a top performer wants a dedicated, non shared desk, well ok. We will offer them a choice between a salary boost or the desk.
I wonder if they hid the fact that good enough shoes would be reused because some people don't want that to happen.
Yea I dont support Microsoft either but I do have to run it on multipule machines for work and I don't need to restart unless to switch into Linux. It sounds like one of your apps has a memory leak or something. Do you check task manager for resource hogging?
I agree. It matters to me too and, as you say, it cannot be called "speciesism" even in the most generous definition of the word. I propose the term lifeism: ethical and aesthetic prejudice favouring entities that have a life over those that do not.

We can do a thought experiment:

There is a runaway trolley hurtling down a track in the direction of a mediocre human science-fiction author, who is not even good enough to quit his or her day job. On a side track is a server holding the only trained copy of an experimental ChatGPT model which can generate science-fiction novels as good and original as Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin combined, and at a massive scale. You can pull a lever to divert the trolley towards the server, destroying the ChatGPT model.

Do you pull the lever? As a self-confessed lifeist I would definitely pull the lever.

(By the way, the mediocre author is not actually on the track, but on a bridge on top of it, out of harm's way)
Why do you care about what I do if you aren't a snooping pervert?
Signal "note to self" is another way.
It's objectively not a problem. It just reeks of virtue signaling to me. But I'm not a billionaire so my opinions don't matter much in this country
This will be nice if and only if there is a way to install a custom android version.

Otherwise it'll be bogged down with bloatware and will be useless as soon as security updates aren't available anymore.

But if so, very nice :)
I know this forum is full of businessy types but it's still amazing to me to hear so many people saying crypto has no use cases and AI is already proving useful. I have my own healthy skepticisms about both, and see some really interesting use cases in both. Obviously there are and will continue to be donothing hucksters with magic potions, like in any industry, especially new and misunderstood ones. They will do their ruinings with no concern for actual progress.

However can we take stock of a few things here?

Crypto:

- opt-in, democratizing

- privacy preserving, data protecting

- open, transparent, auditable, provable

- peer to peer

- extremely cheap to participate

AI:

- trained and used without consent

- massive data ingesting and processing

- closed, blackbox, censored, inscrutable

- centrally, corporately controlled

- prohibitively expensive to participate

So when I hear people saying that crypto is dead and has no use cases, and AI is useful already and is solving real world problems, I think I know what kinds of problems they are trying to solve.

The examples I'm seeing so far of people getting "real world" uses out of AI are like downright grotesque to me. Writing cover letters? Making "content" for marketing websites? Writing emails?

Who wants this? Only the makers of these things want them. Not the receivers. As if the corporate internet couldn't get any more boring and derivative, let's put it all in a big pile and then churn out infinite replicas of it in a vast grey fog.
Well I hope its just overthinking of users of HN that guess what would happen.
Well they don't say what happens to the shoes that are in bad condition, I think for completeness' sake they should do the same with tatty and worn out shoes. The trackers would likely get shredded then though.

I think this is only half the story. Why would they shred up perfectly serviceable shoes when they can make money off of selling them?
Indeed this is HWFO's core thesis: https://hwfo.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-plastic-...
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I disagree. This is all just the system working as intended. You're just letting the halo effect of extreme levels of success in attaining prosperity making you accept a double standard.
Isn't this what higher ed sorta is. You are paying for a lesson, but way more money. A lot of things in life are like this, like taking ski lessons, coding bootcamps, pilot lessons or culinary school. Is the scam having to pay or having unrealistic expectations? This would apply to some college students, who got into a lot of debt and don't get the career they wanted or was promised.
I have a friend that has made millions off of NFTs and another friend that has made hundreds of thousands. Grift if you’re bad at it.
Thanks for pointing that out, I knew it was a closure because of the Elixir in Action book, and the example's explanation threw me off balance.
Why does it not make a difference to bribe politicians? That's the whole point of lobbying isn't it?
It's not tugged towards the black hole in a straight line - the word "dragged" fits best if you interpret it like the drag on an airplane, something that's impeding the movement of the body and sucking energy away.
So actually they're doing something better than recycling?
We've been working on some open source tooling called "oxen" that was built for large datasets of images, video, audio, text etc. We wanted to solve the exact problem you're flagging here with git.

Feel free to check it out here https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release#-oxen would love any feedback!
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I’m definitely not going to try and endorse intentional incompetence.

