skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The log censorship _has_ to be because sketchy / malicious apps are reading private data from the log. And it seems pretty obvious that the greater good is achieved by blocking that personal data.

As a user, I certainly wish there was a logging level / filter / setting of “things that are broken that you can do something about”, along with the ability to dig into the underlying trace data that helps you better understand details about the problem. But I think it’s pretty clear to everyone that’s not the user that Apple is solving for. Even if you did have a clear bug & root cause, good luck getting it acknowledged & fixed through their public-facing bug tracker.
Thanks! Yeah I tried to put together a quick screen recording, so apologies about the lack of VoiceOver or feature walkthrough. If you go to https://www.timbreapp.io/ there should be more details there :)
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My work phone is an an iPhone 8. Employer provided. Most likely to be replaced pretty soon.
I've used Paddle in the past and it's been great! The tax handling worked very well.
In no particular order:
1. Use your powers of persuasion to drive better decisions
2. Recruit some good people
3. Suggest and execute some positive changes—“there’s this thing called source control and it’s great…” or, “seems like the reports we built aren’t that useful—how can we make this better”

There’s a trap here which is thinking it’s all crap so I may as well not try. It’s seductive but quite poinsonous to the organization and to the individual.
> My current organization has 8000 staff members, and I used to glance over the usage metrics of the dashboards my old team produced. I believe three dashboards were used, out of somewhere around 50 - 100. Of those being visited, it usually turned out they were being visited by members of our team checking to see if the data had refreshed for the day. I'd estimate the cost of maintaining our team was approximately $1,000,000, for an organization that supposedly can't afford to waste that money.

I’m not sure how to explain this, but often when I find posts on HN linking to an engineer discussing how management is doing it wrong (especially if it’s someone who’s not running a successful company themselves), there’s usually a hyperfocus on really insignificant numbers as evidence of their point.

This company has 8000 employees. And the cost of maintaining those dashboards is about $1mm according to the post.

It only takes someone in management to identify a change which improved employee efficiency by $125 annually to completely pay for the $1mm spent to maintain the dashboard.

Identify a new $125 efficiency improvement every year, and by year 5 your $1mm annual expense is saving you $5mm every year.
Oh I misread, sorry. In that case you’re completely correct. The right holding up dictatorships like Chiang Kai Shek, Pinochet, and Park regimes as being good are all great examples.
The former Twitter employee is wrong to claim that the platform was in a state of grace before Elon Musk took over. In fact, it was a cesspool of spam, especially in languages other than English, where there were no moderators to patrol the local scene. The article suggests that Musk should be humble to win back users, but the truth is that no one will miss Twitter except spambots and worthless influencers.
Vittorio was a giant in the identity community.

Other tributes:

* https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/blog/post/vittorio...

* https://twitter.com/Sarah_Cecc/status/1710752288573378995
Yes, but ending the ability of government employees who are forced to retire to seek employment in their field of expertise is not a good solution to corruption.
"operate everywhere" and "target each and every corner of the strip" are different citation, also do you speak Jewish or you relied on youtube autotranslate captions with questionable quality?
You can make improvements, but it ends up being small things that you can showcase to leaders to demonstrate that progress is happening, but it's nothing of actual material value. It's a lot like public political discourse where a policy solution is touted, all the ooh's and ahh's, but then nothing really changes.
Thank you for the feedback - I hammered this out over an hour this morning, and wasn't really expecting much readership but should have been more careful. As noted elsewhere on my blog, I'm young enough that I've only used Git, so it's good to know that the original example was not good. I read much too far into it given the other dysfunction I've seen from the same people.

In any case, I've made a speedy replacement.
We had only one customer who really deployed the platform in a prototype, and their feedback was generally positive but they seemed wary of investing in a platform without a solid company to support it, which I understand. Open-source is something of a risk mitigation but likely not enough when the only person who understands the codebase is me. This will undoubtedly be a major hurdle in sales conversations, and I'm not sure how to address it, since I'm not interested in collaborators at this point.
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It's better to have one place to look for diagnostic information. This sort of just-in-time masking seems optimal to me.
It's a fairly common problem when people realise they have inadvertently committed a secrets file.

You could say "well don't commit secrets files" but that doesn't immediately solve the problem.
Well I never argued that under the current rules OpenAI shouldn’t have to acquire an initial legal copy of copyrighted works, just like libraries do. So we agree.

