skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super interested in this and would love to hear about some techniques. Used to work at a HealthTech co. We had an “appliance” that we’d send to doctor offices to integrate with other diagnostic machines on the network.

Sometimes we would send out new ones to replace the old. When we got the old ones back, it was always unclear how to purge and recommission SSD/NVME drives.

My best attempt was using GNU shred, but it wasn’t recommended for flash-based storage back then.
Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Language)
> People tend to compare these frameworks on things that don't matter - often it's performance.

I think I reflect the entirety of the user base of the internet when I say "fuck you" (not you in particular, just the trend of shitting on performance so we have apps running like it is 70's and tape drives on our gigahertz CPUs) here.
It's a huge endeavour, because the company would have to convince their stakeholders that this is not harmful for the company competitive advantage. Try to convince your company executives to opensource their code. If it's easy - then share your reasoning, maybe the world will listen, but most likely not, as secrecy is generally perceived as competitive advantage.
Always have. The emphasis on social structure and conformity, in conjunction with (generally) ignoring bullying and promoting athletics is a recipe for anxiety.
Hey if that’s what helps you sleep then that’s what helps you sleep. I’m just saying it’s against my principles.
Every time I read articles like this I lose faith in capitalism a little bit.

The oil industry knew about about green house gases for decades, the tobacco industry knew about lung cancer, and the sugar industry tried to blame fat in foods. And now this?

It's hard to dispute that capitalism has given us some amazing goodies (Disney, iPhone, instant noodles), but on balance I think it might be a net negative.

It feels like the incentives are all wrong. How can we trust the solutions they give us, when the solutions are pushed through for profit?
Decompression Depression
> You want to show something new to your customers / users without rerendering? Well sorry, that's impossible, regardless of any framework you use and you should
go back to UI development 101.

When you say “render” are you referring to what React means by “render”, that it will go through the whole virtual DOM cycle? Because it most certainly is possible to avoid that when using pure JavaScript. Why do you say it’s impossible? React’s fundamental problem with performance, and the whole reason people often don’t want to re-render is because React renders everything, then does a big diff on the DOM to compare it to what was rendered before, and then updates the elements that changed. I know a lot of work has been put into making that process fast, but it’s still really expensive compared to the pure JS way of doing it. In CS terminology, updating a button or any other single element went from an O(1) operation with JavaScript to an O(N) operation with React.
>It's working perfectly fine for Ukraine

No, because Ukraine needs to kill russians and destroy their war machine. Musk's actions prevents this.

>And Russians would die if he made the other decision.

Great!
You really think it’s ok for police to beat up people in their custody who are not an immediate threat?
How does this apply to our water filters inside our refrigerators?
Also see:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_ce...

https://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pd...

Edit: see section 3.2.2 in the PDF (and the corresponding table 2):

> In most cases, overwriting the entire disk twice was sufficient to sanitize the disk, regardless of the previous state of the drive. There were three exceptions: about 1% (1 GB) of the data remained on Drive A after twenty passes

This is about normal overwriting, however. The fastest random overwriting program on Linux I know of is `shred`
Anyone here actually find something that works for their anxiety?
Both look like ye olde PHP code mixed with HTML tbh.
Lol, sorry... you're wrong. The question was posed as:

>there any support in OpenBSD, or indeed any Unix-based desktop/server operating system

That's a wide swath and TPM 1.2 was finalized in 2011, saying "of course" was perfectly fair. It's one thing to say that such a device, perhaps a specific revision from a specific manufacturer, might not be supported on a specific release of an even more specific distribution... but that wasn't the case.

Trolling and quibbling over a common colloquialism such as using the phrase "of course" is not constructive.
For one second. Then, bacteria.
How even for your own account would a user get their average karma per comment if the true value of karma per submission is hidden? Meaning my assumption is the public HN submission karma is the sum of the upvotes alone, not “upvotes minus downvotes” which I believe is the true karma users receive from a submission.
> this particular article is simply about the details of a report created by the LA County Civilian Oversight Commission, so I'm not sure what attacks on Rolling Stone's (admittedly poor) credibility have to do with that

This article dances around these “gangs” being deputy cliques with allegedly violent tendencies, not actual infiltration by LA street gangs. That smudging makes the lack of evidence for those violent tendencies or refusal to provide back-up easier to digest.
As the story notes, none of these are revelations. They've been around since the 1970s; two of these gangs have Wikipedia pages, and there's a list page compiling reports going back to 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs.

The only news is that an official report is directly calling them "gangs". Previous official reports had merely called them "cliques", like this one in 2012 from the LA County's Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence: https://ccjv.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CCJV-Re...

The Executioners are the Compton station and known white supremacists; the county paid out $7M over a fatal shooting tied to the gang in 2019: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-20/lasd-gan..., https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/los-angeles-county-compto...

