skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren't worried about hurting themselves with AI, they're expressing that other people are too dumb or irresponsible to use it properly.

I'm less sympathetic to this concern. Not totally dismissive. I think some of the restrictions are fair for a company running a business. If you want to sell to other companies, make sure your bots don't use racial slurs, for example. But I don't think there's an ethical issue.
M1 Air user here too.

I am convinced there must be some kind of ‘spatial’ processing going on, even though I’m as certain as I can be that I’m listening to a plain stereo source, Spotify web version on Firefox.

Why does it sound like a particular instrument is up in the air to my right? I’ve found myself getting up and looking for the source of a sound before realising it was in the music.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304

Here are some features and settings that you can allow changes for:

Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode

Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords
I really hope you're right but I don't think it will play out that simply for mastodon. I have high hopes for it, hopefully these problems are solved but with this rate of growth, what will happen when there's a big political event that used to cripple Twitter back in the day? I don't think tips will cover it.
Upwork is a hellish abomination of a company. I did some contracting for them cca 7 years ago.

It all started with a final meeting with the CEO - the bald Greek guy with the same first name as me, who spent almost an hour of his (not so) invaluable time for the sole purpose of pushing me to drop my rate from $45/h to $40/h. Ultimately we agreed, but on the condition that it is a 20h/week assignment, so that I have time for properly paid work.

3 weeks later I got fired for only doing 30h/week. Even back in the day, when I first read the e-mail I chuckled :D :D :D
>Basics of networking, how installation of programs happens, how to use the command line, that kind of thing.

um yea thats my job dude and i fought for it so other people should too these people waltzing in not knowing shot should not get into CS
Laser shooting eyeball creature. I survived the blast but my stuff was destroyed or scattered everywhere and I wasn’t armed well enough or healthy enough to get out of it.
Some phones have a keypad scrambler to somewhat mitigate this sort of thing. At least from a distance.
It’s not a punishment: it’s simply reaping the benefits of the promised sunlit uplands, after he removed the ability of so many others to move.
Maybe some weirdness is cleared up by noting that besides being an indication that upgrades haven't been necessary for a while, really old software often gains additional resilience to attacks by becoming more obscure with age. Targeted efforts are warded off somewhat by the unfamiliar attack surface and mass scanners typically won't be looking for ancient services.
This is only tangentially related, but Im curious if you found anything about the typical length of time between systems being compromised to when intrusions are discovered as part of your work - if you would like to and are at liberty to share :)
> They just weren't tracking you every nanosecond of your life.

Exactly.

But only some of that was paid by ads.
Yeah I guess the next like 25% of the value I get from vim comes from "df(" and "ct)" type commands.

Also "dd" and "p" a lot to move lines around and "J" to consolidate them.

So maybe I do use a pretty large amount of functionality pretty frequently :)

I've been thinking maybe that other comment nailed it and most of us who downplay how useful it is to really learn vim have just already done that and forgotten that it was really useful.
A month ago, Hector did an amazing talk on Asahi that was essentially was a talk on "What it takes to make an open source project work": community, tooling, considering users (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlvP4hODpY).

And one of the examples he gave regarding "considering users" was why they chose to disable speaker support until they could ensure user safety, as well as ensure a quality sound experience.

When discussing open source projects and communities in academia, we often try to categorize every aspect, as well as focus on projects that failed and why. I try to do the opposite and instead focus on what worked and why - and the Asahi project is a stellar example of how to do an open source project well on every level.
> If it was a few decades ago, the kind of things happening in these chats would have happened in person or on the telephone with nobody necessarily recording it.

Or on paper, maybe by memo. And they would have destroyed the paper evidence just the same, and claimed helplessness in the face of so much paper that had to be kept, and that the suspicion of their motives amounts to being convicted before trial. Same sort of arguments, except for the people handling paper holding on to data wasn't a matter of getting a few people to click around for a few days, it was wrangling dozens of banker's boxes of paper. Trucks and warehouses.

> It's kind of weird that we've turned formerly ephemeral things into "evidence" just because they could optionally be stored.

This is literally what evidence is. It's something that you carefully collect and store to review later in connection with something else. You don't have to "store" the knife you stabbed somebody with or the gun you shot someone with (you've already got enough use out of them) but if somebody destroys them, they're destroying evidence. Even if you threw it out with the kitchen trash, and you always take out the trash on Thursdays.
Likely a similar situation - either you or your client would be entitled to the money, but enforcement is impossible because of the prohibitive costs.

