skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some enterprises provide their employees with a physical smartphone. So they end up carrying 2 devices with them (1 personal, 1 business). Cophone is a complete replacement for the second one.
https://archive.is/pxBre
It means that people are willing to pay for apps. As with any product endeavor, success isn't evenly distributed — a small percentage of developers ("small" or not) are making interesting and/or useful apps that have achieved product/market fit. The rest follow Sturgeon's law and/or don't know how to find their audience.
I find it odd to phrase it as "move on" given the direction much of the rest of the world is headed. Anytime things become digitized, the centuries of civil and social rights, rights which people fought and died for, end up getting completely thrown to the wayside. The exact same would happen to money.

In some ways we're already seeing the foreshadowing of this in some of the previously most liberal places on Earth, like Canada. Even if one may not agree with what the truckers were protesting about, it seems unconscionable to freeze people's bank accounts as punishment for engaging in, or supporting, a completely and genuinely peaceful protest. [1]

[1] - https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy...
Only the software industry can create gatling footguns like this :)
Yes, surveillance capitalism has been an incredibly destructive force for the past several decades, and it shows no sign of stopping.
An interactive SDXL settings guide
It would be interesting to see how it solve AI Planning Problems like BlocksWorld[1]. I've read that in the past with these things[2][3] when multiple goals needed to be met at once and there was interaction between them, it just falls over itself. Being able to generate coherent plans and execute them, as I understand, an important aspect of generating Action Sequences given a State and thus for planning in robotics. How are these overcome in RT2?

P.S.: I also was told that the key here is that in automated planning you can't have a human in the loop doing the actual learning. If you are going to prompt engineer or get a human in the loop to a degree that you effectively fool yourself that the robot is solving a problem then its not planning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussman_anomaly
[2] https://chat.openai.com/share/16a8a0e9-7422-41da-a192-6393cc...
[3] https://twitter.com/rao2z/status/1599462959788744704?s=20
It's not easy being unpopular, but it sure is interesting :)
Yes, meeting someone in person, like at a meetup, even for 5 minutes, will get you 100% better responses than trying to force a connection without even having met the person before.

Alternatively asking someone you know in person to introduce you to the person. You're trying to connect with.

Doing “networking” cold without any personal connections rarely leads anywhere valuable.
https://archive.is/d94ac
i'm not an expert here but each message is pretty important right? What happens if you put a UDP datagram on the wire and it never shows up? Wouldn't you have to come up with some kind of signal to indicate the message made it to the receiver? After that you'll probably start signaling delivery of groups of messages instead of individually and then ordering them on the receiver by when they were sent and then maybe some validation of integrity and sender backoff mechanism for network congestion... and then you've made TCP.
I can understand that argument due to the nature of Tor, but if you use it as a communication medium only, how is different from using non-Tor internet or a cell phone. Yet, no one seems to argue that you are one of those nefarious internet or cell phone user. I think the argument is solid. The fact that is is not commonly used makes it a niche application. If it was more widely adopted, all those 'bad things' would likely be on par with regular phone/net issues in terms of volume.
The prices of the phone keep going up as they lock in more users
> They are as a rule extremely competitive — more competitive, I'd say, than highly competitive non-nerds.

I’m a somewhat non-traditional ‘nerd’ having grown up with sports and competitive recreational activities.

One thing that gets taught over and over again in youth sports and even adult competitive activities is the importance of sportsmanship. People who display poor sportsmanship are admonished, shamed, penalized, or even excluded from competition. Everyone learns one way or another that poor sportsmanship is bad, or at minimum that it is a risk to their reputation and ability to compete.

I’ve had to learn the hard way that many of the most competitive ‘nerds’ in industry have no such sense of sportsmanship. They are out to win and to become the alpha nerd at any cost. Anyone who gets in their way can end up in the crosshairs and the tactics can be exceptionally dirty. In most cases this translates to nasty office politics, but I’ve also witnessed some ‘competitive nerds’ try to engineer character assassination of their enemies or, in the wildest case I’ve ever seen, fabricate a literal crime and try to pin it on their workplace peers (that person got caught and went to prison).

