skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, but that was true 20+ years ago too and they came to your door.

Not really. Minimum wage adjusted for inflation - and especially rent - is down in most places.

You can't pay people $2 for something and that $2 goes less and less far and expect your quality of service to not get worse.
It demonstrates the level of control the firmware can have over LEDs. Cheap boards might have a single color setting or only be able to set blocks of keys (i.e. alpha vs modifier keys). No one says you have to use unicorn vomit colors or a constantly shifting color pattern. But it does look good in a demo and does a great job of indicating that it's not a solid color.

Some people don't like the lighting at all, and that's ok. It's a preference and you control it. If you don't like changing colors or lighting whatsoever, then turn it off.

I switch backlight colors based on layout. It helps me remember where less frequently used shortcuts are, and is rather useful to me and I'm sure many others use it in a similar manner. And plenty of people just set a color that matches the color scheme of their desk, office, or computer.
Controversy brings clicks. Attacking methodologies is easy click bait.
To be honest I have used ChatGPT since day one it was out and in my experience it only improved, in particular the previous models were more restricted and they will complain more about what you asked, a possible comparison is Lama 2 70B compared to ChatGPT today.

Edit: I'm mostly talking about ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5
Totally agreed, as I said, pitfalls. I don't think constantly generating slop with the real message embedded inside to send back and forth is the best way to do things, but it's the local maximum I think we are headed towards because of the incentives and social dynamics involved.
This shall serve as a great example for why no reasonable company would ever use a permissive license for their main product again.
Thanks for the feedback!

I do think that AI is going to have a massive impact on development including cloud infrastructure; however, we rarely see junior developers setting up cloud infrastructure because it is dangerous.

Our motivation is to make the cloud easier for all skill levels. In many organizations, this usually requires platform engineers or lead engineers that determine what works best with their technical strategy.

Our goal is to (yes, remove the arcaneness), but also remove the tedium and distraction from development.
I would like to bridge year my kiddo in a trade like electrician or plumbing, then have him go to college (I'm assuming he's smart enough to make it worthwhile). But that's over a decade away, who effing knows what things will look like.
"Intrinsically linked" doesn't exist. Encryption is math, math you can do on a piece of paper (in theory). Anything you set up to log the fact that people did that math is always going to be meaningless if people take the numbers and do the math away from your logging system.

Now, you can say "but you can't ever access the numbers, just order the computer to do the operation". And also "To order the operation, you need 2FA and a signature for a judge and the president". And, of course, "The numbers needed for decrypting are split between three different servers all with their own security system and they can't be forced to talk to each other without the president's signature being added to a public log". And that's all well and good, but consider this:
I install a listener on the RAM of each of the three servers. I wait until it does a totally legit, totally approved thing that gets logged. I now have the numbers copied somewhere. I do the decrypting for everything else away from the servers.

Sounds like a difficult operation? You're talking about three numbers worth a trillion dollars if they ever get out. Spy missions have been done that were harder to pull off for less benefit.

You just thought of [technical solution] to prevent listening through the RAM? Great, you just solved one _very obvious_ part of the attack surface. Now to address the ten thousand other parts identified by your threat model, and I really hope that you did a perfect job while designing that threat model because one blind spot = all of the keys are out forever. Also, no pressure, but your team of 10 or 100 or even 1000 people working on that threat model are immediately going to be pit against teams of the same size from every government ever, so I hope your team has the best and most amazing engineers we'll ever see in the world.
And that's not considering the human aspect of all of that, because, well, one mole during the deployment, one developer paid enough by an adversary to do an "accidental" typo that leaves a security hole, one piece of open-source software getting supply chain attacked during deployment, and your threat model is moot.
I'm not old enough to actually use Amiga in the past. My 1st PC was... IBM PC something running MS DOS.

But definitely want to learn system programming on retro machines (beside GBA, Nintendo, etc. Just installed FS-UAE and FS-UAE launcher on my Mac. It asked you to provide the ROM of various Amiga machines (A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A1200 etc). I assume pick A500?
I would add that disinformation is built around truths on a topic that shifts and/or hides your focus to other potential subject.
I bought the same Ikea coffee table three times in three countries (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-coffee-table-black-brown-0...).
My pal is OBSESSED over making a book of 8 x 10 Polaroids. Has been talking about it for years.

He is planning on getting:

Intrepid 8 x 10 view camera
8 x 10 film holders
Changing bags
Polaroid film next time it's in production
Two lenses of unknown focal length
Light meters
Polaroid Film Processor

Going to be a massive bill
> A box that's full of a food item that's 95% sugar simply shouldn't be able to list itself as zero sugar.

