skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had lunch, not too long ago, with a senior executive of a silicon valley tech company that was moaning about how much of a pain it was to get people to come into the office and how it felt like things would never return to the way they were. And I told them I actually knew of a way to get 100% of their employees to return to the office happily. When they asked what this magic bullet was I said, "Go back to offices, with doors."

It isn't that complicated. Even if you have to work out of your bedroom when you are home you can close your door and focus, that just isn't the same in open plan office space.
Please take a listen to the interview (bottom of the post) and judge for yourself.
The reason just that this is a simple process for which a steam turbine can achieves 90% of the thermodynamic optimum. To my knowledge, the only reason people consider alternatives is to reduce capital costs. You're still capped by thermodynamics though.
IMHO something is still missing. Bonin's father was a pilot (in Air France AFAIK) and I can't help but think the likelihood he was the best candidate was low, but that legacy played a part.

I also wonder if he had much passion for flying or was just following his father footsteps. I wish they would value passion more, easily demonstrated with military/glider (I must miss some..) experience.
that would require folks moving back to the bay area. No way in hell I'd want to do that. That would require sacrificing my wife's career and our quality of life significantly.
Because there is no such thing as selling a product in bad faith under capitalism. Except the acts explicitly named as illegal by existing laws. Those are obviously bad faith acts, which is why we made them illegal at the beginning of time. But if an act isn't illegal, and if you believe you'll profit from it, then it is by definition a good-faith act.
It's because we're in local maximum - steam turbines are just so developed
These very same employers will never take a pay cut for said “passion” that they have for their product (which they probably don’t even use much either).

They want to only pay others per keyboard keystroke but can’t accept that often the most efficient/productive workers don’t need to be busy. They spend a lot of their time thinking so that they can generate more impact with fewer keystrokes.

Treat people like adults and, surprisingly, get adult results. Set strategic goals, not daily quotas for minutia work.
Note the part where I said

> (Of course, more than zero is worth looking into, I'm just curious if the alarmism is warranted.)
You could always add the liquid metal blanket if you want to eke out the extra 10% (or if you want to generate tritium). But it's not worth the complication in an early prototype.
I always think of this quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri when these issues come up:

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

--Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
> 90% of jobs aren't people's "passions"

I'd also like to add that even if you are in a field and doing work you are "passionate" about you'll spend between 25-75% of your time doing boring administrative bull hockey that no one is passionate about. Whether it's feeling out a time sheet, or watching HR videos on harassing coworkers.
Consider the old joke...

Q: What do you call a person with 18 years of education and a freshly minted certificate declaring them a distinguished Master in their field?

A: That new guy.
Who was Eileen Blair? A new book shines light on George Orwell's wife
This is it. A prayer can also be thought of as an affirmation or just positive self talk.
It absolutely does not, since a sim is just an object which can be acquired any number of ways than the intended one. They can also be faked and not even possessed at all, since all the server sees is some data. The server (the phone companies hardware) is not a notary public watching you sign something after verifying that your ID matches your person.

This is exactly the grossly naive assumption they are talking about people treating as though it had any substance at all when it has practically none.
I do care, but it's not really related to digital surveillance, it's related to how government works.

All government entities can go rogue, there's nothing new about this.

The snowden story was good as it made people be aware about cyber surveillance, but there's not much else.
I have stayed in SF for almost a decade and have no plans to leave.

Many of my younger friends have moved to NYC (or elsewhere) and they have told me they don't like the overwhelming tech culture that permeate the bay drowning out the rest of the culture. I could see that happening to Seattle as well, but probably not NYC.

I can kind of understand it being like competing colonies of bacteria (each sub-culture). I think its pretty valid, but I don't mind all tech all the time ;D.
Not necessarily saying this is invalid, but this is a submarine article: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
To be fair, the PCI Express bus on the current Pi was kind of an afterthought, only meant to work with a very limited set of devices, so I'm pretty sure nobody at Broadcom, and few in the design stages at Raspberry Pi, had ever tested more complex devices with it.

It works fine in _most_ cases for simple devices (USB controllers, SATA, NVMe, WiFi, and the like), but really falls apart for more advanced devices (hardware RAID, GPU, TPU, etc.).

And all Arm processors have to deal with cache coherence issues (which aren't a problem on X86), meaning some drivers (notably, AMD still) need to program for the different architecture (some patches exist but they're not perfect yet, and not in mainline Linux).
GeForce Experience has telemetry, but I can't tell you if the driver packages from Nvidia has any. There's a Disable-Nvidia-Telemetry tool, but I can't say I know anything about it (I use AMD).

https://github.com/NateShoffner/Disable-Nvidia-Telemetry/rel...
He didn't flee to Russia. He got stuck in Russia due to US revoking his passport.
My Ultimate Commodore GEOS Battle Station, Part II: A Love Letter to CMD
> This is not at all settled.

