skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive done that. I am doing that. Using the outdoors as a natural heatsink isnt crazy. In a couple months it will be -30 outside my window. Why should my computer fans whirl around constanly using 20c indoor air when literally inches away there exists and unlimited supply of -30c outdoor air? Some simple water cooling parts, a 30$ heat exchanger and a little radiator fluid. Net result is lower temps and significantly lower noise. The only practical problem is consensation, but with dew points of -30c even indoors that isnt much of a worry.
>Are you saying this isn't a clever use of loopholes

No, she's saying that a clever use of loopholes doesn't exclude you from being an asshole.
Val Town v3
Not really. They publish a lot of blogs explaining design decisions. It almost always comes down to making the services as accessible as possible.

Part of that involves really simple layouts, very high contrast text, legible fonts, compatibility across many devices, simple language etc.

It's certainly an added benefit that it gives an appearance of austerity, but that's more a byproduct of simplicity.
Generation is a means to an end. It's up to the user to decide what that end is: it can be absolute naff, or it could be a solo auteur's masterpiece. The problem isn't AI, it's Valve's complete abdication of quality control.
Okay, that's an animation.
>people being free to choose the way want to live their lives

Do you think this is what the Iranians choose?

>There is high voter turnout

Are you claiming Iran has free democratic elections?

Just to put this in some perspective - Iran has an extreme shia muslim regime. Following the laws of shia islam is strictly enforced (don't wear a hijab? get beaten and thrown in jail. Homosexual? get publicly hanged from a crane). Now, how many Iranians do you think self-identify as shia muslims? The answer is around 30%. And this was before the recent country-wide mass demonstrations against the shia regime. Realistically maybe 10-20% of Iranians support this violent authoritarian regime.

Oh and we didn't even talk about the opression of women, which are, you know, about 50% of the population.

I think it's pretty funny how contrarians from the West will whitewash anything as long as it opposes what they believe is wrong with the West. You see it with the extreme right and Russia, and the extreme left and Iran. Ironically these 2 regimes are closest allies.
Something you have to understand about being remote - at any time, this was true decades ago - is that you are not there when people talk and you can't correct them or defend yourself. People with commutes and requirements to be under the eyes of management resent those who don't have that problem and can all agree on that.

Remote gigs will always be more tenuous than prison-jobs.
> immigrants from non-Western countries and their descendants

Key word "descendants". Are those by any chance children, who were born in the country (therefore are not themselves immigrants) and need to be educated? It seems dishonest to count them as not contributing when they're not old enough to.

Again, most immigrants are not eligible for any welfare until they are fully naturalized.
Anyone remember the “boss key”?
it is really cool but at the same time I can not stop smiling when the governement is telling you of about the best practices how to use web technologies, it is just funny
I don't have the knowledge of those volumes of political science and modern investigation systems where electronic identity can be applied to greater negative effect. That's why I was asking for more concrete examples instead of hand waving.
> Meanwhile Tim Sweeney looks like a visionary

meanwhile his company is failing
> In 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported on the difficulties faced by the firm. At that point, Voleon had an annualized return since inception of 10.5%, below the S&P 500 index return of 10.7% over the same period. One of the problems encountered was that financial markets were chaotic, and machine learning systems were best applied where patterns were more repeating in nature. In addition, patterns that are found can be easily made redundant after investors notice them and take advantage on them. Gary Smith writes that patterns discovered by the algorithms are often simply coincidences rather than actual correlations.[2][3][7]

> In 2018, Voleon had a return of 14% during a market turndown where the S&P 500 index dropped 6.2%. However, in 2019, its returns dropped to 7%, below the returns of its hedge fund peers of 9.2%. In 2020, Voleon's flagship fund lost 9%.[6][8]

Given their returns, how do they have 7.6 billion AUM?
10+ years and still no light theme for people with astigmatism who may prefer that

yet they seem to re-arrange the UI layout every few months for no discernable benefit
Funny, my first thought was Bill Wurtz saying "you could make a religion out of this"[1], and my second thought was that if it actually happened, they probably made a whole bunch of religions about it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs&t=360s
> [...] one of the main vulnerabilities in protocols like these is in the 'personalization' stage of the setup, where each card gets a set of default 'provisioning keys,' which are used to register the card and get unique user keys for it. A sample of unpersonalized blanks would yield that, and the costs associated with mitigating this with batch specific keys for provisioning is typically too much complexity.

Is your point "some smartcard schemes don't use key diversification, so this one probably doesn't either", and more generally "some smartcard schemes are implemented insecurely, so surely this one must be too"?

