skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it brings a lot of questions to the table about what employee knew what, and when.. A real question is - under a "zero trust" environment, how many motivated insiders have they accumulated with their IT employment and contracting.
per seat (5 seat bundle) (annual pricing)
It's a fixed amount. And hilariously outdated - it's based on property valuation in 1991. I pay more council tax on my modest home than some mega mansions in the area. The other silly thing about it is the tenant pays, not the owner.
This is definitely fair! Some people just compete all the harder because the stakes are so low.

I tend to think of the hyper-competitiveness in athletics as a phase that people eventually grow out of, but that can happen later in life for some than others :)
Well it’s either the NHS, the tories, or the country. Labour dont have a plan either. Taxing everyone to death is patchwork. The UK is in deep, deep, trouble and it ain’t the politics causing it. It’s the culture of making one bad choice after the other.
I assume it is the browser, yes. I would like to see how PenPot compares.

https://penpot.app/
I've heard that too, but I can't imagine anybody in a city administration having enough juice to make a CEO care at all. How would that conversation go?
FWIW, getting to that fuse is a massive, massive pain in the ass on some of their newer cars like the 2023 corolla. It's basically not possible. The alternative requires taking off the dash and manually pulling out some wires.

In the process you may lose some functionality like some speakers, the radio, wireless android auto, microphone, etc.
Interesting quote

>> In February 2023, he invited—perhaps a better word is summoned—Sam Altman to meet with him at Twitter and asked him to bring the founding documents for OpenAI. Musk challenged him to justify how he could legally transform a nonprofit funded by donations into a for-profit that could make millions. Altman tried to show that it was all legitimate, and he insisted that he personally was not a shareholder or cashing in. He also offered Musk shares in the new company, which Musk declined.
I think that was because he was doing his residency in a place where he would not normally choose to live.

As typical, during that time he was probably so overworked he didn't really interact with any of the locals until his time was up and he moved back out to a self-selected community.
I take your point and learned something, thank you.
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From Master Password to Spectre (2021)
Of curse, but it's not terribly easy for the average person to put
sophisticated filters into multiple content pipelines on every child's
device (imagine having 4 or 5 kids of different ages and needs).

So a solution I think we brainstormed on the show was mandating open
interoperable APIs that allow easy insertion of (presumably commercial
or open source) plugins into the system, within the user's end-to-end
digital estate, under the control of the user (parent) and completely
rejecting the MITM and endpoint compromise via back-doors that the
government naively proposed.

In many ways that would take a much bigger stick to Big Tech,

It also transitions the definition of "online harms" to those defined
by the guardian/parent rather than problematically allowing the State
to define harms and control the selectors.

What that says to me is that the government are dishonest about the
real aims of the bill.

And further, as a consequence, it crushes my belief that the
government even truly care out child safety except as a vehicle to
greater tyranny.
Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked and Answered (1936) [pdf]
Honestly if companies started realizing this they might stop requiring them. A lot of people don't even have a phone number.

Though maybe they would move to something more invasive like ID or something... which may or may not be even rarer, but is definitely more personal.
The problem is when it adds up: you pay for FCP, for Adobe, for Office, for Figma, for X... at the end, you are paying 200 dollars per month in software (without counting Netflix, Spotify, hosting, etc).
Highrise also comes to mind.
> the tech regulator would only require companies to scan their networks when a technology is developed that is capable of doing so.

IOW, as soon as backdoors are implemented. And we only have to lose this battle once.
Not quite. Some resources don't automatically run

https://smolsite.zip/UEsDBBQAAgAIAPtxJlepozjzcAAAAIgAAAAKAAA...
Can they use this to stop killing whales when they try to talk to military subs halfway around the world?

(the current method is like a person standing next to a jet plane taking off to underwater life)
Slack AI will be in pilot this winter
Yeah:

'After April 2021, when the key was leaked to the corporate environment in the crash dump, the Storm-0558 actor was able to successfully compromise a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account. This account had access to the debugging environment containing the crash dump which incorrectly contained the key.'

So either the attacker was already in the network and happened to find the dump while doing some kind of scanning that wasn't detected, or they knew to go after this specific person's account.
> Free-market capitalism is inherently power centralizing

I understand the argument you're making, but I don't think these are the words to use to do it, makes it more confusing, and you're glossing over some thorny issues. One could just as easily and more accurately say "power is inherently power centralizing".