I think it is just not so tricky in the first place. If you start out with “you can use hjkl for directions, and y for copy, d for delete, these can be combined with directions and prepended with numbers; remember the modes, and :w and :q” vim is already as good as most others editors. Then I’d just start using it, rather than trying to learn from the top.

My filter for when I should learn a new feature is when it solves a task I find repetitive and annoying (or I will make a post on Hackernews that says learning Vim is useless, to get a list of features that people actually use day to day). Since we all have different idiosyncrasies, this filter will be different from person to person, so I don’t really get the idea of a guide.

That said, I’m just describing what worked for me; if someone wants a guide they should go for it, we all learn differently after all.
I tried using chatGPT to write me a cover letter and targeted resume given my full resume and the job description. It gave me the cover letter and the resume - but it made stuff up to match the job description. I have a masters degree but it gave me a PhD, for example (I'm not sure why it did this as the job requirements were Masters of PhD, I guess it figured a PhD was better). I'm pretty sure I would have easily gotten an interview for the position based on that cover letter + resume as it was essentially a perfect fit to the job description, but the interview would've gone badly.
I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34935780
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My understanding is that when particles are entangled with each other, they must be described together with one wave function rather than one wave function for each of them. So once you measure particle A, the wave function collapses both for A and B.
Only reliable way of multiple SSO for Microsoft stuff I've found is:

- Use different browser profile for each account

- 2nd and subsequent account - use Teams in the browser - in the respective browser profile (teams.office.com).

Teams in the browser is not substantially different than the desktop app.
> Collabora ports windows game to linux.

Not according to their references.

> They created SteamOS for Valve.

Obviously not. They created some parts of the update system for SteamOS 3.0.
I was not referring about the timeline from the breach but the timeline from the transfer of funds, which by their nature are visible by the blockchain and even with everything else failing wouldn't this be on dashboards and part of regular monitoring anywhere else?
I haven’t been shocked that fellow engineers don’t know how to use a debugger for at least ten years. Most jobs in the industry can be done adequately without getting into tools that low level.
Look at the jobs link on ycombinator.

Startups that don’t suck. But if you want a big, safe company…… hmmm, maybe MSFT, Salesforce, Netflix…. Honestly I hate big companies so wish I could recommend better.
AI Text Classifier
The object has been fully dragged across the event horizon into the black hole?
Playing these semantic games was really fun when you're a stoned teenager or in college, but adults typically understand that work performed must be useful work.

There is:

A. An infinite amount of potential work to be done

B. Only some of this work "generates income" as you put it

C. There is a method of determining which work "generates income" and "needs to be performed"

Hope you can figure out the rest.
> Since the speed of light is the fastest possible movement, there is no way to arrive at the event location faster than that, any faster movement means you would be time traveling back into the past in attempt to reach the event before it happens.

I don't quite get the time travel bit. I've seen too many sci fi and fantasy shows where time is effectively frozen while supernatural entities move about. Other than the supernatural entities moving about, the instant is the same everywhere, it doesn't go back.

And if I see an event at Alpha Centauri, and immediately teleport there, the light wave is still at Earth. I haven't traveled back in time to the origination of the light wave at Alpha Centauri. And my light wave will not reach Earth until another ~4.3 years has passed after the first light wave that prompted my journey to Alpha Centauri. So the observer will not see anything unusual. I will not have rewritten the light pattern they saw.

Also I think astronomers do see events which appear to be violations of causality, but are actually just gravitational distortions of the light traveling from an event. So interference with the travel of light from an event can't really be seen as traveling back in time.
> TikTok is the most non-toxic social media.

Holy hell, citation needed.
When I moved to SV from the Portland area about 20 years ago, the first thing I sought out was a surplus store like Wacky Willy's (closed), the Tektronix country store (maybe still open?), or Surplus Gizmos [0]. My friends and I used to frequent those places in high school and college when we needed electronics and electro-mechanical parts for our nerdly pursuits.

I had been making the SV surplus store rounds at least once a month - Halted (HSC), Weird Stuff, Excess Solutions, etc (plus the Fry's swap meet). Those nicely furnished my garage workspace with industrial-quality furniture, equipment, and other random bits, but sadly all have closed.

Nowadays I am down to one SV store on my short list that is still around, and they only sell office furniture and electronics workstations - neither of which I can use any more of. I'm hoping these types of stores are a trailing economic indicator and a fresh group will pop up soon.