Yes, it is.

> For the people who believe it wholly, the effects that are claimed are marginal

No, the effects are not marginal. Research, the experience of basically all clinicians who prescribe antidepressants, and my personal experience all show they treat depression.

For a given person, an SSRI may significantly relieve their symptoms, have a mild effect, or have no effect. Across the population, studies of SSRIs consistently show they work to treat major depression [1].

Every clinician I've met has observed SSRIs being effective. They see depression symptoms getting better when medication starts, and they observe relapses when medication stops.

When I started taking Escitalopram, I stopped being depressed. When I stopped taking Escitalopram, I became depressed again. When I re-started Escitalopram, I stopped being depressed again.

My grandfather had the same experience. When he went on Citalopram, he became calmer and less irritable than he'd ever been in his life. He stopped taking Citalopram for a few weeks, because of a physical illness that interrupted a prescription refill, and immediately slipped back into a depression. When he went back on Citalopram in the hospital, he was smiling and singing again two weeks later.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/all-medications-are-in...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/all-medications-are-in...
I appreciate the thoughts. In such a fast moving field, it's difficult for the layman to navigate without a heavy math background. There's some more academic research I should have pointed to like https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11560
TBH I had to read that part two times before realizing that it was describing an an unrolled loop.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the web ad market, and thus this is kind of irrelevant - they aren't forcing this down everyone's throat.

Though I cannot help but wonder why exactly they did that. Some kind of a corporate requirement?
You’re not wrong, but it’s not that obvious to people. Most people look at this from a perspective of “ohh I’m okay with RTO so I don’t care” or “ohh I like RTO and people should stop complaining and being so entitled”. What they fail to realize is that soon it will be your paid parental leave cut down to two weeks or medical plans moved to cheaper options with less coverage, what are you going to do then?
The network simply has to have a pretty good idea of where the given MS is and how fast it is moving in which direction. The network maintains some kind of CDMA/OFDM/whatever radio link to said MS and thus either has to know that or learns the same data from behavior of the link. What this does is formalisation of how these data can be queried and used and by whom.
> Force them to address your argument before allowing the conversation to progress.

That's generally boorish and can make for short uninformative conversations. If someone evades your argument multiple times, like it or not that's an answer.
Are real life superconductors ideal, i.e. they truly would store a charge forever (at least until the material disintegrated)? Or is there some sort of loss, albeit much less than typical resistance?
That is indeed a neat trick!
How times have changed. I imagine pristine specimens of the rare field cock would fetch a good sum these days.
[My bad, I wasn't very clear in my comment.]

I do use `fd` in simple cases as it is sooooo fast, but it has quite limited functionality compared to zsh's extended glob syntax¹. I must add that `fd` is one-billion times more readable when you're flipping back through your history or extracting a short script with `fc`.

¹ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Filena...
I don't think sway plans to support xmodmap, but it does support custom XKB layouts.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4250
The indignity of getting excluded from free cake is not an economic calculus.

Lots of people could go to the grocery store and buy themselves a sheet cake. They don't.
He shouldn't have fled anywhere. Why did the US revoke his passport?
Interestingly the IETF collaborates with the Chinese surveillance sector (China Mobile, ZTE, Huawei etc.) but comes out against the US surveillance sector.
It will cost too much
So the introduction says it’s “end-to-end encrypted” but all it does is a link to Wikipedia (which is useless). Is there any documentation on the security model?

Vault has some at-rest encryption but IIRC explicitly says then don’t have any mitigations against a compromised unsealed node. My understanding is that if someone ever gets a root access to a machine running Vault, the game is over. Which makes me wonder ifI can deploy Infiscial to some completely untrusted machine (without any orchestration or networking concerns) and still have some guarantees that all my secrets are safe in some way (cannot be decrypted, cannot be replaced, maybe even cannot be rolled back, etc)?
You can scroll through that contributor list and see that each graph clearly shows most new contributors were post-2019...
> blocking GPTBot will not guarantee that a site's data does not end up training all AI models of the future. Aside from issues of scrapers ignoring robots.txt files, there are other large data sets of scraped websites (such as The Pile) that are not affiliated with OpenAI.

This is why I'm not reassured. robots.txt isn't sufficient to stop all webcrawlers, so there every reason to think it isn't sufficient to stop AI scrapers.