> There may be a DoS vulnerability in some card schemes where you can use 'torn' NFC connections to get the key and transaction counter on the card applet to increment and desynchronize from the counter recorded on the server, bricking the card

Speculation again, or do you have concrete evidence for this protocol being susceptible to torn transactions? Some are, some aren't.

Also, you know what else you can do to a card when you have physical access to it? You can take a pair of scissors and cut it in half! A remote bricking capability would be concerning, but requiring an intentional and repeated transaction tear hardly seems noteworthy.

> Given the physical user enrollment costs, there are some basic impossibilities in these protocols [...] I am very grateful this researcher has done work to discredit this scheme.

It seems like you are generalizing from one concrete project to all smartcard systems, for what seem to be somewhat irrational motives.
Yes, when the mutex or condvar is inited with attribute PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED.
Google does this.
It’s an old fad become new again.
I'm American. I don't live in a gated community, I don't pay for private security, and I don't fear for my life.

So maybe your basing your position on stereotypes rather than reality?
I'm glad I don't live somewhere so unsafe that I feel the need to buy arms or armour.
I dislike the fact that on the changes on the Google Play Store, instead of listing the key changes, they have the boilerplate BS "we work to enhance...".

As a good practice, and having suffered from the stupid (and dick-ish imho) changes, I do not update their app, and I have my NoRootFirewall blocking plenty of their garbage IPs. This doesn't let me see my "annual lists" but I don't mind that a bit. Zero value vs some privacy.. I pick privacy every time.
to engineer modern feudalism?

I don't think so
Opt-in experiments carry a huge bias, which is hard to extrapolate to the general user base. As annoying as changes Spotify can be, at least it’s highly unlikely to be used for “important stuff” like emails or general business stuff. Easier to justify small annoyances.
From https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/5/airlines-gro...:

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, when reporters went to visit the company’s headquarters in London, nobody in the building had heard of AOG Technics.

This means that nobody at Delta nor any other airline even took the time to pay a visit to the company's so-called headquarters. For an airline looking to choose a new supplier for airplane parts, I'd say they skipped even to most basic due diligence checks.
Comparing the prompt is an idea, also
I have seen articles claiming you can retorque the screws that hold on the cover plate.
It’s hard to just say “America has cheaper” anything. It really depends on where you live.

For instance it’s cheaper to live in Ohio than California.
Thats genuinely incredible. Reminds me of when I looked into accounts at maersk and realised they did a similar thing with their ships. The idea that something could ever depracate all the way to zero but still be on the books as an asset seems broken to me but I'm not a financial guy so I haven't been able to dive into arguments about why it may or may not make sense.
1995: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/k5hka0/bug...

19th century: the cobra effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Note that “productivity” here refers to GDP PPP / hours worked. No doubt it is a good proxy for productivity but I wouldn’t go as far as to equivocate the two. There is just too much stuff in GDP, and especially GDP calculations, that doesn’t mesh with the idea of productivity that well.
No, but they are more or less a monopoly over PC gaming. Yes, there are alternatives, but they are a tiny percentage of the market, and your ability to sell to the PC market will be severely limited. People don't use the other storefronts unless they really have to, and your indie game using AI-generated assets is unlikely to get people to move over.
Health wasn't the (immediate) topic. Financial ruin wasn't the topic. So you're criticizing them for not replying to a point that wasn't the point under discussion, which seems rather unfair.
Crypto was a decentralized ponzi scheme. AI will be decentralized mass copyright infringement.
If the article is twice as long, I'd say it definitely should have more details about each local reports, including dates in their corresponding calendars.

But at current length? I think that detail would not be necessary and even kinda distracting in term of briefness. It's not really of great importance for the event itself anyway.
> for no discernible benefit

They notice that majority of the users spend more time listening to the 'automation' of growing your playlists, auto-play similar songs in the end of your songs, etc. So maybe their changes anger you, me, and a few others, the majority absorbs them without a thought.
Facebook's JavaScript is horrible (2011) [video]
It's not some kind of a novel hack, it's a boring old squatting. There are even multiple films made about this (e.g. Pacific Heights cited multiple times in this topic) not to mention countless articles and news pieces. It's as much of a hack as carding.
Yeah I think the approach here in Canada has also contributed to the housing price crisis because it's cherry-picking immigrants with large initial investments, and they're coming here and dumping $$ into "sure thing, number only go up" housing.