The Banditos are the East LA station: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fbi-investigating-...
I can't speak to what others have done / are doing, but there's movement within the general "building science" community to improve the documentation around home systems. As more technical devices get added to homes' mechanical systems (PoE, ERVs, whole-home dehumidifiers), it's important that new owners (or even you, as current owner!) have access to an operating manual for the home. Maintenance procedures and schedules, numbers for service technicians, general operating instructions and troubleshooting, etc.

(Of course my mind goes to "maybe there's a SaaS opportunity here?", but I suspect that if it's difficult to get people to even gather documentation about maintaining their home's systems, it'll be even more tricky to get people to pay for it.)
> A rogue AI might as well just kill everyone

How would it do that?
The problem with Jira...is that it isn't for you.

No really. It is a B2B company that sells an idea to large orgs. "Know what is happening for everything and where you will be in a month.

It is not "Enable your workers to work more efficiently".

Jira simply doesn't really care about the average dev or such. In fact, most orgs use such a wildly configured version that it is pretty absurd.

Let me give you an example: Most companies have a workflow: To Do > In Progress > Testing > Done.

Foundationally, Testing and In Progress are tasks done by different operators.
Jira doesn't, out of the box, conceptualize who tested a ticket and who developed it. It is all one field. You don't have seperate pointing for testing and development so you can't track QA capacity (Which is helpful to a team but not to overall planning as it just causes rushed QA).
You don't have historical views of prior sprints "What was that Ticket I worked on last sprint?" (because that means nothing for forward velocity other than the final number)
I could go on..but it all leads back to an absurd UI focused purely on projects and velocity above helpfulness. (And don't get me started on Jira's absurd take on SCRUM)
Honestly, I'm kinda shocked no major software company has not just built their own and knocked Atlassian out of the park. I'm sure tracking velocity of other companies would be highly...helpful for Google/MS.
Or you encrypt the entire drive. Then the secure erasure is a matter of throwing away the keys, and you don't have to bother with thinking through your threat model.
If there is a possibility for a simple test that gives a quick and precise answer, it could be better than someone asking someone and interpreting an answer.
If Russia was behind this attack to blame Ukraine, isn't it weird that they blamed UK first, then (after Hersh's article) Norway and US?

In fact, even now, they're refusing to accept the theory that Ukraine was involved.

I think you should question your thesis.
Yes, PDF-XChange is the best pdf software.
> The UVA rape story was blatantly obviously false to any male who read it

That feels like 20/20 hindsight. There were certainly plenty of males who did believe it. I'll fess up, I was one of them. I believed it for 2 main reasons:

1. The story was outlandish, but I thought "you'd have to be insane to lie about this, with this much detail". Well, yeah, in retrospect, insane people exist.

2. Since there was so much detail, I thought there was plenty of stuff that could have been easily vetted, and given Rolling Stone's reputation, thought "for sure they have researched this." I honestly didn't realize at the time about the story being "too good to vet" phenomenon.

Yes, I learned a valuable lesson about consuming information with a more critical eye, and mea culpa. But I know I definitely wasn't the only male who originally believed the story.
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also a prompt debugging and management tool
This is why you always want to use full disk encryption (FDE). Then it doesn't really matter whether some blocks are recoverable after TRIM. It also doesn't really matter whether the Secure Delete function works. It also doesn't matter whether the very expensive security-buzzword-compliant secure deletion snakeoil software really works.

Also, TRIM is only possible with drives that are still in working order. Very often you can't TRIM or secure delete a drive that is defective and returned by RMA. In that case you either need a very expensive no-disk-return support contract. Or you just use FDE.
It would be fascinating, to have a "slice" evaluation of CEO and executive employees in the know homes, to find out whether they use the stuff they sell themselves.
For what it's worth, I like the syntax of Lit. There are a couple of magic symbols ("@" for method, "." for property); but otherwise, it's plain javascript.

The DOM output that Lit produces, peppered with magic comments, looks disgusting though :-(
I use Solidworks professionally and for personal use I use SolidEdge. It's almost as good and is free for hobbyists. When needed, I can get a license on a monthly basis for $100. The other pro cad packages have really terrible license schemes which I want to point out. For example Solidworks starts at something like $5000 plus $1500 per year maintenance fee. If you don't pay the maintenance fee you can keep using the latest version you've paid for. But when you eventually need to upgrade to work with a customer, or fix a bug, you have to backpay missed maintenance fees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHllyrKUJ1o
Carmaking for Dummies
They sure do, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. We tend to call someone that is elected by the people 'elected'. Someone who gets decided on by these elected representatives we call appointed, they don't inherit the 'elected' attribute. If they did, essentially all political officers (e.g. high level workers in a government department) would be elected, because they were chosen by elected officials.

