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I think we need to re-think the fundamental reasons for why we use computing technology. There was a time where computers were mainly used to assist humans in handling complex, tedious tasks. Specifically, tasks rooted in computation and organization of data.

Today people expect, because they have been sold the idea that computers should do everything from drawing for them to fulfilling their social needs as a human.

I think it's time to step back and really think about what the role of computers should be and how we as humans use computers.

I remember when using the Internet and digital media were in their early stages. Compared to today there was a very small segment of the population doing those things. You were underground if you were playing video games on the Internet.

Most computers lived in offices doing what they did best: office work.

Maybe we've gone too far in the wrong direction.
It was one of many examples, if you want to pretend PC game interfaces (speaking of fallout again, the same key for gun bash and grenades, plus a trillion other things in basically all AAA games) aren't gimped by consoles that's great, but you finding it "weird" and "odd" isn't even an argument.
Their point isn’t about Telegram end to end encryption or lack thereof, its that they don’t comply

Nothing gets taken down from telegram and they ignore court orders they just go to null
I believe the pleasure you derive from a language largely depends on what you use it for. What a language can truly offer is increased convenience and efficiency.
It would be funny if his parents just stopped showing up to court and couldn't be found anywhere.
The Enigma machine was probably the weakest of its kind of machines. It had a critical security flaw in that it could never encipher a letter to itself, and most of its security came from the IV settings, which were communicated in such poor fashion that the Poles cracked it long before WW2 even started.

By contrast, the US and British rotor machines were never cracked by the Axis powers in WW2, and the other two German rotor ciphers were less thoroughly cracked by the Allies.
It's pretty interesting to me to see these patterns of who gets credit and who doesn't. My ex-wife got off of active duty and joined the national guard to go to college nearly 20 years ago before she got back in as an officer through ROTC. While she was in the guard, she deployed with a civil affairs unit to Djibouti, which we have always maintained a permanent presence in to secure shipping lanes for oil. She was their supply sergeant and she identified a problem with the local water supply and got them all the equipment they needed to fix it, and in the process probably legitimately saved at least thousands of lives. She got a bronze star for it, but certainly no magazines will ever have heard of her.

It's even more interesting that she got branch-detailed to the field artillery when she got back in, and I'm pretty sure she became the first female to ever command a combat unit in the Army when she filled in as XO of a forward line battery and they lost their permanent commander. But you'll never see her in a history book or read about her on Wikipedia because it was still illegal at the time for women to serve in combat units at all, and officially she was on the books as part of the brigade headquarters company, only filling in because they were severely understaffed.

I try to keep her in mind when I feel like I'm being slighted at work and not getting sufficient recognition for accomplishments as I earn a salary triple what she gets as a Lieutenant Colonel now.
Point of order: victims are not "parties" in criminal cases, not in remotely modern legal systems. The parties are the accused and the state.

For the same reason, victims don't get to pardon crimes committed against them.

... which is the way it should be, because criminal punishment should not be seen as a form of revenge, but as a deterrent.
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It's a bullshit job when, if you don't do it, or don't do it well, there really aren't any meaningful consequences for anyone.

There are other ways the job could be done, but your management doesn't want them done that way.
It's not necessary, still helps
Thanks! It's a beautiful bike, it'll sell. I haven't worked myself up to listing it, yet. I decided to sell it before this year's riding season...
Billions (the tv show), of all places, made a somewhat similar argument in favor of post-hoc investigations, in the last episode.

Record and share everything immediately = no room for deals

Record nothing = too much room for corruption

So we land at... record everything + only review with just cause + strict whistleblower protections.

Which seems a nice splitting of the matter, but requires a strong, independent third party (e.g. judicial branch) to arbitrate access requests. With tremendous pressure and incentives to breach that limit.
Of all the versions of the Windows UI, Win 7 was -- for me -- the best by far. Nothing else even comes close, and everything from Win 8 on has been substantially worse.
kpop culture is closer to "crack addict culture" than mainstream gaming.
Not sure if its what the poster above is talking about, but there's definitely a hash collision type attack that's common on Youtube with regards to classical music. The attacker in question uploads very standard renditions of thousands of pieces of classical music, and claims copyright on them. Content ID then flags any video using one of these pieces as potentially violating the rights of the rightholder.

The attacker then claims the video, and claims revenue on the video rather than taking it down. There's an appeal process which seems to work about 0% of the time, and after that the only recourse the uploader has is to submit a copyright counter notification, which becomes the start of a potential lawsuit.

The attackers in question will then typically relent if challenged with a copyright counter claim, but most videos don't get counter claimed once this happened.