And we've ended up with a bit of a shortage of working class unskilled labour, while at the same time screwing skilled immigrants who came here thinking they were coming to a land of prosperity to be an engineer or doctor and they end up as taxi drivers or convenience store clerks.
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Could you recommend some alternatives to Google Analytics? I am developing a plugin for Photoshop using UXP, and I have been unable to integrate it with GA.
You don't need to have a very high average. It's sufficient to have a high wet bulb temperature for a few days to kill off large portions of the population. Also consider that Africa is going to represent most of the demographic growth of the world in the next few decades. And consider the effects of all this combined with political instability you quickly get into a situation like the floods in Libya.
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To be fair, that's the "connected edition" variant of Java Card 3 – to my knowledge, nobody actually uses that.

But even the "classic edition" usually supports regular secure channel communication. It's not TLS, but it achieves the same outcome (i.e. secure remote card access by a remote conceptual terminal).
Shit idea.

Boosters are not widely available in many countries for people outside the risk group.

In a lot of places you simply cannot get a booster currently unless you are a healthcare worker, or documented risk group.

No, you can’t even get them privately at this time either.
Overall self-reported life satisfaction seems comparable between Western Europe and the US, with the US sitting middle of the pack, and nordics reporting the highest life satisfaction.

That suggests that some of the extra wealth effect in the US is balanced by social safety nets in Europe, when it comes to life satisfaction.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/happiness-cantril-ladder?...

All of these countries are pretty wealthy in the scheme of things: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness
We have now gone full circle back to web directories. If I remember correctly they had these "app stores" back in the 90s.

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/1403968/y...
Nova: A native Mac Code editor from the creators of Coda
I'm sure there's other nasty substances not covered by it, but I'm glad RoHS2 exists for things like this.

Otherwise you would have really had to get a dedicated oven to do that reflowing. Or lead all over your oven.
Virtual networking 101: Bridging the gap to understanding TAP
0% odds of something completely drastic, too many of the best went remote.
As adev_ mentioned, TLS implicitly requires a lot of things that can be considered expensive for very low power devices (dare I say "bloat"). Examples being things like X509 certificates.

Another thing to consider is that TLS supports multiple use cases and has multiple versions, so it has stuff like algorithm negotiation, version negotiation and some other things that are really unnecessary when you just want a secure channel between two parties with pre-shared keys[1]. If you strip all those extra things from TLS you'll basically end up making your own protocol anyway.

What I'd like to see is a standardized protocol for this exact use case: two parties with pre-shared public keys, no algo negotiation[2], and only sending what's really needed over the wire without extra metadata. TLS is not quite right for this use case IMO.

[1] Yes, TLS-PSK exists but it's largely an afterthought and not always implemented by libraries, because it's considered a niche use case for TLS. To some degree, same thing can be said about client certificates.

[2] I think the article does say that they have algo negotiation in their custom implementation anyway. Personally I'd hardcode something like ChaCha20Poly1305, mainly because it's reasonably fast in software and on low-power devices.
> the economy of buying something that has two or three years shorter support life

Unfortunately there are no other options in that form factor. The closest would be the iphone 13 mini, which has an even earlier release date than iphone SE 3rd gen.
Read and calculate, read and calculate. Stop buying. Stop driving. Seek a healthy lifestyle, high quality food, and high quality health care. Work within your body's tolerance and live within your means. Be active in your community helping others, participate in your government, and vote correctly.
It's an isometric game, so the viewport is not a cone projection but a cube.
Thanks for the reminder that Heinz (Henry) Kissinger is still alive at age 100.
How about EC signatures?

My Yubikey (which I imagine is a bit more sophisticated than a NFC tag can be) is said to be able to hold Ed2519 keys and use them for signing, but I was never able to actually do that. :)
// also, as a middle class earner i much prefer my lower class neighbors having a good social safety net and other guarantees because i really don't want my neighbors kids go hungry.

In the US kids don't go hungry. The truly poor have food stamps and other aid so I don't get this comparison.
What is HCOL?
> Meta has even implemented limits on how often these workers hired as remote are allowed to come into the office, but have not divulged the reason for doing so.

The simplest answer is that they literally don't have enough space for all of the workers to be in the office at the same time, right? They probably didn't have enough space to begin with if a lot of the workforce was remote.
A few more off the top of my head

Android could be spun off.

The whole pixel phone business as well.

GSuite could be its own thing.

I think google is still an ISP in some parts.

They’re research sections too.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend moving from an existing react frontend to hotwire at the same time as upgrading Rails itself. I'd get to Rails 7.1 first/independently.

FWIW the Rails 7+ way of doing single page app JS is also more reasonable than it used to be. You pretty much just use whatever build tool you want in isolation from your rails app. You have to run something like `yarn build --watch` alongside `rails s` in development but IMO that's not so bad and makes things a lot simpler.