I assume you are equating "free-markets" with "laissez-faire" markets which I don't think is accurate, else why would we separate the two concepts? Better to use the term "perfect market capitalism" (essentially markets where no player has the power to affect prices) and then specify market imperfections and failures as the cause of "inherent flaws" and worthy of regulation.

markets don't eat themselves, participants with power eat them.

But we also need to understand the difficulty of regulation. Keeping this brief thru a lot of hand waving and overgeneralization, Microsoft monopolized the personal computer market in the 1990's, and made buckets of money doing it, but they were not able to then leverage that into enduring monopolies in (the internet and) cell phones and cloud services, which together supplanted the personal computer as "what was popular" for personal information and communication. Would an evolving government regulatory regime applied to Microsoft have been able to create a better outcome in the same time frame without stifling industry than did what Schumpeter called the "creative destruction" of progress through free market forces? (yes I could word that more and better, but I want to hit reply and be done, so hopefully my point is not lost.)

When you talk about "free markets" failing, you feed the idea that socialism is a good idea, which is a serious baby/bathwater problem. Better that people learn more about perfect markets.
what is information extraction in your terms? sounds like some spy stuff
>... you have to have a vault for things like crashdumps that is so easy to use that people don't get lazy...

Let's assume a crash dump can be megabytes up to gigabytes big.

How could a vault handle this securely?

the moment it is copied from the vault to the developer's computer, you introduce data remanence (undelete from file system).

keeping such coredump purely in RAM makes it accessible on a compromised developer machine (GNU Debugger), and if the developer machine crashes, its coredump contains/wraps the sensitive coredump.

A vault that doesn't allow direct/full coredump download, but allows queries (think "SQL queries against a vault REST API") could still be queried for e.g. "select * from coredump where string like '%secret_key%'".

So without more insight, a coredump vault sounds like security theater which tremendously makes it more difficult for intended purposes.
This is great until a company starts making file formats completely incompatible with back versions, making it impossible to use with friends or anyone else. Oh or when they just change the plan to subscription only anyways.

I'm looking at you, Sketch.
I've been writing Javascript for 20 years.

Typescript has done nothing for me.

Just a religious battle at this point.

(I'm okay with it on the server, but client side is just something something)
In any meaningful sense?? Yeah, there are some edgy attention-seekers, but no, there are no longer real threatening Nazis.
If we're just talking about prices as a singular aggregate number, then they erase vast amounts of data, whether they converge on cost or not. What it took to produce something isn't 34 currency. It took 2 hours of labor mill worker time, 3 hours of truck driver time, 6kg lumber, 6 minutes of oil refining, 3L diesel fuel, etc etc etc. Those are actual costs...and even those are still aggregate, but as separate buckets at least. The beauty of information like this is you can price things at PoS based on known information...how harmful are fossil fuels when used at-scale in production? Very? Ok, create a democratically-imposed pigouvian tax on them. Try doing that in a state where people have to claw over each other's backs just to make ends meet and the government is in the pocket of the oil industry.

But yeah, if you just want to know what something costs in currency, then yes, I agree that price converges over time to cost in competitive markets. This is exactly what Marx argued, yet everyone screams about him being wrong for some reason. It's one thing he got right.
Compressing a single-color image in various formats (2016)
The political communications are done with WhatsApp. This is illegal of course.

There has been no discussion of the obvious national security risk.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/22/uk-ministers-acc...
> This was NOT my experience while working in the automotive industry.

Exactly. The only people who can climb the corporate ladder are people who care about business "impact" more than anything else.
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No, a well designed safety protocol will integrate with the robot operation. Unless the safety protocol is flawed there should be no incidents with the robots. If the safety protocol is flawed it could happen with humans as well.
You said they were strikingly close to the line, they aren't. The implicit suggestion being one can just write harry potter fiction by referring to harry potter facts, you can't!
How to win back trust in news
Ah I understand it now thanks. Not an uncommon thing in many places!
What is the sentiment of the investment community? Researchers covering Amazon and majority shareholders influence the decisions that Jassy is making. He's not taking a hard line just because he's a tough guy who doesn't care about employees. Focus on the situation.
I fully expect my enemies to do worse than punch me. The purpose of having a coherent philosophy is understanding who I have irreconcilable differences with (such as Nazis) and deciding whether the appropriate course of action is to ignore them or to fight them. In the case of Nazis, they pose a substantial threat to innocents, so the correct answer is to fight them.
I agree that the labor theory of value isn't useful, and pricing signals are more responsive than any command economy has yet been able to achieve.