Obviously; we already agreed on that from the start. All that remains is the (IMHO very minor) disagreement whether the information should be listed "per capsule", "per n capsules", or "per n weight unit(s)", or "per box". It seems to me that "per capsule" is by far the easiest for consumers as that's the easiest, but it's really a minor detail.
I remember my friend ripping this to a CD-ROM for me in high school (early 2000s). It included the tooling application for editing stuff like the parameters for environment generation. I had no idea what I was doing and it didn't run well on my family PC, but I consider it a pretty big milestone on the journey that led to me sitting here reading HN instead of figuring out why my unit tests are failing.
Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it
You just decide how much money you want to earn and provide capacity for that. Demand is infinite so you will sell whatever you produce.
This is what I have done. 35mm bw and color developed in a dark bag. Then scan the negatives. So much cheaper than actually having it developed professionally. You also get to mess with the development conditions for various effects.
For many products, I'd agree. For things that can affect public safety or shared, publicly owned or essential resources like network connections, use of radio spectrum, etc. we've long accepted that regulations are necessary so that the services can be available to everyone and provided safely.
Unsurprisingly, as someone once said, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Would you mind going into a bit more detail about your late 1800s-early 1900s cameras? I’ve recently gotten into film photography, first with a cheap, slightly broken AE-1 and more recently with a family member’s passed-down Canon F-1. Even though this equipment is more than sufficient, I find myself lusting after 1930s-1940s Barnack Leicas and the wide array of Barnack clones from that era. I’m curious what it’s like to actually shoot with those cameras.
I wonder if we could have adoption process, where two random person can adopt the same person without being in a relationship? Heck maybe the adoption services can act as pairing services between two potential singles who are willing to act as a parent.
It looks all right, but the tiny thumb clusters kills it for me. I think Keyboardio really nailed the layout, to the point that pretty much all other similar keyboard designs are DOA for me.
Unfortunately `rclone mount` doesn't support symlinks yet: it always deferences their contents. In contrast, SSHFS has options to either dereference them, or to use them as-is, or to transform absolute links into relative links (which may be more likely to resolve on the client)
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Openwrt is not the best example. Community sucks, some routers are full of bugs and the security is not great either.

In general even if I like open devices and having the option to use my own software, this is not a solution for most of the consumers.

It is not a solution even for the enthusiast that know how to flash their own firmware. Because even if they may do it a few times initially, eventually they stop doing it.

You need a system that can update automatically even when you are busy in another project.
From 2010 opinion polls:

> Ninety-six percent of parents who identified as Democrats said they expected their kids to attend college — only to be outdone by Republican parents, 99 percent of whom said they expected their kids to go to college.

This is why, when we talk about student loan debt forgiveness, the condescending people who yell "You made a choice! You signed a contract!" are completely missing the reality. Every adult is pressuring these kids to go to college. Their own parents, their school teachers, potential employers, etc. The kids have been lectured practically from birth that they need to prepare to go to college. It's massive social conditioning, almost a religion.
creating a new project by just SSH'ing in seems interesting but.. like.. what's the security model for such a thing? Do other platforms do this? ...asking for a friend :)
Besides the branding not being that obvious, it should be quite difficult to sell a stolen Leica. At least for anything more than a pittance. It doesn't matter what it costs, what matters for a thief is what they can sell it for.
Hacking up a journalist who says some things a king doesn't like and charging someone with supposedly assisting in hacking classified networks and computer systems in a court of law to maybe eventually serve some prison time are two radically different things.

Hell, the person who actually did the hacking and extracting the classified documents only served 7 years of prison time. Are you seriously comparing butchering someone to serving 7 years of prison time after an investigation and public trial?

I don't understand how you seem to have a really tough time with that.
From the name OpenTF (Open Terraform) I assumed it's specific to Terraform
> If one day everyone sends an AI to attend a meeting...

I think this is the absurd part. I can see an obvious use for some meetings, for example: where lots of people are invited 'just in case'. You could get the AI generated summary and see if anything relevant came up, then follow up if it did.
> And these cases are the utter majority.

I think it's the opposite -- tech and politicians agree on the vast majority of things, but they're considered banal so the topic never comes up. But, you could imagine an alternate universe where tech did things differently, and then politicians wanted to regulate them. Here are some examples:

* Tech companies offer most of their services for free. You could imagine a world where Google charged for searches and Facebook charged for posting, and so "poor people being excluded from the Internet" became a political issue.

* Tech companies translate their services into a variety of languages. You could imagine a world where Google and Facebook were only available in English, and so "non-English-speakers being excluded from the Internet" became a political issue.

* Tech companies don't allow anyone to view DMs, private posts, etc. except law enforcement. You could imagine a world where Google and Facebook had a culture where it was normal for employees to snoop on other peoples' DMs, and it became a political issue.