Now when I come across ‘competitive nerds’ I’m extra cautious to not appear to be too threatening to their assent to alpha nerd status, lest I end up in their crosshairs in the next round of office politics. Only after I’ve worked with someone long enough to understand their intentions will I risk entering friendly competition with a peer nerd.
I am seeing a pattern here and I am starting to believe that Sam Altman is an Accelerationist:

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

A lot of his actions, investments and marketing strategy seem to point in that direction.
Anonymity is one of those things that if you do not fight consistently for, will be eventually taken away from you. I fail to envision a society where anonymity doesn't really matter for most people because as long as there is a society, it'll imply there is a control structure. And as long as there is a control structure, it'll keep on dictating what you can and cannot do. Unless you unreasonably assume that such a structure will always, without a fail, be perfectly correct, in the event that you disagree with it, you're certain to be in trouble.
I'd like to reiterate once again, there is a distinction between morality and legality. For instance, it's never immoral to bring wrongdoings to light, and yet, it's horrendously illegal to expose classified government secrets, even if they are terrible.
It's hard to pick up on as an American, but "French Tacos" actually don't have any genealogy in common with Tex-Mex tacos. They're essentially north African shwarma (lamb kebab, fries, cheese sauce, lettuce shoved in a wrap) re-marketed in a way that doesn't invoke knee-jerk racism from the French mainstream. Calling them "tacos" lets them get away with being exotic, and since the average Français doesn't really have any preconceived notions about Mexico or Mexican food either way it doesn't conjure up any negative associations. Calling them "Le French Tacos" is even more re-assuring -- they're tacos, but 'frenchified', so they must be OK.

But that same light-skinned frenchman would turn up his gallic nose an authentic arabic shwarma, even stumbling from from le bar at 2am. That the only difference between a good shwarma and a good French taco is /maybe/ the choice of cheese makes no difference...

(Source: live in Toulouse, have snarky Lebanese friends)
I subscribed but when I try to login I am getting this error:

> Something went wrong. If you forgot your password, you can reset it.

When I try to reset it I get a link and the link leads to an empty page.

Any idea what can be the issue?
They are doing fine for the casual user and you can't beat the price.

However, as I started using it more professionally a few years ago, there are some real problems with long standing bugs in some areas.

My biggest complain at the moment is Art Boards. I use them for almost all my work. Allows me to work much faster when working on a suite of related projects.

However, they are the most broken of all features. Probably half of all the Affinity photo live effects are broken in art boards. Also, not sure which is worse, Affinity or the users. I've opened so many bugs on art boards, to have users push back and say it is not a bug and then Affinity ignores it. They say it is not a bug because most don't use art boards as they never grasp the use case.
Compared to what, though? If Teams can be had for free, that's the baseline they have to fight against.
Imagine if I was under investigation for drug trafficking, or tax fraud, or whatever have you. “He had Tor on his computer to access the Dark Web” is extremely strong jury bait even though it doesn’t intrinsically mean anything. The government might not be able to prove what, if anything, I did - but I'll still probably look pretty dang guilty just for having it.

The other downside would be how trying to be secret can shine a spotlight - kind of like the bomb threat at that school (I’m forgetting the name). The student used Tor, but was quickly identified… because nobody else on the school network used Tor. (Make no mistake - I’m glad the student was caught - I’m just taking about how trying to increase your privacy can backfire.)
It is not a question about the app being cloud based or local, it's more a question about the openness of the file format. With a standardized file format you can always change to another software.
Turning off "fullscreen optimizations" doesn't always work. It may not even be possible for DirectX 12.
If you press Start and the taskbar appears, its not fullscreen.
I wrote a simple Direct3D test program and entering fullscreen using alt-enter prevents start from appearing so DirectX 11.0 at least still supports fullscreen, for now.
> And only use chains when forced by co-workers who won’t deviate from a generic “American” menu.

Completely tangential, but a local Korean place (Haru K-BBQ) has fried chicken as one of the “Western” items. However, the fried chicken itself is a reason to go because they do such a nice take on this item.
Esperanto ET-SoC-1 – 1,088 RISC-V/Tensor Processor CPU (2022) [pdf]
Hello no, don't tell them anything of that sort. This isn't university; this is real life full of unfairness and hidden discrimination. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901303&p=2#36903751
Yep, fire the devs after they've built the software. Fire them because the software is already built. Slowly your software grinds to a halt and dies because you release features too slow or your software starts to become very bad.
Systemd 254 released, deprecating sysvinit scripts
Why oh why do the people who care a Very Much Lot about privacy assume everyone else does too, or should on some moral axis? Like the very nature of not thinking of privacy as some value worth maximizing is in and of itself an Evil Act?

Why does the idea that people are free and reasonable to give up an amount of privacy for convenience (or entertainment) break their brains so thoroughly?

And why does it come in the form of insults and belittling language, such as this submission?

You should be free to be private, I'll defend that to the ends of the earth, but I'm also free to not be quite as private, and if you won't defend that to the ends of the earth in kind, what's that about?
A mix of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI and sourcehut builds. Maybe happiest with sourcehut but mostly happy with all three.
How risky is it to implement RPKI [1] in an ISP? If I push my tiny ISP to add it is there a chance they knock everyone off the local tiny ISP and if so for how long on average? I should add they have a skeleton crew network engineering team.