Any there any other surplus/liquidation stores in the SF Bay Area still around (not the military surplus kind)?

[0] https://portlandrobotics.org/links_surplus.php?link_id=21
Why didn't you just click Change Directory in the Azure portal and go back to your personal AzureAD where you can create your app registrations?

What has happened here is that you have essentially two accounts: One is your consumer MSA, and the other is an account in the school's Azure AD instance that uses federated sign-in with an external account (your MSA). Except, the real mess comes from the fact that there's one login page for both, and sites such as the Azure portal that support both identities and can't really tell which one you expect to assume. Plus, the Azure portal lets you switch between Directories at any time.

You can:

* Sign out completely (login.microsoftonline.com/logout.srf) and sign back in. The reason the sign-in page asks for your sign-in email first is because then it uses that to decide which directory (MSA or someone's AAD) to sign you into

* Change directories - (in fact I'd recommend creating your own Directory instead of using the one that was automatically created for you from your MSA name)
That’s the thing: It can legitimately be useful for filling gaps in someone’s abilities and generating copy. The gurus use this kernel of truth to suggest that it can do everything for you, as long as you buy their $599 (limited time offer!) course and then get on a monthly payment to their private community where all of the secrets will be shared…
Does the laptop have knowledge of the screen angle, or does its calculations just assume an 'average' angle? Or does it not matter too much (it seems like it would to me)?
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pirates...
As of now, I'd argue ChatGPT has a lot of value for an average student who has to write an essay "by tomorrow".
Description of the service (made by OpenAI):

> The AI Text Classifier is a fine-tuned GPT model that predicts how likely it is that a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources, such as ChatGPT.

> This classifier is available as a free tool to spark discussions on AI literacy.
Microsoft's auth is needlessly aggressive at all edges - I had a Windows 10 gaming PC that I didn't create a live account for. Everything works fine, until I install Halo Infinite via Steam and have to log in with a Microsoft account which then causes the OS to also login with the same account. Absolute insanity that this is even possible.

At the end of the day its something I'm more disappointed than upset about. Its scammy, gross, and reflective of a company playing catchup by force.
What is "unreasonable", and regardless of the theoretical protections, are you at risk and do you have any practical recourse?

The scale of Civil Asset Forfeiture in the US suggests to me that large sections of US society are at risk and have no practical recourse.

Does the US having a written constitution actually help its society to retain their rights, or is it a fig leaf covering the rights you've already lost in practice, and an entitlement preventing society from changing rules that benefit those with power who exercise "rights" that ought not be so set in stone?

In practice, the state may compel speech from the powerless: https://thehill.com/homenews/3256719-47-states-require-the-p...

In practice, only some groups have the unalienable right to bear arms: https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...

In practice, qualified immunity means there's no way to hold agents of the state accountable for violating your rights: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/20/george...

In the UK, Parliament has stated its intent to abide by the European Convention on Human Rights. It's true that one parliament cannot bind the next -- at any time, the UK parliament may decide to repeal everything and change even the foundations upon which our country's laws are built. The checks and balances in the system (including the House of Lords) protect us from the over-reach of a poor choice of government. Even with a large majority, and a stated aim of repealing the Human Rights Act, the current government has found itself unable to dismantle the our protections to the degree it would like.

I don't think you can argue that the US constitution gives you an inherent advantage in maintaining your rights.
FWIW, ripgrep has a native build for Windows which is much, much faster than using grep or rg via WSL2. (I'm not sure how it compares to grep from MinGW/MSYS2.)
My last experience is an Asus Zenbook - long-lasting, thin and light, with plenty of RAM 32, windows 11.

Switched to Mac Air M1 6 months ago and it's much better: faster, no heat, no fan, instant start, no glitches with the lid closed, etc.
Given the state of Linux application naming, we're lucky it's not called GKCellP, so we'd have to find it via 'apt search kdeconnect' every time because we can't remember the name. (I'm looking at you, GKrellM. You too, Liferea. )
Typo attacks aren't just about typing the error by hand. They are often more about fooling human visual perception.