* Conversely, you could imagine a world where tech companies refused to allow law enforcement access to peoples' DMs even with a valid warrant, and it became a political issue. (This is starting to happen.)

* Tech companies allow anyone to post by default. You could imagine a world where tech companies only allowed people to post if tech companies liked their political views (similar to how newspapers' biases affect which editorials they publish) and it became a political issue. (This is starting to happen: the left is pressuring tech companies to restrict certain right-wing content, and the right is talking about regulation to force tech not to do that.)

* Tech companies sometimes kick people off the platform for arbitrary procedural reasons, but not for personal pettiness reasons (with the notable exception of Elon Musk kicking people off Twitter). You could imagine a world where it was normal for e.g. Google to delete a journalist's GMail account if the journalist published something Google didn't like, and it becoming a political issue.

* Tech companies often contribute to open-source standards and software. For example, Google is heavily involved in defining web standards; and they made Chromium open-source, allowing rivals like Microsoft to build on it. You could imagine a world where the tech ecosystem was much more fragmented and closed-source than it is today, and it becoming a political issue.

This is what I was saying about a selection effect: You can easily think of ways that politicians want to regulate tech more, because those topics are controversial and make the news. But there are actually a ton of ways that tech _could_ be much worse than it is, but those topics never come up, so it takes some imagination to think of them.
Authorization to work in the U.S. is required, but not citizenship. We can only offer remote to people located in the U.S.
You can go get a new-in-box Pinebook Pro for $199: https://pine64.com/product/14%e2%80%b3-pinebook-pro-linux-la...

And look! Their Mali GPU even ships with compliant OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Now that's rapid progress.
Huge time sink for B&W, but sure nice to do, a major pain for color and close to impossible for slide film.

The latter was what I basically learned on, back the day, being allowed to sport my dad's back-up F4. Had to tie a knot in the sling for it to not bounce on the ground when I had it around my neck, me being too small.

Digital is so much easier, until you want to print. Upside of learbing on film, you are much more carefull at which pictures you take.

Maybe, one day, I'll get some B&W film and pull out said F4 again. Big maybe so, as I simply don't have the time to develop film on top of everything else...
You can also run inferno on a raspberry pi pico. I did the port here https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno-os/tree/pico
> Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalogue is famous in the history of science as the earliest known attempt to record accurate coordinates of many celestial objects observable with the naked eye.

I thought the Egyptians had star maps well before Hipparchus, and they must have done it with naked eye observations too.
Yeah, I think there's definitely a lot of survivorship bias involved. COBOL was IBM's biggest suggestion at the height of IBM selling every business that they needed a mainframe to run their core business. For a brief era "every company ran on COBOL [on IBM mainframes]" and those programs were core to a lot of those companies' success stories. As computers moved on, the programs that survived in COBOL were already critical to business success. Every decade fewer COBOL programs survive, leaving only the "critical" ones left. Tautologically that survivorship sometime implies that COBOL itself was a key ingredient that made them critical programs, but mostly they are just critical programs because they survived that test of time.
1. The moment I wake up

2. Before I put on my makeup

3. I say a little prayer for you

4. And while combing my hair, now

5. And wondering what dress to wear now
I break out my TLR when someone has an interesting project that's well suited for it and I can bill them for it. My standing rate is 100/hr, one location, for film it's 200/hr. It's sort of a once a year thing nowadays, but, enjoyable. Takes me back to being a starving college kid doing this professionally, running around outside like a wild man capturing images for rent money.
It's a good balance now really, because doing dev management is far more lucrative, and I can afford to take the gigs that I want to take instead of taking every gig offered.

It is true though, bringing the film shoot intentionality to the digital world is the correct mindset, and sure modern digital can rip through 14 frames a second, but, if your moment happened at frame 8.5, you still can miss it, and are rewarded with 10-20x the amout of hard disk space to comb through hoping for a keeper.
I'm working on an IoT device for industrial use, and we're wrestling with this very problem.

The answer we're probably going to go with is that the device is 'leased' to the customer. It's part of their subscription.

This solves a ton of problems about FLOSS and support of the same. It's now a closed device, and you have no rights to the code inside. If we go out of business, you have a brick that you don't have to pay for anymore.
This economy seems to consist largely of cheaply made products with high profit margins. You're attacking profit margins, so good luck with that. Sorry for the pessimism but this country just derailed the FTC attempt to abolish non-competes because it would cost law firms business.
>I suspect the answer is likely to be something worryingly banal, like "we're in debt" (or, "private interest knows a guy who wants to make some money")

wikipedia has the answers. tl;dr it sounds like both of those things: the reserve was in debt and was depressing the market for helium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
There are a couple of NIST papers on specifics for labels:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/CSWP/NIST.CSWP.02042022-2....
https://www.nist.gov/itl/executive-order-14028-improving-nat...