We have a few clients in the US and I’m always factoring in this issue when making contracts with them. If they decide to not pay a small to medium sum, collecting it will be impossible most of the time if they don’t have a subsidiary in Germany.
I do. It’s harsh but accurate in my opinion.
Can you give more details on the "1 TB per user pool for shared office resources"? I always thought there was a user-level limit of 1 TB for OneDrive, and a organization-level limit of 1 TB + (10 GB)*(number of users) for Sharepoint.[0]

And I've never found any documentation as to whether shared OneDrive folders count against the owner's quota, all of the users with permissions quota, or the sharepoint quota.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescripti...
Is the average .net developer terrified of F# because they're not talented enough, or because it's different?
I am going to be less generous and suggest that some people just want to hate on macs for the sake of hating on macs. Sticking it to the “man”.

I’m a bit obsessed with audio.. and I never expect my laptop speakers to match the quality of my fancy headphone setup that probably nets for about $4K.

They are no high-end speaker, but compared to any other laptop speaker I have heard they are amazing.
Good luck parleying that position when the boot is on the other foot in a few decades.
Laptops for the enterprise markets are better for the enterprise market.

They are often relatively easy to repair (at least for the most common repairs). They offer 5 years and longer warranty contracts with on-site repairs. They offer driver and software package for automated deployments and more.

Most of these things are not important for the consumer market but very important for the enterprise market. There isn't a product that is the perfect fit for all markets.
> It's clearly more conducive to solving problems to be able to move around our environment more quickly.

Then vim ain't it.

My "vim-empowered" colleagues spend significantly more time trying to find symbols, related configs and tests, function definitions and interface implementations than I do. Because their hodge-podge collection of vim plugins and extensions rarely amounts to anything more than a full-text search across the whole project.

But sure, you can count the number of lines where you need to go and then the number of characters/words you need to move in the line and code it in 3 characters. By the time you've done that I've clicked there with the mouse, found the definitions and done project-wide refactoring.
Currently sitting on a taxiway at Heathrow. Can confirm this is very accurate (at least for LHR!). Very nice!
The headline was clickbait then. I thought it was like 50 people.
> Is it necessary to learn Vim?

Though I no longer program, I am still a huge VIM enthusiast, but no it is not necessary to use VIM. I just love it because it made me more efficient, but at times I think that writing code really really fast might actually be a bug and not a feature.

For editing code it's amazing though. People looking over my shoulder used to think I was a wizard.
Occasionally a post will show up that is just three asterisks: "* * *". I assume it's some bug in the HN software.

Edit: I just tried opening this reply itself in a private window, and it shows up as three asterisks. I presume it's some kind of placeholder for posts that have not been cached/processed somehow

Edit 2: Now it loads properly, 3 minutes later.
Hydrogen sulfide rapidly desensitized the nose, it wouldn't be surprising for other sulfur compounds to do the same.
IIRC, FaceTime can fall back to the device passcode in some circumstances.
There are blackhat hacking forums with a better reputation and fraud protection system than Upwork. If all it takes is a “bot army” to make a profile seem legit, they’ve created this problem for themselves.
Ah, politicians, consultancies, spooks, and civil servants all failing to understand cryptography. How novel.

It really is a shame that we do this. It is symptomatic of an inordinate amount of ineptitude in our ruling class, and goes back centuries. It is strange to see that it is mostly the English speaking world that suffers from this, too. Why are we so different?
More like US's army defense system, the US is building a giant fleet of satellites with spying capabilities

I find it interesting that the press keep saying "Musk's Starlink" in their headlines, they really want to make sure you don't question the association

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-space-exploration-spacex-...

We got a taste of it in Ukraine
Hi there commenter here. Thanks for writing the article, I will return on it maybe in a year or so. I started learning Clojure this year and it’s quite a journey. But functional programming is the future I’m convinced. Cheers.
Splitting a string into multiple lines in Solidity: How hard can it be?
F is for Flags, they be of red.
> Doesn't have an app

It does have an app. See https://joinmastodon.org/apps for not only the official app, but also literally dozens of third-party apps.
US Military Failings Exposed
> would involve 10 minutes of drudge work in their simplistic editors, instead opting for "deploy & pray" when the task was totally doable in a couple of seconds with a Vim macro.

I really very much doubt this. Sounds like an application of rose-tinted glasses and wishful thinking to some one-off task that then is extrapolated to all tasks.
> hey, China bad gets clicks and upvotes

You do realize that the South China Morning Post is a Chinese paper, right?

(Yes it's officially headquartered in Hong Kong, but the distinction is moot after 2020. Besides, it's been owned by Alibaba since 2015.)
> You don't think there are people on "barista wages" who have saved up for a nice guitar and amp, or a gaming PC, a car that was a little fancier than they needed, or some kind of small vacation?

What does that have to do with people on "barista wages" spending $1000 on a coffee machine? Never happened unless they thought they were going to set up business with it.
Aren't you confusing Phoenix and Ecto here?