E.g. for a more large-scale attack, you could replicate the whole deno.land/x/ website, which is where people often copy-paste the import snippet from. And as the sibling comment points out, typo-ed dependencies can also be introduced into existing codebases via a PR.
That actually wasn't what he said. He said the hype around cryptocurrencies was comparable to the hype around AI. That's a very different statement than you're putting into his mouth. If you've ever read any of his books (they tend to be very good), you know that he's not a Luddite and has a lot to say about future technologies including AI.
Honestly, HN feels as close to Reddit as it has ever been. This isn’t bad advice. I may have to make this choice soon for reasons of sanity.
Yep sell shovels don't do the mining
These comments are doom and gloom from people who have read articles but haven't been there. I've reported over a dozen medium size leaks and not once has the company tried to come after me. They haven't all fixed them, and for those I haven't pushed, but most of the time they're grateful. If you're worried, contact Troy Hunt and have him be an intermediary for you, as others have suggested.
So? We should manage the application of AI. Accepting that the toothpaste can't be put back in the tube isn't the same thing as ignoring AI safety. Researchers don't know everything, and we're treating people's opinions as facts when they're anything but. Ultimately, the only way we're going to find the answers is not by constantly ruminating but by waiting to see what's going to happen.

Also, the examples that guy is using are hardly comparable. Contemplating overpopulation on Mars is not applicable to the real world. Contemplating how to manage the consequences of AI is. We are so far from so much as stepping foot on Mars that it's pretty ridiculous that someone thinks it's valuable to dedicate time to Martian overpopulation.
I think anyone with ambitions falls for these kinds of grifts at some point in their lives before realizing it’s bullshit and never getting sucked into them again.

When I was young and out of college I certainly fell for the trap of trying to build a startup and get super rich and become a cool tech bro. Read all the lean startup garbage and listened to anyone with a successful tech startup story. Fortunately the grift industry wasn’t as mature as it is today, so damage was minimal.

Nowadays, these content creators and course curators extract huge sums of money out of people and make themselves look more legit than ever. Young people need to be more wary but I feel they are more gullible than ever. Not a good mix.
If you want to see a real mess:

* Create a consumer MSA based on a Gmail account

* Invite that MSA into an AzureAD directory

* Try to sign in as that user to that directory.

Good luck!
This would not matter to the parent poster listening to Spotify, which is not a Dolby Atmos source.
Microsoft's dark patterns philosophy and how that translates into real-world user experiences is the worst I have ever seen. And since they are implementing these dark patterns into the OS it has the potential to make using Windows very difficult. I understand that, with knowledge, you can get around that.. But I dont see why anyone would want to any more.

Apple is really bad too, but there not as bad in the dark patterns market at least in the OS. But they are way strict with their walled garden approach to everything so I wont support them either.

Linux can be buggy at times, but I feel much safer using this OS then I do Windows or MacOS because Microsoft and Apple don't really seem to care to much about the ramifications of their end-user hostile decisions.
SPA Wars
We have billions of people in the world and many of them are on the web. 99,999% of hustlers will make next to nothing, but those that get popular will earn a lot just by the sheer volume of followers. And these success stories keep the hustler economy rolling.
No, it's not. From our frame of reference (which, in General Relativistic terms, defines a coordinate system with a time coordinate) it still happened 26,000 years ago.

If your friend tells you today about how they did X yesterday, would you also argue X happened today from your frame of reference?
That is true, zooming in on an airport won't let you see its features, you'll have to read its name and put it on the searchbox for that part of the map to be displayed. You'd expect that zooming in on an airport would allow you to see it, or at the minimum to be able to click on an airport to load it up.
Doesn’t tell me anything.

How does it work? What apps are compatible? How is the connection between devices set up? Wire guard? If not, then what?
How does it control apps and receive notifications?

At first it sounded to me like an alternative X11 thing

I hate it when projects/products only state what you can do (or at least what they envision), and not explaining the actual workings. Especially when data and access gets more and more important.

Same with I think it was postbox.. nice app, but they didn’t tell you that they need full access to your account, store “securely” on their server.. no thank you.
What phone do you have that has a battery that big?
Sure, but the main problem here is Apple/Google stores. Remove it there, and 99% of their users disappear.

Governments don't care much about Tor, for example, because they have very little leverage (and their law enforcement use it, but members of parliament also use Signal but can't admit it openly).
This is actually a perfect use-case IMHO.
Would love for these 8-year-old benchmarks to be updated & compared.

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
No, but at places like Ivy League schools it's a big reason why there is still preferential treatment toward athletes.
> The gradual ratcheting of pressure by the nanny-state DEA has doctors spooked.

The specific regulations referenced here aren’t new. They were only granted a temporary exemption during COVID, and now that is expiring.

The DEA literally loosened their regulations during this period, and now that is expiring.