If I were OpenAI I’d argue that a corpus built for the training of an AI model is transformative since it doesn't detract commercially from the original works. No one wanting wanting to train a model would otherwise be using that text to read the book instead.
GP isn’t asserting that. They’re saying that the the western establishment will gladly tolerate right wing authoritarian governments because they allow private companies to run roughshod over everyone in the name of profit.
Just as a professional follow-on to the joke, a lot of the places I've worked defined it between 50-100 years. Archeologists also have obligations to publish their findings, follow ethics guidelines, work with landowner/government/descendent approval, and attempt to avoid unnecessary excavations entirely.
It's not a revolving door though. People aren't going back into the military from contractor roles.
What a great post, thanks for sharing.
A country without a military isn't a country for very long
>The Pentagon cannot pass an audit of its budget to save its life, it's the status quo: https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2019/11/20/Pentagon-Fails-Aud....

That's not what the link claims though.

>The fiscal 2019 audit examined more than $2.9 trillion in assets and $2.8 trillion in liabilities, the Pentagon said. The process involved about 1,400 auditors conducting 600 site visits, at a cost of nearly $1 billion.

Sounds like they can't keep track of all the stuff they supposedly own (ie. "assets"). That's slightly different than its yearly budget simply disappearing. Even if this year they tracked down where every cent went, they'd still fail the audit, because they can't account for the stuff they purchased years ago.
He said he works 13h days.
Regardless of whether the things you assert caused the genocide or not, there was a genocide ongoing and your free speech and rational argumentation is completely impotent to stop it.
Retiring at 51 after a 30 year role is not conducive to survival on the pension.
Importantly, neither of these are solved merely by learning the dag structures internal to git.
I was expecting an thoughtful analysis, got a furious rant instead.

Not disappointed at all.
Of course the organization doesn't want to improve things. The bosses would have to be humble enough to receive feedback. Most people can't take feedback, let alone the bosses who feel that those under their management are beneath them.

At my last job, the bosses ignored everything even the smartest employees suggested. Changes only came when customers, news outlets, vendors, or auditors made suggestions. Anyone external had more influence on company direction than the most experienced employees. A person leaving an anonymous review on an app store had more influence.

It was clear that we were ignored because the bosses didn't want to take direction from those they manage. Their arrogance and fragile egos wouldn't allow them to.
By this same logic we should ban anyone working for the government from taking on a private sector job in the same field, and vice versa. Silicon Valley executives shouldn't be allowed to take a role in the government's technology group 18F?
> The log censorship _has_ to be because sketchy / malicious apps are reading private data from the log.

No, they aren't: "Currently, the only way to see unmasked log entries is through a special profile."
An absolutely disgusting response, to the point where I don't think you read the article or have a vested interest in preventing action.

This isn't about "the US recognizing the caste system" or even about who is responsible for it. It's about preventing very real, very tangible discriminatory effects happening to people TODAY, right now. When the time comes to prevent actual, quantifiable harm, slippery slope arguments and debates about the origin of the problem help absolutely nobody.
It's slightly more complicated, and the numbers are somewhat obfuscated to hide my actual employer. You're right that these numbers are not a huge deal - that much is obvious, or we wouldn't be wasting that money.

What is more relevant to the average reader is that we have a large department in this space, and almost all (not all) the work is pointless because the numbers just don't matter at this scale. We have a core business that generates amounts of money large enough to fund departments that do nothing other than reaffirm that we care about whatever that department is supposed to do. That's totally fine (though I doubt it's a deliberate strategy) unless you waste time thinking they want to make people read the dashboards. It turns out that it's totally irrelevant to anything - they just want to have the team there to say they care about data, and you'll go insane if you try to do your job better.

(Excellent critique though.)
> 1. Use your powers of persuasion to drive better decisions

"Appreciate the feedback but we got this covered. Please resume your duties."

> 2. Recruit some good people

Did you miss the part where I said that my comment is from the point of view of a working programmer and not an executive?

> 3. Suggest and execute some positive changes

See my reply to your (1) above.

> “there’s this thing called source control and it’s great…”

"Don't be a condescending smart-ass please, you are not being a team player right now."

> “seems like the reports we built aren’t that useful—how can we make this better”

"They work well enough for us and we have no time budget for any modifications, and we are not convinced the said modifications are necessary at all".

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Your move.
OK, that got a chuckle out of me.

Plus it makes me feel good about signing my commits!
I'm always amused when I see things like "this pyramid was cleaned out by tomb robbers long ago". How do we know they're not cleared out by archeologists? The Pyramid of Giza was already thousands of years old before the New Kingdom (which is still technically Ancient Egypt).

The Robbers' Tunnel in the Great Pyramid sounded well like a state funded archeological dig. Just that back in the day, humans didn't take care to not damage historical artifacts.
> Or cutting spending.