US supreme court judges get nominated and confirmed. The president is elected (well, kind of, but most agree that he/she is elected by the people even though the electoral college is mixed in there) and then nominates a judge and the Senate confirms the nomination. I don't think it's common to call the supreme court judges 'elected' though, despite their selection by two elected parties.
This is the kind of stuff that us laymen (relatively speaking, in the context of microbiology) find puzzling.

Another thing I never quite understood was how bacteria thrive in purified water anyway, to the point where they can form biofilm. Where do they even get the necessary nutrients?
> it is worse when the user can instantiate arbitrary components (say for a knowledge graph editor or a geospatial intelligence tool) that ‘listen’ to event changes.

Your application is effectively "anything can modify anything", which is the previous step to "anything modifies anything", I/E big ball of mud. React's answer to that is "keep all the state in a small component" (small ball of mud) or "keep the state in a tree" (one-direction bindings, prevent state graphs).

This makes React discourage (I/E makes harder and puts friction) graph-based state, as it is the most direct path to big ball of mud.

This doesn't solve your problem, but definitely helps push 99% applications away from the big ball of mud. The fact is that for your 1% case you need the big ball of mud, and, in your case, pushing away from it doesn't help.
Science fiction books that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy
I have not seen any links. They are rooted in Chicano communities, so I doubt it.
The glycemic load of fruit varies tremendously. You can find undomesticated fruit in the wild that is high-sugar / high-GI, and domesticated fruit (engineered over 1000s of years) that isn't. Fiber, micronutrient and phytonutrient content also varies, but in the main, they all provide health benefits.

> it's absolutely possible to give yourself diabetes just eating too much fruit.

It isn't, because that's not how it works. You get diabetes from obesity / high-calorie intake, not sugar. Sugar has deleterious effects but it will not in itself make you diabetic. https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/diabetes#diabetes4 , https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/diabetes-cause...
> If your UI is worse than free text, then time to improve it.

maybe even so that the time has run out because now we have a seemingly universal text-to-action middleware
YouTube relaxes profanity and monetization rules following creator backlash
The UV bulbs need to be replaced periodically. This was most likely negligence.
The Alarming Rise of India’s Pay-to-Breathe Industry
Facebook's llama model, which has already leaked out, lol.
Webapps and mobile apps really need two dark modes - the one you like, i.e. light grey text on dark grey background, and another one for AMOLED screens, that's actual light grey or white on pure black.

On AMOLED displays, that #000000 not only looks nice, it also saves battery, as it shuts the given pixel off. The difference is substantial - with modern UI trends that waste most of screen space, a "grey on pure black" color scheme can often keep more than 50% of the pixels off! Meanwhile, a typical "grey on grey" dark mode will keep 100% of them on.
You pedantry reinforces the point, rather than diminishing it.
While alarming I was also bothered by how short this article was on details.

Lots of “widespread” and similar quotes such but no solid numbers. Not much but lots of weighted / non specific language…
Indoor air is full of flu and Covid viruses
Yes. To provide a quick summary, the compiler generates multiple versions of the code, then at runtime does feature detection and picks the best supported implementation. Generally this will only be done for particular functions or blocks that will get a notable benefit from these extra instructions to avoid too much code bloat (unlikely to significantly affect performance but will raise binary size).
> I do wish we had a more neutral source than the Rolling Stone.

The wikipedia article on this cites several reputable looking sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
Reputation of leadership is only important for a public company when it negatively impacts the stock price. The market doesn't care about your reputation, it cares about the stock price...
But my comment did address the article's content...
This is just bullying. Please stop.
Sure, but in an ice machine the water is exposed to the air which also carries the bacteria.

Ice machines are notoriously filthy because they have tons of tiny spaces that never dry. I remember looking inside an ice machine at work and the inside was covered in a thin film of slime.
> That's NOT what i said, the FreeBSD MAC implementation is big and pretty much feature complete, NOT SEBSD.

It is what you said. I never said you claimed SEBSD.

You said FreeBSD has a massive MAC framework. I was asking which one, and the only one I know of is SEBSD, which is not at all massive.

You are saying now FreeBSD has its own MAC framework, but I've never heard of it. What is it called?

> There is no such thing as "inferior" but different approaches,

Well that's not true. A screen door vs a heavy deadbolted door is clearly an inferior approach, not just a different approach to security, and that analogy extends to OS security technologies.

MAC is the only system that can 100% protect against an attacker getting remote root.

> There is no such thing as "inferior" but different approaches,

I've been dealing with MAC for 20 years, so I don't find it hard at all, and if people are willing to put in the effort to learn it the reward is worth it. But this is a world where most people want to get home to watch their latest story instead of doing any kind of mental work, and admins are no different.
Define "neutral" and I can find one, because they've been reported on and named publicly for 50 years.