However, overproduction is also a problem in capitalism, from a lot of perspectives. The profit motive assures that surpluses are produced, sometimes absurdly bountiful surpluses, and then must be consumed. In the short term, many businesses will fail or be amalgamated if their inputs are too abundant and can no longer support a profit margin. Long term, capitalists will arrange the economy such that surpluses will be consumed by the creation of new desires, rentier capitalism on the necessities of life like housing or healthcare or education, or, failing that, wars.

I'm not saying this is the only factor creating an insatiable loop; humans are pretty good at that by themselves. What's different about capitalism is that there just aren't any brakes you can apply, anywhere.

Are there solutions? Well, we could go back to before capitalism, but that wasn't so great either. When Adam Smith wrote his treatises, the prevailing view among elites was that giving the poor more wealth was a bad thing. It was more important that they be obedient and content with their lot. Smith correctly saw that it mas moral to increase the general wealth, and the wealth of the people was (roll title) the wealth of the nation. So Smith's insight was an important corrective.

I wouldn't want to go back to a system where elites arranged things so that I would be virtuous and poor. By many standards, I live a better life than an elite of the 18th century. But I also am part of a system that has no brakes at all, even as life becomes increasingly frantic and the externalities are piling up all around us.

I'm not sure it's fair to say that it's the government's fault since capitalism has pretty much trounced good governance, at least in the countries where I live in. It's not politically possible to do things that reduce the power of capitalists, even if they are widely popular.
Let's not romanticize business too much, they want money.
How is the "pay once" pricing related to not wanting TS in his project ? Because it happened the same day ?
Ye I find it somewhat amusing that sharing a private key with the government is technically impossible. I guess you could be philosophical about whether it is private though, in that case.

Anyway, I am gladly surprised they seem to back off.
Possibly related: A few weeks ago I was told to use the autosave option of MS word. The login dialog went through, but then nothing happened. Classic Microsoft. I reinstalled Onedrive, autosave said it's on and I go ahead with my work. That was friday 3PM. Come monday, I find that the last 2 hours of friday are gone and spend about half an hour looking for it. I Ctrl+S about every 5 seconds so I can't imagine that there's no copy of it anywhere. But there wasn't one, it was just gone.

What happened was that onedrive was stuck trying to upload my VMs (I had those in my _local_ documents folder, which onedrive claimed ownership of during reinstallation without telling me). Onedrive never showed my excel file in the list of files it was uploading, so it could have either tried to do the VMs first and never got to the excel file or quietly errored out on that without ever uploading it.

In any case, I'm still dealing with the fallout of the fatal mistake I made: Trusting a microsoft product to do the absolute fucking basics.

Maybe I'll learn this time.
Observing the parameter being monitored and deciding whether to ground or not ground the resonant element.

"Passive" in this case meaning that none of the battery power was turned into RF. It did not produce any RF. It merely absorbed more or less RF to encode information.
If some other country would decide that they have the right to do anything in order to ensure that my own country can use only inferior technologies for making consumer products such as smartphones and SSDs, like USA tries to do to China, I would not consider that much less aggressive than "trying to destroy" or than an overt war declaration.

Frankly, China's reactions to the US "sanctions" have been extremely restrained and very far from proportional to what USA has done.

The claims of USA that their actions with the purpose of hurting leading Chinese companies like Huawei or SMIC are "sanctions", are pure BS. If they had really been sanctions, then USA would have presented to China some political demands that would have been conditions for avoiding sanctions, for instance they could have required the recognition of the fact that Taiwan is an independent country or a promise that they will not try to expand their sovereignty over the adjacent seas or better rights for minorities.

But USA did not tie any demands to the so-called "sanctions", so these are not sanctions. USA has also claimed that their actions, including the blackmailing of European and Taiwanese companies to stop selling their products to China have the purpose to hurt the Chinese military.

This is also complete BS. The impact on the military will be negligible. The only great impact has been on the US companies Qualcomm and Micron, whose competitors in smartphones and SSDs have been removed from the market exactly at the moments when it had become obvious that in the very near future the US products will no longer be competitive and will lose most of their market share.

Thus the champion of the "free market" could not find any other solution to stay in the top position, except by cheating.

The problem for USA is that this has been an action that has been possible to do only once, and it will be no longer available in the future. It has been wasted now providing gains only for some US companies, while many other US, European and Taiwanese companies have lost money, so they have been more preoccupied on how to circumvent the sanctions instead on how to support them.

If USA had adopted such policies against China at least 15 years earlier, they would have had a good chance to ensure a constant technological advantage for USA. If such policies would have been adopted some time later, in a future when China would still have had critical dependencies on US technology, in the case of a serious conflict they could have been blackmailed to accept whatever USA would have wanted.