In the 2022 US federal budget, out of the $6.3T worth of total spending, $4.1T was mandatory: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. $1.7T was discretionary (top item being DoD), and $0.5T interest payments. Revenues were $4.9T.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

What do you want to cut in discretionary spending?
I think you're right.

This seems like a pretty plain blunder.
We're not talking about "a country without a military." We're talking about the american war machine, possibly the greatest engine of destruction and misery the world has ever known.

If the US can't exist without the atrocities it has been using its military to commit for the last century then sure, it should not exist. I suspect there are other paths, however.
> wasn't really expecting much readership but should have been more careful.

Fair enough but if you allow me to suggest you this: don't do it for the readership, do it for your own skills of eloquent and convincing writing. Even if nobody ever reads it, developing proper articulation and being exhaustive in your analysis will only make you smarter and better at what you do.

This is unsolicited advice though, and I apologize if it's misplaced.
Don't hide behind "we", stand for yourself. I found this article very readable and I heard what the author had to say.
Wow the HN algorithm buried this one. In the 200’s currently..
When he was governor, California was not so solidly blue. He was more popular than you might guess today.
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What domain expertise? They’re experts at navigating politics at that level more than anything else. The vast majority of these people are taking board seats. They don’t even work for the companies full time, let alone apply any of their expertise to AI companies and experimental drone platforms.

They’re there for connections.
A life of crime warps your world view a little bit at a time, until you find yourself doing things you never would have thought yourself capable of.
How is it fair to the people who worked hard to earn that wealth over the course of their lifetime?
Rail is certainly not an efficient transport between the DPRK and Russia. They run on different rail gauges, so all freight would need to be manually transferred to Russian box cars, or the bogeys on each rail car would need to be swapped out.
NYC has applied draconian rules on tenancies, and crazy restrictions on hotel construction. These units are not coming back, because the owners risk losing too much money. We'll just have knockoff Airbnb copies which will be worse for both sides
Newsom pointed to ancestry, which covers caste perfectly because it's all about ancestry.

> That this discrimination is occurring is not up for debate, it is objective fact

Source for this so called objective fact?

> which demonstrates the existing laws are not sufficient?

Even it true it doesn't doesn't demonstrate that. There are strict laws against murder, theft, assault etc. and they happen quite frequently. The fact that they are occurring doesn't automatically mean existing laws are not sufficient. Is there any country in the world where crime has been totally eliminated by just passing a million laws?
Most “generational” wealth is frittered away in a few generations. The problem tends to solve itself over time.
>Public servants/members of the military not only pledge to avoid conflicts of interest, but the appearance of them as well. Shouldn't we hold economic activity that services those interests to that same standard?

But are we willing to pay for it? Government jobs already pay pretty poorly compared to the private sector. Slapping the equivalent of a non-compete onto them isn't going to make them more appealing. You might have gotten rid of all the corruption, but you also ensured that the government will be staffed by monkeys.
Yep, I have found the same over my career. It's better than nothing, I agree on that, but it still ends up being infuriating because it's so damned slow.

Truth is, everyone just wants to clock out and go home. CEOs included.
I believe that too.

There are none in homeopathic “remedies” though, as their process of manufacture removes any and all potential active ingredients.
My favorite Roman graffiti: 8====)

Lest anyone think I'm trolling, I'm not. It's a remarkably well attested motif in Pompeii and elsewhere.
The similar find on Bornholm, mentioned in the article, is really something.

https://lejremuseum.dk/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2021/02/0...
In a big enough organization, it is a complex system with unpredictable outcome. Pouring your soul into it may lead to unexpected consequences as opposed to simpler environments where your contribution actually make a relative difference.
The formula is something like the longer a game is the less linear it needs to be to have a high replay value.

'The Last of Us' is incredibly long and among the best linear non open-world games ever made. That said, it's entirely linear and the thought of sinking such a massive amount of time into a game that's effectively a very long movie give it a very low replayability factor.

Likewise, Skyrim is a massive open world game that's incredibly linear and repetitive, giving it a low replayability factor.

Rockstar has several very long open world games that have massive replay value and don't get stale with repeat playthroughs. On the flip side, if you haven't played through 2 or 3 times you've generally missed a decent amount of content. GTA San Andreas, RDR2 and GTA V all fall into this rare category of long games that are highly replayable.

With open world games the key to high replayability seems to be NPC AI quality and providing different outcomes for different actions and the order in which you do things in-game. Allowing you to do lots of missions in whatever order you choose goes a long way to breaking up any feeling that you're watching a movie.
Could you elaborate? I disagree just because of the basic human nature, but I am curious about your rationale for the statement above.
>Then, as this gets more and more common, companies stop hiring people from South Asia because they don't want to deal with this.