I'm still wanting to find a good solution to this problem so that I can open my sites up to the public again.
My guess vis-a-vis the morality is that he naturally ignores it. Try being hardcore logical (not just rational, but like A + B = B + A stepwise logical) and hardcore moral at the same time, you'll be torn forever. And if you don't naturally learn a sort of turn-taking approach for those modes via your upbringing, good luck learning it later.

Unfortunately, ignoring moral perspectives & decision points is effectively the same as "being without morals". And I really mean unfortunately--this is a problem for all of humanity and we keep looking for individual evil scapegoats, but eventually we need to reconcile this.

In practice there's also this extra innovator's dilemma: Yield to known industry practice and reap ethical rewards as a natural part of the process, or lean into the novelty & growth curve and possibly reinvent huge swaths of custom, ethic, and morality which were previously vague.

I don't think people appreciate how close we've come to that happening at various points in history, and to what degree.

If you do take that second path, almost by definition you immediately blind yourself to huge swaths of moral decisionmaking. This is more especially true if you are forced to look at your customers as "audiences" or similar groups.

These groups are effectively perceived at higher levels as cohesive organisms. Groups are known to demonstrate a more primitive subjective morality than most any individual (i.e. individiuals may be smart, humans in large groups not so much), and this can greatly restrict a founder's own willingness to address morality-related issues by more than a couple inches, so to speak, here or there.

I think most any business owner probably understands this view, though in the context of this huge story I'm sure it wouldn't be easy to admit.

But you are right that in terms of individual human perception, the puzzle _must_ be solved, and often in a very subjective manner no matter what resources may be available. That's a huge issue.
My understanding is that WHATWG doesn't govern standards at all - it basically documents what browsers are doing at the moment. So when Google rolls WEI in a Chrome update, it will become a WHATWG "standard" automatically. Is that correct?
> Every natural number has a 'next'

Again... an axiomatic statement that is not well defined. What does it mean for something to have a 'next'. Shouldn't it be the case that if something has a next, then it can be named, identified, and perhaps even written down in some manner? Yet, by the same axioms, there certainly exist natural numbers that we cannot write down simply because there are not enough atoms in the universe that could be used to write them down on or with.

So basically, we have a conundrum, we say something exists after some other, yet for sure such a thing cannot be identified in any meaningful way, and its existence is just some conjecture that can never be proven. In what way is such a number distinguishable from any of the other infinite numbers that are supposedly greater than it? Since none can be written and all we can really say is that it's greater than whatever other number we have, one again questions whether or not the statement 'every natural number has a next' is truly well defined.
> The entire state of NY DOJ has been focused on Trump since 2016

No, it hasn’t. They've done plenty else. Probably spent more time on the NRA than Trump.
I personally know, in real life, somewhere between 2 and 5 people who were raped by Jacob Appelbaum.
This is true in the sense that Google is running an experiment (an "origin trial") and they didn't need anyone's permission to do that. (None of the other browser vendors need to get permission to run an experiment either.)

That's different from making it a web standard. They will want cooperation from other browser vendors (not random people on the Internet) for that.

I doubt they'll make a serious effort at convincing anyone of anything until they decide what they want to do, which will be based on the results of the experiment.
Yes it seems obvious to me that "download" here means "store outside the browser in a format that can be viewed in any player and copied indefinitely". of course my browser is downloading a video I watch but not in a form that is useful to me outside of viewing it on that site in that browser.
I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. Then when it isn't required anymore, they want everyone back in the office for...productivity. My guess is that most employers really have no way to measure if an employee is being productive or not so managers are just reporting what makes them look good...and now we are back to where managers will look better with lots of people running around the office.
Not with a "White Hat" on, I think.

If a user who is not you uses a browser using WEI (implicitly approving of this attestation tech) and connects to a website that uses WEI, that's entirely up to third-parties and there's nothing legal that you can do.

The most you can do is protest this with:

1. Using a browser without WEI or with WEI disabled.

2. Modifying your own site to talk the WEI protocol but for any browser that can talk that protocol, you ban the user from using your site (or redirect them to a site explaining how WEI is DRM of the entire internet, etc)

Moving beyond White Hat to Grey Hat and Black Hat, you get things like:

1. Modifying your own hosting company to apply this WEI-blacklisting mechanism to your clients' websites.

2. Convincing (or "convincing") owners of core backend libraries in popular programming languages to introspect connections and blacklist WEI-compatible browsers.

3. Take advantage of XSS vulnerabilities to interfere with WEI operations on other tabs within the same browser on the user's machine if they happen to be using your website.

4. Take advantage of vulnerabilities in the WEI protocol to corrupt the underlying attestation system so it fails to function in all future WEI requests for that physical machine.