This pattern of behavior seems so common that it has led to two interesting patterns of behavior that I've seen.

1) Any video that uses popular public domain music will be claimed not once, but dozens or hundreds of times, because there are so many channels operating this way now, and

2) If you post a video and immediately get hit with a huge wave of claims, rather than going through Youtube's process, most uploaders just delete the video, remove whatever audio caused the problem, and reupload.
This kind of reasoning is slightly problematic. What does it mean if properties of "logic" are "logical"? Does that lead to tautology, recursion, symmetry, or worse?

I notice that you put "logical" in quotes, so you seem to be aware of this problem. Any idea how to get around it?
Could you use the heat pumped out of the house by the AC to dry the desiccant?
We should have 4 standards bodies in 4 non-allied nations each define an encryption standard and apply all 4 on top of each other in a bolstering fashion for all encrypted traffic
A spy agency or secret police doing this to use the client-side scanning system as a surveillance/censorship system for political media would not care about that.
You could use the waste heat from the heat pump (standard A/C) in step 3 to heat/dry the desiccant in step #1. That heat is, like you said, just dumped outside now. Why not make use of it?
Living in Arizona, this is always a surprising fact to remember since the electric bill is highest in the summer.

On one hand I understand heating has way bigger temperature differentials to overcome but heat is so easy to make. Most machines and technology create heat as a waste or byproduct so it always feels like purposely creating heat should be so easy.
> but for the wide public, as of today, it’s still a stronger selling point.

Is it really? People care that their phone takes great pictures each and every time, I doubt think you need to add that the way you do this is by applying various machine learning algorithms.

Where A.I falls down for me is in the failure cases, simply telling me that more training is required or that the training set was incomplete isn't good enough. You need to be able to tell me exactly why the computer made the mistake, and the current A.I products can't do that. That should be a strong indicator to shy away from A.I powered products in many industries.
You’re not communicating in good faith. Thrash all you like.
My classic Macs still have handles on their tops, and they were designed to be desktop machines.

A toast to the hardware manufacturer that considers the fact that tangible objects get moved.
Why don't they hire a react native developer and train them up on swift or kotlin?
I have the privilege of working at a smaller company, where I get to pick my tools and write software primarily solo in an engineering context, and where the requests of the peers and clients using my tools make their way to me with great detail. I have lengthy mathematical analysis discussions with my boss on a nearly daily basis. I can see the value I am creating almost directly.

I consider myself incredibly lucky and count my blessings every day.
Isn't it just a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse which is very common in physical product design.
Ooof ok I hadn't thought that through. I guess I was more thinking at the end of the text like I think The Guardian does just opting not for a popup but yeah honestly you're right. Don't put ads in my content either.
Try starting the three players in that page all at once!
There's always tree-style tabs, eg https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Yeah that are OK but really not worth the asking price. The reality is that it doesn't matter to most peoples who buy them.
I learned this when I was younger quite a while ago (about 20 years). I had the 1.5 gen iPod and a friend's big brother had the 2nd or 3rd gen and he complained that he had lost the earbuds. I told him that I could find him some pretty good earbuds for a decent price but then he asked me if they would have the same look. Of course I told him that they would look pretty different but it didn't matter because they would have better audio quality anyway. But he really didn't see it that way, he would rather pay the same amount of money and get the looks.
This day I learned how vain people can be (this guy is rather smart, nowadays he has a PhD...). I barely used the earbuds sold with the iPod ; I thought they were included just to have something usable but not to expensive and it wasn't in Apple's core competence to provide something better.

In the end it seems that most people would chose the worse experience just to signal they have an expensive product and I believe this is what happens with the AirPods as well.

I had some, used them for a year, found they had many annoyances and too short battery life after just one year of middling use. I bought a replacement for half price that are better in most ways and sold the airpods to a friend for 30 bucks.
He knew all the criticism I had for them as well as the short battery life ; I even told him that for 20 bucks more he would find something that could be more satisfying. He didn't care and as soon as he had them he started wearing them in public everywhere even though he had never been using earbuds previously.

The funny thing is that considering how cheap you can buy them second hand and how everybody and their mothers has them it cannot be seriously taken as a sign of wealth nor appartenance to a special community in the know.

It really all boils down to vain irrationality...
This is only true when prices change slowly. If I use a computer to do my pricing, the here’s what can happen in real time.

Player A raises prices. Algorithm automatically raises everyone’s prices to the new average.
Player A lowers prices to be in line with new average.
everyone’s prices come down very slightly because A is now towing the line.

A was able to raise the prices of everyone before anyone can adjust their spending accordingly.