Now, these policies have been adopted too late for preventing China to match USA in technology and too early to be able to force them to do anything, because by the time of any future conflict they will have had enough years to eliminate their external dependencies.
They didn't actually launch anything though. And self-hosting is also a real pain. There can be reasons but I seriously doubt many IT departments yearn deeply for the on-premise deployment days of yore.
I agree with the majority of what you wrote, but I'm utterly confused by this statement

> For some situations, subscriptions work well - music is one.

I've only ever purchased albums. Why in the world would I pay a monthly fee for something I presumably want to listen for for the rest of my life? 10-15$ for a one time purchase is far preferable to a monthly fee of nearly the same. I'm also weary of the idea of the services that have the right to stream music from labels X, Y, and Z suddenly pulling out, cutting off my access to the albums from artists I want to listen to at any given time.

I hope none of that comes off sounding "snobby" or whatever, I just don't understand how subscribing to listen to music is adventitious. Is it just not having to transfer music from the computer to your devices? Or is there something deeper I'm not getting?
Look into the work of Søren Eilers

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504039

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4169/amer.math.monthl...

(for the latter: use sci-hub)

Then there is also work for the 2D case by Tricia Muldoon Brown:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X1...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01562

as well as by Alexander M. Haupt:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10428
I am a bit surprised to read this about the UK.

Is this everywhere or just in some regions?

Anyway, the issue is not the taxation but the misuse, then?
The article definitely lacks some very important statistics. I don’t have enough knowledge to comment really, but my uneducated opinion is that in pharmaceuticals somewhat more regulation is better, also important during export/imports. Im in UK for context
Let's go back to wax cylinders, horses & buggies, and the old crank phone while we're at it!

Jokes aside: What kind of new features and tangible improvements are coming?

I get that "owning" a piece of software can have tangible value; but it depends on the purpose of the software and how it's used. I don't see a sudden revolution where all companies decide they want to run their own email servers and and host their own copies of Office 365. Instead, there needs to be use cases where the old-style purchase model and host-it-yourself model makes sense.

And these use cases are...?
Are you sure you understand how VEEAM MS365 actually backs up data?

They designed it to look like a differential backup model, but it's not. In fact the only backup you can trust as to its integrity is the first full one. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/retention_pol...

“When a retention policy is applied in backup repositories with the Snapshot-Based Retention type, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 removes versions of an item, but not an item itself. Data removal from backup occurs every time the restore point of an item's version in a backup file goes beyond the retention coverage. Eventually, if no more changes were made to an item, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 will remove all versions of an item except the latest one. The latest versions and items that were never changed stay in a backup repository with the Snapshot-Based Retention type forever.”
I don't buy into this. I'd rather pay monthly, and have them charge monthly to all the users so they sustain in the long-term and not keep going out of business. I hated AppSumo LTD for this same reason.
Very dubious that it's not.

Pumping an ultra dense, high viscosity fluid comes with significant energy losses due to friction.

Pumps/turbines have additional loses and are typically less efficient than direct mechanical gear drive.

You can make a shaft in more locations than you can find a hill.
I think this is an artifact of HN's voting system. Most readers probably don't have enough karma to even downvote. For the ones that do, guideline discourage downvoting for comments that you disagree with.

And I can see why the majority of HN readers would upvote the top level comment. Particularly since it's a popular re-hashed opinion.

Top comments aren't a good survey of the opinions of a specific community for that reason.
Been through a lot, I've experienced stuff and that as only made myself capable of individual identifying my individual feelings rather than them be one mono-feeling.

I get what you're saying.
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It's not completely untrue, there was a whole hoo-hah over getting Boris Johnsons WhatsApp messages. They use it to get around the requirement that official communications be logged and available for later scrutiny, much like a bank has to retain communications in case of an audit.
> Why do you think you don’t see any interesting oss tech from hobbyists is these days?

I do, in fact, see interesting OSS tech from hobbyists these days.

The VC-backed and FAANG stuff is more visible because it has a bigger promotional budget, and it very often is inherentlty more broadly interesting.

But it also tends to be quickly pivoted away from unless it meets quick wide commercial success.
I'm sorry you felt tricked by that dramatic device.

Perhaps listen to end of the podcast to get closure.
All things in moderation as they say.
> The Ruby on Rails stack may shine with this.

I would guess they just give you a Docker container, otherwise supporting different configurations and host machines sounds like too much of a hassle. Even some libraries shipping with the OS could influence the behaviour outside of pinned gems.