5. Hack/Crack attestation system security and publicly release the keys, making any hardware using that version suspicious/blacklisted by users of WEI.

6. Probably some other things I haven't thought of, but as you can see they quickly go from dubiously legal to straight-up illegal. It would be best to nip WEI in the bud before such measures are deemed necessary.
> To be fair, the PCI Express bus on the current Pi was kind of an afterthought, only meant to work with a very limited set of devices, so I'm pretty sure nobody at Broadcom, and few in the design stages at Raspberry Pi, had ever tested more complex devices with it.

The first Raspberry Pi was sold over a decade ago and I 'member people actually using them as embedded boards for whatever stuff they were working with eight years ago (especially once the GPU performance became powerful enough to run digital signage). Sorry but that a company like Broadcom can't be arsed to develop a standards-compliant PCIe interface is a joke, and with this kind of attitude the ARM world complains that no one buys their chips?!

(Edit: Oh, just noticed whom I replied to - the person who wrote the article I referred to. HN is a small world indeed, and I guess we share at least some of our frustrations)

> meaning some drivers (notably, AMD still) need to program for the different architecture (some patches exist but they're not perfect yet, and not in mainline Linux).

Drivers... oh don't get me started on that front. Everyone in the x86 space seems to have learned over the last two decades that it is a good idea to submit drivers to the Linux kernel early. Intel and AMD both do that for CPUs and also for a lot of their other stuff. In contrast, the entire embedded world still locks away drivers behind years-old kernel forks, ridiculous NDAs, absurdly expensive dev boards, completely whack u-boot forks and even more whack BSPs.
Surely it's the other way: an organization that approved DRM pumping the brakes implies that the thing in question is remarkably bad
AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
I wish I could buy a A710 in a SBC. I'd love to cluster up as many ARM cores as I can.
Cool thanks. This is impressive tech. Will give it a try for some personal projects.
> it makes it easy for bad programmers to write bad performing queries

That is true of every ORM in existence. The easiest thing to do is naively follow the object graph in code, because that's what the ORM gives you. If the ORM was to somehow add friction here to encourage some other approach it would be panned as "too hard!!1" and fade away into obscurity.
Not only that but those that stay are the “yes” men/women who are either bootlickers or accept that they aren’t valued much and thus will put in minimal genuine effort and just comply with stupid directives to the letter.

In the end you just don’t get that diversity of thought through disagreement/evolution/personal ownership that you otherwise get when people feel comfortable enough to genuinely show up and be mission-driven.
Virtual archaeology: Recreating the first PC I ever used (2022)
I like that for the present moment there are a diversity of approaches and people can somewhat self-select into a work culture that fits their preferences and needs. If you make abrupt changes I don’t like, rest assured I will be using my new time commuting on the train to prospect new job opportunities. But good for those who want and prefer an in-office culture. Voluntary association is a wonderful thing.

I mainly reserve scorn for companies issuing abrupt ultimatums to employees they hired remotely that they must relocate long distances or be fired. Nobody established in an area with a partner that also works, potentially has family nearby or kids in school is going to accept that. That move signals a toxic brew of tyranny and cowardice from execs who don’t want to take responsibility for doing a real layoff. Grindr, looking at you this week.
Return to office is a massive sink cost fallacy and effort for executives to save face after strangling their companies profitability by signing long unnecessary leases. Rather than shrugging at what COVID wrought and going “meh, act of god, this unused office space is a write-off” fart huffing executives want to bend reality to their will by declaring work from home a huge problem and return to office the only way to save their companies.

In doing so, they replace an understandable situation in which the were blindsided by an extremely low probability act of god, with an intentional hoisting upon their own petards. It’s incredible to me how many people have OPENLY cited how much they’re paying for office space as a reason for their return to office policies.

The US government accountability office framed unused office space as an environmental and financial problem. Not the office space itself but the fact it was unused is clearly the problem. So of course the solution is to have your workers burn a whack of oil during an oil shortage, burning through their own money, to “save” the environment and government finances by making them commute to these offices so they can’t be say converted to residential housing or something useful. The true costs of such idiocy are hidden by shoving a large portion of the costs onto the workforce who are expected to ask for no additional compensation for the extra unpaid work and uncompensated expenses they’re taking on.

This doesn’t actually work because workers actually vote with their feet. Or they simply don’t comply with policy knowing that nobody is either paying attention or has the guts/inclination to actually fire them. How much do you really expect people to do this performative labour for executives that COSTS them money when non-compliance or finding a different job can make such a difference in their financial well being and quality of life?