I'm familiar with neither Rails nor Django so I dont fully follow what you're describing. Are you just talking about the difficulty of maintaining the schema/DB mapping with the migrations ran against the DB?
NYC already had mail tunnels that were shutdown to use trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
I cannot empasis how true this is. The classic UNIX problem was that the LPT printer daemon has an issue (it had lots and lots). But, none of your systems were running LPT, but you still had to patch 1000+s of systems just to maintain a security policy.

What's different between full on UNIX systems and Docker, the possibility of deploying code based on scratch images. Imagine a system which only had the pieces necessary to run in production, your security exception reports would go to zero.
How much does it cost to train a state-of-the-art foundational LLM?
Taxes are one of these mechanisms. It’s just political suicide to vary the tax rate like this.
I had money disappear out of my NatWest account several years ago, when I lived in the UK. No transaction was present to show where it went. Nobody at the bank would speak to me about it, not to this day. I'm talking making it obvious that they didn't want to speak to me about it. That was one of many incidents where I was blatantly ripped off. Nobody there cared one bit.

EDIT: thanks for all the replies! That means something to me, I'll see if I can't get this sorted out. It's just weird that even the NatWest Twitter customer support account ignores my DMs.
I have difficulty parsing out the actual substantial complaints about the fediverse in this article. The "I don't want to interact with some unpleasant people" problem seems to be already solved by killfiles and per-community moderation (as the author says). With this there of course come disagreements about who to peer with ecetera (as the author says). But this just comes with the nature of a federated system. What would be a better solution, downgrading again to having one higher authority?

The argument then seems to boil down to, that this does not lend itself well to marketing the platform. But this is a general issue with technologies, which require some thought to use (An unsolved problem, I suspect the issue lies with the people and not the technologies. Better education anyone?). Although the pointers on which language might better describe the thing when doing the social wrangling of marketing it seem quite useful.
Someone further up suggested some Screen Time workarounds that could help in certain cases which seems interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34936304
The outlook for devs hypothesised in this article is pretty bleak.

I'm sure it is just coincidental it is on a site (dev recruitment) that will benefit from a new humility in that trade.

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/
Actually, I did indeed blow out the left speaker on my back then new MacBook Pro late 2016 - no tweaks to the hardware or software. It happened while I was experimenting with Ableton and the synth operator. I think I held a pure sine tone at either 66.6 Hz or 82.222222 Hz for an extended period at near-maximum volume, possibly with some frequency modulation. Sadly, the speaker became permanently distorted as an aftermath of that little mishap.
I believe Rufus lets you bypass microsoft account setup on windows 11 when creating a bootable USB

https://rufus.ie/en/
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34923075 Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption (bbc.com)
Many things have made engineers more productive in my working lifetime, yet there still more of these pesky software engineers than ever!
I agree, I come in 5 days a week and not having a dedicated space would make that experience much worse. I wouldn't rejoin the Cloud PA with this policy in place, and I imagine plenty of people will leave when the tech industry turns around again.
Agree. It goes against my grain to seem in support of anything FANG companies do, but this is just a logical extension of the WFH trend. One of the reasons it will stay is that it enables corps to save on office space, and Google is simply ahead of the curve: the businesses that realize this cost saving effect first will have an advantage. Most employees will likely see the small discomfort as a fair price to pay for being able to work from home many/most days. (Not counting the vocal minority that seem to love commuting, office work, mingling and watercooler chatting).
Fabulous paper, I had no idea that Ramanujan's divergent series sum 1 + 2 + 3 ... = -1/12 is used in the derivation of the equation of the Cashmir effect! (p. 2, eq. 3)
If the whizz-kid and his fancy AI make you get wrong results that may bankrupt you or make you end up in jail, well you may have been better of with the abacus. But as always the temptation if too high; for some hope is indeed a strategy
Indeed. While I think learning algorithms and ds is a non-negotiable thing, in 90% of the companies out there in 90% of the situations one will never have to write a binary search from scratch or implement a queue from scratch. On the other hand, profiling, debugging, glueing things together via bash, etc., that’s what distinguishes you from the colleges who only write passable code.
I'm a little disappointed by this article. After all, I'm sure the author knows that anything that stinks with sulfur can be made stinkier by substituting selenium! Selenoacetone is worse than thioacetone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU
> It isn't being US centric, the search only supports airport codes.

It supports searching for other parts of the name (or closest (big-ish) city that airports tend to name themselves after).

However, the search seems to not work with spaces, so can only search for one word in the name, it seems.
I wonder about that. Let’s take wood pellets, the largest market of which being converted coal-fired plants in Britain and Germany.

Texas and North Carolina produce them for export. Under perfect conditions, waste sawdust becomes pellets but it’s understood in those states that old-growth timber is used.