They're in FN 20 of the linked proposal for rulemaking (which is 48 dense pages and which I don't expect anyone here to have had a chance to read yet.)

If you find yourself skeptical about the NIST proposals, please feel free to comment on the record!
Um, doesn't the lack of room temperature superconductors mean we need more helium, not less?
Hey!

> The first is, please provide a standalone registry package for both modules and providers - the only I'm aware of is Artifactory, and I don't really feel like running another big repository software in a Nexus shop.

Could you expand on this? Do you mean you'd like a self-contained binary to run a private provider/modules registry? If that's the case, then there are some open source projects for that, and we've done a proof of concept of an approach in which you can distribute providers via OCI registries like DockerHub or the GitHub Container Registry[0] as those are actually perfect for the use-case.

This PoC will be followed by a public RFC soon.

> The second is related: please allow for easier forking of provider modules. The current workflow of either building locally and distributing binaries with collaborators that are manually copied sucks or waiting for upstream to accept PRs, particularly if upstream wants CLAs signed.

Do you possibly have an ideal workflow in mind?

[0]: https://twitter.com/opentforg/status/1696913055576387599

Disclaimer: Work at Spacelift, and currently temporary Technical Lead of the OpenTF Project, until it's committee-steered.
Or consumer-grade old style spinning hard drives.
I agree with your statement.

I think where TDD may not work well is with legacy systems where people try to bolt on tests after the fact.

I get the impression from the article that this might be the case.
> What you have deliberately neglected to mention is that there is a desk at the first floor of the building where the food can be left for you to come downstairs and get after your meeting

If your apartment block has a front desk then that's fantastic but mine doesn't - if it is left outside it will probably be stolen.

> you are just piggybacking on their tears to make yourself feel better

Seems a little ad hominem, but taking it positively, a delivery worker should assume the worst and deliver to the door just in case there's a reason they've ordered a delivery and can't come downstairs unless something else has been agreed. They might be self isolating for covid for example. There's so many examples of why it should be delivered to the door, and there's no way to know if it is or isn't valid for that delivery, so that's what should happen.

> I love how when the consumer class talks about the service class ... but its a scenario that is certainly not the tear jerker you were expecting

That's why I added the other examples. Chill out a little.
The DACH world is specific in many things... but I've seen cardTAN outside it. In Slovakia, Tatra banka does use this system. I guess being part of Raiffeisen explains it.
I spent $1,100 on an IKEA couch and it has moved 3 places with me over the last ~9 years.
You can definitely find nice stuff made out of maple on Facebook marketplace if you're patient.
> It is very parochial to believe that everyone will want the same things as you.

I appreciate the point you make, and I certainly don’t believe that everyone wants the same things I do.

But I also think that it’s false dichotomy to say you can either have walkability or you can have cars and car parks. That’s simply not true.

The Netherlands has plenty of fantastic examples of cities, towns, villages, business parks and industrial areas that are all friendly to pedestrians and bikes, and not just endless slabs of asphalt. Plentiful public transport, that makes it easy to get anywhere without a car. I personally don’t accept the idea that cars are essential for people to have options in their living environments, to say they are just strikes me as an immense lack of imagination.

> For these people, driving to a grocery store and parking in parking lots are just things they put up with in order to get what they really want.

Your point here would carry more weight, if it was legal in the U.S. to build anything except huge empty suburbs, with soulless car park shops miles away. US planning law simply doesn’t allow any other form of building, so people can’t choose anything else. There are obviously small fragments of the U.S. that buck this trend, built before modern planning laws, but there’s so much demand for them, only the wealthiest can afford to live there.
Awaiting the substack post that:

- Can't reproduce the issue that this paywalled article links to

- Finds that the methodology used to assess "accuracy" isn't actually checking accuracy, but is checking for a specific output, and that output generally does still produce the right value, just in a different format

- Summarizes by saying that ChatGPT is neither the second coming of christ nor horribly inaccurate, just something in between
I favor something like this, if less strong. It should be required that a product that reaches end-of-life as defined by the manufacturer should have all documentation and source code released and open sourced; prior to end-of-life (and perhaps for one year after), they're required to provide security updates. The manufacturer is then free to decide the point at which closed source is no longer worth the maintenance cost.

A few additional thoughts:

- Perhaps hardware design/specs should be released as well?

- A government body should probably host this information after EOL.
I think the opening sections were necessary to define terms and clarify why an extremely well established system (hourly billing) might not be a good thing. It’s a nuanced argument and requires some verbiage. Maybe it could have been cut down a bit but I think it was important to include.