This is a real problem, and big players are going to continue to learn how to game it to the detriment of all.

BTW I’ve seen this strategy play out in online games with heavy botting. It’s funny to see there. Not funny to have potential to happen in real life.
> “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari

I was looking forward to this book but found it to be almost unreadable. I don't remember my specific issues, just that I was discouraged after several attempts and gave it up which rarely happens with me.

I believe I had just read a few other novels about human evolution/ancient civs and found some of Yuval's assertions to conflict (IMHO) with what I read elsewhere, most likely The Dawn of Everything (not certain).
I'd like to see a writeup of LORAs for something that is readily tractable without LORAs. E.g., a pretrained ResNet34 ImageNet model that gets a LORA instead of being fine-tuned or fully re-trained. The pedagogical value is that it can be compared to the alternatives which are tractable in this setting (and which are not in an LLM setting).
Not sure where you are, but the southwest tends to have pretty dog friendly policies. Sand Dunes, White Sands, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest (these are just ones I’ve been to off the top of my head) all allow pets on trails with some minor limitations: e.g. Pets only allowed on rim in Grand Canyon.

Pretty easy to google a list of dog friendly parks.
Totally agree. I was on the out of the box side for too long.

It is a little too complicated to setup in the beginning but it has more first principles to learn before combining maybe due to the complexity it can handle.
No thumbs required :)
If there's something wrong with the work they do in the kitchen, it doesn't matter how that came to be. If there is nothing wrong with it, it doesn't matter what else (other than something that would make them do something they shouldn't in the kitchen) they talk about outside of the kitchen.

The solution can't possibly be not even knowing the difference between someone putting salt or toe nails into a pan -- but ensuring cooks don't talk to each other, so even though we have no clue what they're doing or should be doing, we magically know nothing bad is going on.
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Cache-Tags and Purge API on Netlify
I remember reading boot magazine having a tutorial about how to build a carputer around this time and my mind raced about how awesome that'd be.
Ask HN: Employers, what's your perspective on current hiring trends?
Much has been written about the experience of applying to tech jobs in 2023, and how frustrating, if not emotionally draining it is for many of us.

One of the most common experiences being to receive zero interest (ghosting or an automated rejection email) for a perfectly qualified candidate that applied on a timely, non-spammy manner.

However, we know less about the employers' perspective.

Which are some things that are less obvious to those not on the hiring side, which would help us understand why things are the way they are?

Is GPT behind this filtering, perhaps in an "unofficial" way?

Are you receiving a truly exhausting number of applications?

Are ChatGPT-powered applications a real problem (i.e. there's real hesitation as for the authenticity of a given profile), or those can be quickly detected and discarded?

Finally, you see trends in candidates that would quickly put them in the "no" bag?
I had five jobs in my first five years, then two jobs five years each. In general all my raises came from promos or stock matching when getting a new job. One of the things that helps with staying is if the company is growing there’s a vacuum pulling people up. A big company is relatively stable so promos are fewer and less lucrative, but stock growth was a thing. But after the fifth job there was definitely more scrutiny on job hopping
As mentioned in the design philosophy of the repository, the goals are to be intuitive, more convenient, and to have a lower learning curve, among other things. Programmers are always the first-class citizens.
> That being said, the new silent trend among some companies is to try and use NFTs to put products behind a paywall. Shopify built a service for merchants to build their own blockchain-based products. With it, sellers can literally “tokengate” users based on who decides to buy an NFT and those who don’t.

This article makes it sound like a bad thing, but this is exactly what a subscription or even a ticket is; the entire point of an NFT is to be able to model such non-fungible assets on a decentralized system, making it possible to, say, tokenize a ticket to a concert and then transfer it around safely and yet with full extensibility in how the transfer is completed (you want a jury-backed escrow? go ahead and code the contract) without the need of a centralized arbiter attempting to back the sale.
> Meanwhile the utility of the mugger's finger is questionable. The pain of losing the finger is the only real cost. If they are just a petty criminal, the loss of their finger will probably reduce their ability to commit crimes and prevent him from inflicting as much suffering on others as he otherwise would have. Maybe losing his finger actually increases utility.

Yes, the mugger removing his own finger, in Bentham's words, would "prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness", assuming the mugger is going to continue a life of crime where fingers help him. If the mugger was a pediatric surgeon who was performing a one-time theft (and we can trust him to never do it again) to get some quick cash on his way to work it might work. It doesn't resolve what the money was originally for, but at least that finger could be as important as your medicine.
No red flag in terms of a bad manager; red flag that reflects poorly on an interviewee who is strange enough to think that something like this matters.
I'm just glad its not money going to natural gas greenwashing.
Jing is similar but loom does a lot more post processing and continues the expansion of the idea.