Here's a 50-page summary from Loyola Law School: https://lmu.app.box.com/s/uci2ir4mkpudtvvfp7z8iu4kv1gre1dj
Am I confused or is this an HR-approved meme generator?
A fictional story about the life and downfall of Jonathan “Jax” Jackson, a successful SaaS salesman who becomes increasingly disillusioned with the tech industry and the emptiness of his work.

Inspired by the original play, ‘Death of a Salesman.’
I can see my karma gain/loss for every single comment I make.
“ Our cluster demonstrates the risk for unintended consequences associated with systems designed to improve hospital water”

Sounds more like incompetence especially you are in a hospital setting
The country that pushed Turing to madness but let Jimmy Saville grow old.

Anyway Europe dedicated all it's resources to two world wars which left the field open for America.
Thankfully 1000 years of culture means we haven't been completely subsumed by them.
Maybe known corrupt locales should be subject to a similar interstate traveling circuit system as the one that judges followed (what the "circuit" in "circuit court" originally referred to—albeit for different reasons).

If the issue is police and sheriff's departments having roots in the crime world of LA, then perhaps the appropriate mitigation strategy is for those departments to be wholesale swapped out with ones that were previously operating in, say, Idaho. The idea is that what these regions need are law enforcement, and any PD or sheriff's department educated on local laws should do. All of the reasonable arguments against this that I can anticipate are ones that involve so-called problems that either have trivial solutions, or are actually just a collection of tremendous upsides only dressed up to seem bad.

Change my view.
With respect to Iain Banks, he's probably one of my favorite authors (both sci-fi and non-sci-fi).

With respect to the question of having consciousness and free will -- don't we all just reduce down to atoms obeying the laws of physics? Are our actions not therefore deterministic? Sure maybe there's some quantum uncertainty principles at work (but it's not like LLMs produce the same output every time either). So it's not at all clear how consciousness arises, and thus not clear that e.g. GPT-7 "cannot" be conscious.

The other part of this is as relates to the question of AGI and its risks -- there's lots of things that are not necessarily consciousness but are nonetheless extremely bad for humans. Viruses. Tigers. Fire (when not appropriately managed). And for the set of things on Earth we're pretty well equipped to handle them, but if the sun went supernova, screaming "nooo I'm conscious and you're not" would not prevent humanity from being wiped out.
> Whole genome sequencing ... revealed almost perfect matches of their M. abscessus isolates

How cool is it that in 2023 you can sequence samples from 4 patients as well as bacterial cultures found in separate ice machines and water sources to identify the source of an infection. Almost 30 years ago, when the first bacteria was sequenced, or 20 years ago, when the human genome project finished at a cost of $2.7B, or even 10 years ago, when sequencing cost more than $10,000 per run, this would have been unfathomable. But today it's a $600 routine expense, and it's perfectly reasonable to perform a dozen of them in the course of a large study.
Article says the machines were maintained.

It doesn't matter if you purify water then expose it to room air. It's going to get contaminated again.
And yet, entire ecosystems exist where this behaviour is not prevalent.
Sounds to me like a dirty ice machine was to blame and not the water.
>it's basically every company that's doing this

It's useful to distinguish between ideas, decisions, and actions.
Every idea, no matter how good/bad, far-fetched, that would make your company money has been considered.
It doesn't matter which company.
When a company decides what to do, they reject most ideas for a variety of context dependent reasons.
Reputation is one of those reasons.
Unfortunately the meaning and importance of reputation itself has been undermined by enormous reflowing of attention by screens and the remarkable credulity of people.

>Which feeds the next point: the problem ultimately is shaping laws to protect business models rather than consumer rights.

Greed is unbounded, restrained first by character, then by law.
This basic assumption is part of the fabric of the US, itself based in part on the analysis Adam Smith.
There has always been tension between greed and character+law, and modern fashion has weakened the meaning and importance of character to almost 0, so greed feels ascendant.
But I propose that greed is the same, only the countervailing forces are weaker.

This might seem like splitting hairs.
The value in the distinction is that you can let go of worrying about intrinsic human qualities like greed getting worse.
If that were true, it would be unsolvable.
You can instead worry about a fixable problem, like how "character" itself can rise back to prominence, and how the public's BS meters can be improved.

(Getting a big population to a reasonable standard is a lot of work, so any help appreciated.)
> return <button disabled="disabled">Submit</button>;

In JSX, the "disabled" attribute is a boolean; so it would be just:

return <button disabled={!isFormValid}>Submit</button>;
Multipass – VMs for macOS (arm included)
A friend of mine is technically on a different industry (water for semiconductor use) but he said that UV light is not really that effective, especially if a biofilm has grown. Even if everything works correctly and the setup killed stuff, it doesn't remove their corpses (only filtration can do that).

Edit: however it seems that the machines were maintained, so it might not be about this specifically.
Both Discord and MS Teams use React (afaik) and only one of them runs shit.

Both are not exactly light tho