[1] - https://isbgpsafeyet.com/
Each country has its own propaganda. It's naïve to think that America doesn't have a propaganda and one is not influenced by it. We need a website that lists all of them (in markdown format).
An interview with Ian Bell (2013)
> What makes some actor who showed up for 1 day on a film worthy of getting income from future works? What about the guy who made breakfast for them? How about the electrical who installed the light bulbs?

Contracts. It's not about fairness. It's about what you can negotiate. If the electricians' union wants the same deal and can get it, good luck to them.
Related:

https://www.esperanto.ai/products/
I would still probably refuse at this point, on grounds of having done this in the past and being "ghosted", even though there was prior conversations.

If a company is interested in me, they won't make me jump through hoops. On the other hand, I'm quite experienced and popular in the job market, so things might be different for other folks.
Well, to give you my POV - my company is still hiring because the business fundamentals are still strong. We're making money and using that money to pay people. But I have friends in network who had to lay off because they were hiring against VC cash instead of revenue, with the expectation of raising another round later. But they now don't expect to be able to raise that next round so easily so they have to slow their burn rates.

Money WAS cheap and easy for a while, and with everyone trying to use that money to grow, you could throw cash around easy to hire/poach/etc. and had to compete heavily for talent. Now you can't, money is much more expensive and tougher to get and you have to be more deliberate.
I got explicitly failed from a first round interview because I took too long to solve a graph traversal problem. I reasoned my way through and got to the optimal solution, the interviewer confirmed that it was the optimal solution, then said I "should have recognized a variant of Dijkstra's algorithm" and that I had failed for not knowing it in advance.

Personally, I think developing it from scratch shows more promise than memory, but a lot of employers are looking for the inverse right now, IME.

edit: and this was not a FAANG, this was a startup with a single digit number of employees!
I don't think so. You can support free access to knowledge through means other than IP infringement. For example, advocating for open access policies. Many publishers agreements allow authors to post a version of the same publication on their personal website. Making that process easier and indexing those results to make it easier to find freely available versions of published work is another way to encourage access.
How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti
I’m curious what maximization function you are considering
Sorry for that, I'm checking it.
https://archive.is/JUgXQ
Propaganda is propaganda, whether or not one appreciates the outcome, so yes, that would be one example.
I'm not arguing that the system isn't broken although not all content creators endorse and use Sci-Hub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Propaganda_by_country
The “horror” is that you will only live to eat a fixed number of meals, so why on Earth would you waste one of your “meal slots” eating food at a chain that’s no better than reheated leftovers in your fridge?
My understanding is that all of the safeguards worked as intended and characterizing them as 'failed' is a bit unfair.

The three that "failed" were designed to prevent the bomb exploding on the runway (before take-off), on the plane (before being dropped), or in the air (before the plane could escape).

Since this event involved a plane taking off, dropping the bomb, and the bomb parachuting to the ground - it was largely indistinguishable (to the bomb) from an actual intentional event. Only the cockpit Safe/Air/Ground selector prevented detonation.

Note that the cockpit selector did fail in other incidents, arming bombs while still in the 'safe' position due to a short circuit elsewhere.
Tech leaders colluding with the government by abusing the H1B program and ultra-lax enforcement of anti-trust laws to absolutely crater tech salaries has been the name of the game for 15+ years.
Because tossing a coin was too hard.
haha! Oddly enough... my middle name is Sam no less!
But what'd you do with Ansible on a router? Looks like VyOS has REST API and OpenFlow support, btw.
>I have yet to find something which lets you get a good peek at that data. Does anyone know of anything?

You don't need Tor to avoid advertisers. Blocking all cookies and browsing in private mode will get you 99% of the way there. Throw in an ad-blocking VPN and there's basically nothing anyone can know about you that you aren't explicitly sharing.
Wow. Just wow. I am utterly envious.
No new papers since 2020? :( Maybe because of that I didn't find a paper I wanted to read.
How does the nexus project work? I dont use telgram and dont want to download an app or create an account for one paper. Is it possible to access the nexus project thru the web and just simple download from there instead? Or is there any other web sites like sci-hub on the web that have newer papers than 2020?
New Poster Designs
Doesn’t seem like running Signal on a phone hosted in someone else’s data center is the smartest thing to do.
What channels did you use to advertise? Can upwork be a good starting spot?
Bro, no one with a clue goes to Texas for tacos. Maybe Cali, but I don't bother for the most part in the US. Am Mexican
Behold the power of the free market, and the inability of the government to do anything right!

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Wait a minute
Sorry, I wasn't totally clear in my question... I was looking for your opinion on OrganTeq!
> we both know they won’t be.