I used to recommend to clients to pre-install the free Jing on all of their pcs, was awesome.
If you feel stuck in your life that can be a horrible feeling, regardless of how good your life is.

When I first got married and had kids I finally saw clearly the long span of my life ahead of me, and all the lives I wouldn’t live… it was pretty jarring. The cure, for me, was re-realizing just how lucky I am, despite my shortcomings. Listen to the news and pretend it’s you. Bask in your luck that it’s not.

There is a technique called “self authoring” that I recommend for anyone stuck like this. Write down your own story - just a few pages is fine. It’ll do you wonders to get your own story straight. I can’t explain why it’s so motivating.

That and no avocado toast!!
Have we forgotten the RedHat Redneck localization that used to be in the installer ?
Yeah, but some -R-- is harder than others. Streaming video is much more difficult than a text-only blog.
Yes, the people selling the hammer want you to believe it's a sonic screwdriver. What else is new? You sort of prove my point when your evidence of who is making those claims are the people with a vested interest, not the actual scientists and non-equity developers who do the actual coding.

"But a company said the tech in their space might be ground-breaking earth-shattering life-changing stuff any minute now! What, you think people would just go on the internet and lie!?"
(original author here)

Note that ARIN NRPM 4.10 now requires the requested range to be used exclusively for IPv6 transition and not anything else.

As for full table, several providers I recommended in the original post are able to do a full table for less than $10/month. You can also join an IX and ask nicely for transit from other members. Some may even offer you free transit the moment you join.
This is basically what I suggested we do a few years ago if Apple added client-side content scanners.

Seems all need to here is obtain a finger print of a CSAM image then you can reverse engineer a non CSAM image to match that finger print. Distribute this image wide enough and you effectively render these algorithms useless.

Which is a shame because they could be used for good, but it seems kinda obvious this will expand out to scanning for terrorist materials. And again, while I might be in favour of this in theory I am frequently shocked by what fits this definition. In the EU if you promote the wrong ideas or say something "hateful" you can be arrested and sentenced 10+ years in prison.

I think what concerns me is that currently you really only put yourself at risk if you make your wrong think public, e.g tweet about your dislike of Islam on Twitter. These client-side scanners would now enable the authorities to not only go after those who say "racist" things online, but also those who view / save "racist" memes. If I were to guess at a motive, this would be it.

Legal note: I obviously don't agree with hate of any kind, but I do believe in the right to express views which may be considered hateful.

Edit: Fine with the downvotes – but curious what people are disagreeing with? Would you mind leaving a quick comment if you choose to downvote?
I dunno, I own nearly like a third or half of Sonos's product line, and have had numerous software and UI problems with them. Their support has never been very helpful and I just gave up. Giving you 30% off an expensive new product isn't really the same as just repairing it...
Lmfao What college did you attend?
I think the point is it becomes irrelevant how good of a contract hollywood actors get if hollywood is cut out of the picture entirely by smaller independents using AI.
It feels wrong putting secrets into git, but there are some aspects where this could be useful.
When otherwise smart people do seemingly dumb things, you have to ask if there is some rational explanation for the behavior. My take, having experienced everything you describe here, is that from upper management's position, each of these new shiny objects is a bet. Maybe it'll work out (networking, internet, cloud) or it'll go bust (push, blockchain, etc).

If it works out, the company gets to ride a new tech wave while avoiding obsolescence (see Yahoo, DEC, Sun, etc). If it doesn't pan out, the company writes off the investment and moves on to the next shiny thing.

From the leadership perspective, it actually makes sense to jump on the latest shiny thing. From the mid-level manager's perspective, it sucks to be the one who has to go make sense of it.
I'm glad you mentioned D and I literally paused while writing the above to consider if I should include it. Back when I was writing a lot of C++ (decades ago now) my greatest hope was that D would catch on. It is hard to say why it didn't and I think all of the hype on the C++ successor goes to Rust these days. Zig is probably the most likely candidate for a C replacement even though D has a subset termed as Better C.

It really is the case that there is an endless list of programming languages now that serve as inspiration for almost every use case. I mean, I didn't even mention Clojure or Julia or Lua ... the list of truly interesting language and approaches is almost endless.
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Wasn't that the same outcome of the blockchain hype? Crypto-bros ran of with the money and a few developers getting little or no funding plucked away on GitHub.

The main difference is that I see way fewer people defending the A.I. hype and people are generally much more critical and realistic about the application of LLMs.