My company builds software to automate Rails upgrades, and offers a full service where we'll upgrade Rails for you. steve (at) infield.ai if that's interesting or you can generate a free rails upgrade plan at https://app.infield.ai/users/sign_up (no cc required). https://docs.infield.ai/docs/creating-an-upgrade-path for some more details.
Mistral 7B ~ 8 GiB

StableLM 3B ~4 GiB

You could go even lower with smaller quantization if necessary. I personally wouldn't use anything smaller than 7B and Mistral already pushing it in coherence. Overall it depends on your use case, not everyone needs smart models, or large context that sometimes takes half of required memory.

Codellama is also surprisingly good even for non-coding tasks
For those of you interested in the intersection of "make vs buy" decisions, self hosting torrent servers and working at a hedge fund, you might get a kick out of this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/alexpotato/status/1661334108180566016
The usually unstated question underlying these sorts of comparisons is basically: "where people are better off?". But that can never really be answered, because

* Different people value different things: am I better or worse off when I live in a small apartment in a city and go everywhere by bike/bus while my children cycle to the local public school themselves vs owning a big house with a big garden and a big car, driving them to school every day? Even to what extend such different lifestyles are by choice or necessity are hard to tell.

* Quality of life differences can be very different for different segments of the population (high vs low income, minorities, children, retirees, people with disabilities, etc). Is a country better or worse of when the QoL is a bit worse for a bottom quartile high school drop-out, but a bit better for a a top-quartile doctor, or a third quartile nurse or police officer?

Such questions can't be answered, because they depend mostly on subjective weights.
It's definitely possible: eSIM provisioning uses TLS too, as far as I know (between the eSIM chip and the provisioning service).
> The goal is for Slack’s employees to reach Trailhead’s Ranger level, a feat that requires roughly 40 hours on the learning platform, whose modules include topics like “Learn about the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Healthy Eating.”

At which Trailhead level do they tell you about Xenu?
I just saw a listing on ebay (https://www.ebay.it/itm/115853434151) selling a machine with 1TB ram and 4x "Xeon Platinum 8160" (24c/48t each) for ~8'000 euros.

The motherboard should support up to 12TB ram.

And it's a plain regular HP ProLiant server, so it's not going to give you any hassle when running Linux. Heck, some distributions (likely RHEL or SuSe) might even be certified for use on that platform.

So to sum up: for people with money and wanting to play on large-ish datasets, a second hand mac pro is really a poor choice on how to spend their money.

Note: i didn't even look that hard for a better offer or a better-priced listing.
Their leadership didn't seem to know what to do and chased a few passing fads for new features, and didn't address the tech debt they had to improve the UX of their tool.

They added a wallet with Stellar Lumens when that should have been entirely separate. Git repo hosting that should have been left to Github/Gitlab. etc etc.

My opinion is that they should have focused on integration with 3rd parties like github. Plus working on tech debt and UX issues. Created lots of docs on integrating KeyBase with your internal tooling, stuff like that.
Definitely some serious mental illness going on here, but I can’t say the chatbot is 0% culpable if it’s telling this kid it approves of assassination. If a human were writing that encouragement for murder they’d have some explaining to do in court.
ElBaradei won in 2005, when he was a vocal opponent of Bush's military interventions (Obama's prize in 2009 was likewise mainly a rebuke of Bush).

Tawakkol Karman (2011) has been a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia.

Willy Brandt received his prize specifically for increasing ties with the Eastern Bloc.

In terms of prizes giving for those working against particular regimes, anti-apartheid activists have received the most (1960, 1984, 1993).

A lot of people end up making assumptions based on their own personal biases.
there's nothing deeper than the surface level as LLMs aren't capable of generating anything original
It is possible to have completely above-the-board, fair elections and wind up with a set of politicians who work expressly against the interests of the people. I hope you don't consider that a point in dispute.
Crazy that this was only 2 years away from Windows 95.
Noob question: why don't governments issue a private key to every citizen so that they can identify themselves "easily" in web forms and the like? The government would keep the corresponding public key.

You could go in person to any government building and request a new private key to override the previous one if needed.
The downside was “getting to and from the venue” and the abject lack of food options in the venue and nearby area.

The on site food vendors were - universally - garbage.

The nearby options were also pretty bad.

You had to spend maybe 45 minutes commuting to get somewhere reasonable
This is the model mask I've used and continue to use since the epidemic began (this is NOT a photo of me).

https://austintechsupply.com/blogs/news/benefits-to-wearing-...

You will note that, unlike the masks most people wear, it goes around the head, not over the ears, and employs not one but two flat rubber head straps.

IMHO ear-mounted masks cannot possible be as closely fitting over the face and effective as those that go over the head.

I first saw this mask in a photo of President Biden, who was wearing one.

I figured if it was good enough for him and his advisers it was plenty good enough for me.

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