Not true, you don't speak for what I know.

> show me examples of these good targeted ads because while in theory they could exist, something tells me they very much don’t.

The non-profits in my area (which is very low income) would very much like to target my local community better/cheaper.
https://archive.is/rkT9X
This is probably politically incorrect, but there was always a path to end AIDS, just like there was and is a path to end syphilis and gonorrhea. That path is safe sex: get tested, check your partner's test, wear condoms if you're both clean, and abstain from sex if you are infected. Venereal diseases continue to exist because selfish people put lust ahead of science and hygiene. People refuse to change their behavior, and, because (not "so long as") they refuse, there will be no end to venereal disease of any sort. Sure, there are edge cases of transmission by blood transfusion or something else non-sexual, but the vast bulk of cases are from irresponsible sex.
Corresponding article where they also describe RT-2 and their visit: https://archive.is/DoeyT
> And as others have pointed out, Tor wouldn't scale if everyone was using it. Contrast this with I2P which not only would scale but become more resistant to DDOS attacks with the more nodes on the network.

One objection a lot of people in this thread have to using Tor is the (misconception) that they'll be relaying Tor traffic. (It doesn't work this way in Tor.) But what you're saying is that i2p will scale because this is the default behavior in i2p. But is that what people want?

Also, hidden services have been harder for Tor to scale than exit nodes, at least in the past few years. I don't think this is the result of the fact that Tor provides exit nodes. I think it's just a result of the onion service connection process being a series of fragile steps.

I do agree that supporting traffic to the web results in the Tor dev team prioritizing this use case over traffic to hidden services, but that's understandable given that it's the vast majority of their traffic and usage.
As an example, if you're say, Venmo, your ACH batches won't contain information about the individual p2p money movements of your customers.
Except they aren't comparing straight price.

Here's the quote again.

> There's simply no reason to choose Android - iPhone does everything better, for the same price.

The person you replied to, then replied

> I'm sorry, but - "for the same price"? You must live in a very different place than I do.

They are saying that android phones don't have to cost the same as iPhones for the same functionality. A point you made for them by having to compare a pro of one to a bigger screen normal version to get the same price.
Interesting. I wonder how he would characterize his belief system.

I personally have a very dim view of him, mostly because of Worldcoin (which is how he came onto my radar). His work with OpenAI confirms my unease with his efforts and makes me wonder what his goals actually are.
Could you elaborate on the part about platform teams?

In my experience, it's worked out terribly when a company treats a platform team as a catch-all for any back-end service regardless the business domain. On the other hand, it's seemed to work reasonably well when the team has a narrow (and very clear definition) of which services they own and why.

That said, I've never worked directly within a platform team as an engineer, so maybe it just appears that way as an outsider.
I remember hating shorewall and similar ones because, well, I know iptables, and I know exactly what I want so using anything that tries to abstract it into it's own approach is torture as I need to take the rules I want and translate it to whatever mediocre paradigm shorewall (or ufw, or near-any other firewall manager in the wild) decided to put on top of iptables.

I ended up using ferm http://ferm.foo-projects.org/ which is basically a convenience layer over iptables, the keywords are named the same and the rules map nearly 1:1 and the changes of mapping are essentially macro and variable expansion. So it's basically iptables but a lot of tedium removed.

Our biggest one is around 1.5k rules and very manageable, using ferm with rule files generated via Puppet. Every entry gets a comment allowing us to track where it came from too.

> If your daily tasks include something less borked, than consider yourself very lucky you live without systemd. If I recall, ufw was intended for simple workstation rule sets.

Systemd has little to do with any of that
It also has that open source look and UX that mainstream users simply don't care for.
There used to be youtube.com/tv but they killed it
What corporation is going to be okay with having their private data stored in someone else’s cloud outside of their control?
The password reset page has some JS errors:

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Thank you!
Or more precisely, the mental health of the people who disagree with them.

Knowing that the person who came up with Stockholm Syndrome was the very same person who the hostages sided with the bank robbers against makes it look a lot like drapetomania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania).
Saw an episode of the show "Finding Your Roots", exploring the ancestry of the guests.

One of the guests was of Italian descent and one of his ancestors moved from Sicily to Louisiana in the late 19th Century. Many of those Italians worked as laborers on the sugar plantations.

So, as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the host, said, Sicily was so poor that working on a Louisiana sugar plantation was better.
Oh goodie, another way for shit to break and force maintainers to write systemd only service scripts.
Pita to use and slow af
Nah, wikipedia is highly manipulated. Maybe a git repo would work better.
Could you elaborate on which actions, investments, and marketing strategies led you to that belief?
Done! Appreciate the quick thoughts
The paper: https://llm-attacks.org/