Shelled corn burns hotter than wood, and biomass pellet stoves make up a marginal part of the domestic heating market. For export, where heating and power generation are disrupted by war, shipping that corn seems a good transitional step without the harm associated with somehow discovering new sources of wood pellets.
"Endpoints" on Aptible are load balancers. So you would pay for each load balancer your API needs (usually just 1), not every API endpoint. Thanks for the feedback on that — we will update the language to be clear that these are load balancers, not API endpoints.

We don't provide a solution for implementing SSO in your own application, but many of our customers do integrate with Auth0 without issue. For your own team's access _to Aptible_, we offer SSO through SAML integration with any provider (Google, Okta): https://deploy-docs.aptible.com/docs/sso
I wonder how much energy/CPU all this uses compared to not monitoring and compressing the sound channels per speaker. It seems like “don’t run the daemon and let it go to -14db” is a valid option if it’s problematic though. I don’t really listen to music, I’m just looking forward to terminal dings and conference calls without headphones so will lean towards battery life.
You are not disproving his claims, 35% of the households being homeowners means absolutely nothing without knowing how many live as rentees for example. Also am I an houseowner if I paid 90% of the mortgage? 'Massive numbers' can mean anything between 0.01% and 99.8% depending on where you live, who are your friends and coworkers etc.

All that being said, it sounds just like any other western country, or in fact any country in the world apart from very, very few. Welcome to 21st century, you have mostly FED to thank for this, everything else just snowballed in its bad decisions.
I've seen this attitude so many times and it has never ended well.

Odds are that the people who do the work have an order of magnitude better understanding of the bigger picture than someone whose role is to portion out work in small bites.
> The class is being run during MIT’s “Independent Activities Period” in January 2020 — a one-month semester that features shorter student-run classes. While the lectures themselves are only available to MIT students, we will provide all lecture materials along with video recordings of lectures to the public.

It seems that the course is only 1 month and runs alongside some student-run classes. So this is from the get go not an essential course of a CS program.
Apple Responds to Report About Thieves Spying on iPhone Passcodes
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/11...

Tags:

addr:city=Denpasar
aeroway=aerodrome
iata=DPS
icao=WADD
name=Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai
name:de=Internationaler Flughafen Ngurah Rai
name:en=Ngurah Rai International Airport
name:fr=Aéroport International Ngurah Rai
name:ko=응우라라이공항
operator=PT. Angkasa Pura I
short_name=Bandara Internasional Ngurah Rai
type=civil
wikidata=Q1061846
wikipedia=id:Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai

Colloquial names can be added with the various name tags:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_n...
(I'm assuming the search is sourcing data from OSM).
Will be fun to watch people argue with these bots if they don't get the correct result.

Not to mention how answers changes if the model changed.

Tried it multiple times on real problems I needed to solve and all answers were nicely written with code examples and explanation but completely wrong.

And it got worse after I tried to correct it.

From my point it's useful if you ask for something that could be copy and pasted from Stackoverflow but not new solutions that weren't already written down somewhere.
True, but you can customise it a lot. So the number of UI elements is not a problem.
This drives me nuts. And I always remind myself not to fall into this behavior but can't help it with the sheer volume of alerts.
Get another job in secret
Actually with advanced cryptocurrencies this is false. One can build an escrow system that uses a stablecoin and does not require a third party. (It's also possible to build in different types of public arbitration if you want.)
I think H1B visas might be the perfect choice for your company. Import highly experienced resources from third world countries that dream of living in the US. Pay them subsistence salaries. Let the resources know that you will terminate their visa if they complain about low pay or high workload. Win win for everyone!
> but seriously for the money, no one touchs what MS is offering right now. Google had MS hands down 10 years ago, and let google apps die on the vine

You're right, for the money MS gives the user a lot of fairly crappy products (other than the office desktop suite). Google was positioned to own this, and they let is drop. It shows what it means to be a product driven company (MS) vs. whatever Google does nowadays (milk search ads?).

There are teams of people in MS whose only job is to think about how to package something for sale. If Google had a single person doing that they would have beat Slack before it got huge, and could have owned office collaboration software as it all moved to the web.
I wouldn't describe the speakers on the M1 I use as amazing. It's more or less as bad as the speakers of previous laptops I used.

I mean, it is a speaker. Good enough for simple sound feedback on most applications. Music on it sounds bad.
That implies there is a single factor that “causes” inflation. That’s not true. There are always inflationary and deflationary impacts on prices.

Oil and boomers leaving the workforce and covid derailing shipping and monetary policy and 1000 other things can all be pushing up prices at the same time.
Affirmed by gross mass-proliferation of automated ticketing machines on UK roads.