And what is wrong with this solution, compared to the alternative of American companies and the American people being forced to deal with foreign prejudices and beliefs imported into their country?

When children get into a fight, adults intervene by separating the combatants and sending them home regardless of who is "right". As a non-Indian American, I don't know who is "right" regarding the existence and extent of caste-based discrimination. I don't care. I shouldn't care. I shouldn't have to know or care in the first place!
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This is a bit of an interesting take from: https://www.migadu.com/procon/

"We could enable 2FA on the webmail, but IMAP/POP/SMTP accesses remain unprotected which beats the purpose. We are working on solution here which will allow sand-boxing a username/password pair to a webmail use only."

That's an incredibly misguided sentiment
probably!

You might like the Magnetic Resonator Piano: http://instrumentslab.org/research/mrp.html
Lots and lots of men speak almost exclusively in vocal fry, why is it so strongly associated with the Kardashians?

Go listen to Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman.
Short URL: https://YouTube.br/4u5I8GYB79Y

Invidious: https://invidious.askiiart.net/watch?v=4u5I8GYB79Y
I'm talking specific to the US military and its uses and transgressions, not condemning everyone who has ever fought a war in history. Nothing in "basic human nature" made us do agent orange or abu ghraib. We chose this course and we must unchoose it.
IIRC, RDR2 does exactly this.

The issue is that you know exactly what percentage of the game you haven't experienced and exactly how good the game is and it makes it next to impossible to stop playing.
True, that's why if I get to work for a big organization again I'll not even entertain the idea of trying to make a difference in improving processes. I'll just gulp the salary and never stick my nose out of my direct responsibilities as written in the contract.

Making a difference can only happen in small tight-knit teams.
Part of the problem has to be that as an individual in an organization it seems like a better ROI for your effort to grow your share of the pie than the entire pie itself.

Individual incentives are naturally going to be aligned by advancement and "being difficult" is something everyone wants to avoid. Easier to shed blame and avoid accountability than try to fix the social and political structure of your organization. Mostly because even if you succeed, the organization wouldn't be sophisticated enough to understand and credit you for the work.
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I'd love to hear from someone with experience about what these metrics might mean and why these metrics are the ones X is focused on. That seems like a more productive avenue to focus on for a site like HN.
I might have been unclear: the Milwaukee protocol was not effective.

My point was, normal medical ethics seem to go out the window here. With most interventions, you can harm the patient, so you had best not give them anything until you test it.

But a symptomatic rabies patient is default dead. Given these results, it strikes me that we ought to move much faster through our usual phases and make it available for immediate use in centres which are symptomatic rabies patients.

If any of those patients start surviving, the drug has proven itself for general use and stats can be gathered. The control group is every prior symptomatic rabies patient: they all died.

The article made it sound like this will be something rolled out over several years. If that, as investment is required.

An estimated 59,000 people die of rabies each year globally. Each year of delay kills them. My question is should we not make this available immediately and see what happens?

It isn’t like heart disease where the patient will often live many years and so a new treatment must prove itself. Literally everyone dies of rabies if symptomatic.
Liskell was one.

It was Haskell with S-Expressions (Lisp like) as it's front end.
What do you think the most valuable board members of a large company tend to be well versed in?
This video tries to explain the issue, with examples:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?si=YfHHJXtVYWvqgFlD
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Most MCU code I've seen targets single core single thread especially that for hard real-time. Maybe the author can outline more of the thinking behind coroutines, fibres or green threads or whatever they considered. In a real time if you have callbacks triggered by physical events that may offer more certainty than coroutines doing stuff that might finish, sometime.
What is the difference in the meaning?
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Windows's fleet management features are far better than Mac and Linux. Centralized user management, patching, policies, and application deployment all built into the OS "just works" for IT in the same way Macs "just work" for users. It's not something that can be seen as easily from a user perspective though. I've been... frustradedly enjoying watching the IT department from the company that acquired us attempt to recreate Active Directory in aggregate with a bunch of third party tools on our Macs. An example: last week I had a meeting with IT because one of their tools wasn't collecting logs or whatever. Turns out the tool didn't have the full disk access permission turned on. No good enterprise management solution should allow the endpoint to override settings from corporate, and especially it should have a way to change every setting on the device remotely. Windows has that built in to Pro and Enterprise editions, Linux has enough server management tools that you can sorta build one yourself, Macs like to think the company's laptops belong to the users.
Is there any evidence that this app actually does that? So far it doesn’t seem to.