skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flours like rye or whole wheat don't have a lot of gluten relative to white flour

I think you mean Bread Flour specifically, as opposed to the All Purpose Flour that most people associate with white.
Becoming a contractor was a sudden transition for me but it ended up becoming the right move. I have been working for myself now since 2018 and it's going very well.
I’m willing to grind if you present me with a real life problem you need solving. I’m not willing to run on a hamster wheel, it seems illogical to me.
That's the kind of fine print that would kill any popular support for LVT.

It's also a false dichotomy. We don't need LVT to solve housing. We don't even know if LVT would solve housing. On the other hand, we know exactly how to solve housing. People just don't want to.
Whether we know what "living" is or whether we solve the hard problem of consciousness is logically distinct from atheism (or theism, for that matter). Unless you think that our ignorance justifies theism, in which case you commit to a logical fallacy.
I assure you, they would if they could, but its illegal.
Don't forget one for control.
I can't find it (yet) on AA either.

Too bad.

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=10.1038%2Fs41589-023-0144...
What do you consider small? I feel like it’s just the luck of the draw if a company has decent management at all levels or not. Small startups ( I would say under 50 people ) rarely have a lot of process and hierarchy
Do you have a link where it happened once?
MBA Job Offers in Short Supply as Tech, Finance, Consulting Dial Back
This is a big part; some of these new/young companies are now traded on TSX! Many many others (100s I'm aware of) have taken outside money. They thought they were going to be huge but didn't calculate their SAM properly (at all?). Some of them are stuck "unable" to sell at a competitive price because of pressure from up-stream investors to show profit. Meanwhile, a number of smaller self-funded companies are still just chugging along - no investors; no huge growth; just a moderate margin w/no debit. What the VCs call (pejoratively) a "life-style business.
At a certain point you have to say enough is enough. The same for the cyber resilience act that spits in the face of millions of open source developers who collectively are the only reason governments have all their nice toys to play with.
If you are looking to the divine to describe every mystery then you belong with the religious folk.
Isn't your parent talking about the case of a shareholder suing Microsoft being case dismissed? Microsoft commiting tax fraud or not doesn't change the fact that a shareholder can't be upset that a company paid its legal taxes...
When it rains and the water literally comes up out of the limestone the state is sitting on you wonder why anyone would buy property there.
A bit of a tangent, but I followed the link at the bottom to https://stopchatcontrol.eu/ and while I want to take the site seriously and agree with the message, I can't with that silly usage of emojis (scroll down). Seems more like a joke website than a serious piece of advocacy it purports to be.

The original blog post is good though.
And then in a year or two linkrot happens and now the article exists as some useless thing.
> the author states that it's a moral duty of everyone to start encrypting their communications as a form of civil disobedience. It works when many (preferably most) people disobey.

I'd certainly support it. What he's calling for - it's similar to the dominant spirit in the US after the Edward Snowden revelations. It resulted in a lot of ethical and beneficial stuff happening in a relatively short amount of time.

Not just in tech, even news orgs lost much of their aversion to covering surveillance abuses. At least for a time.
The Venn diagram of the people who would recommend me and I would want to work with and the companies I would want to work for is very small at best.
Are we colleagues? :-)
I take issue with the phrasing. No one can force upon me their moral obligations. It’s my choice alone.
I disagree with this. My agent basically had to always be on-call to send me listings that we could go see and offer to place calls at odd hours so we get everything scheduled since houses move so fast now.

My agent basically picked up all of that admin for me and I never once questioned his commission. Buying a house is basically a part-time job for the buyer now and being able to respond instantly is so important.

The job has changed, just like all jobs have, but good agents get shit done because the market is so competitive. Real estate is a very high-turnover industry with little long-term stability for those that don’t absolutely kill it.
I’m honestly shocked by the number of non technical people “managing” software projects. If you can’t run the system on your machine, then how the heck do you even know if it’s done or not? Honestly, TDD ought to be a fundamental everyday skill requirement for managers.

If you want to clean house at your company to improve profitability and productivity, then just go around to every manager in charge of a software project and ask them to show you the code for the e2e test and run it. Anyone who can’t do that doesn’t belong in a leadership position. Manager implies leader implies knowing the fundamentals.
I would agree if in fact the insurance rates followed suit. In none of these stories is it clear that putting your house on stilts would waive the insurance increases.
Absolutely happens. It is more common than not, with anything controversial.
That might be good enough to get a hardware startup acquired, but not good enough to get major sales. Users want pytorch and negligible switching cost between chips.

Bigger problem for startups trying to muscle in on LLMs is that there isn't much room for improvement on existing solutions to do something radically different.
Superficial Brain Implant Could Have a Deep Impact
There's a world of difference between hooking a message loop and hooking a Win32 function:

You can hook a message loop using regular Win32 APIs, while hooking a Win32 API requires you to modify code in the process. Specifically you need to inject a trampoline function into the process memory and then overwrite the first two bytes of the Win32 function you'd like to hook with a jump instruction to your trampoline.

The former is a lot easier to allow while the latter is much more likely to open the flood gates for cheats.
Ah, I see. We’re supposed to engage these ideas in the “reality” in which interlocutors don’t have motivations, incentives, perspectives, personal histories, or attitudes toward topics that are revealed in their tone.

Which reality is that again?

In that reality, does this writing warrant more attention, or less?

Presumably we’re reading this to understand what Marc thinks, and to isolate the stated words from their context is naivety, not wisdom.

There are several “techno-optimist” (and adjacent) horses one can hitch their wagon to. My point is that everything about this screed — content, context, subtext, and omission — hints at this particular horse being pointed a bit askew.
Basically whatever they are, half meetings half forced vacation, I'd rather just have real vacation.
Typically Google resources go to TF before PyTorch, no?
I'm not sure how to relate that to the slashid article, which notes,

> In other words, the private key used to encrypt kSecAttrSynchronizable keys in the Secure Enclave is backed in iCloud. As such, when a new device needs to restore the keychain it can reconstruct the private key and thus decrypt the keypair needed to access all the private keys marked as kSecAttrSynchronizable, which include passkeys.

So presumably the iCloud sync pubkey is in fact available to the TEE to do the necessary encryption before exporting the synced credentials. Where that pubkey is stored only matters if you can trick the TEE into encrypting to some other pubkey, which presumably you can't--the implication of the docs seems to be that it pre-establishes which keys it will trust at iCloud enrollment time.

Is that not the case? I think if the TEE happily encrypts to any pubkey, there's a super obvious bypass here, so I doubt that's how the system works.
Plenty of communities have houses built on stilts for all kinds of reasons (10 foot snowdrifts is another reason)
> If the E.U. really made Chat Control, it would require a DRM that would restrict non-signed OS from running

I have seen this claim, but I don’t believe it is necessarily true. If EU legislation limits encryption on WhatsApp and other messengers offered on the Play Store, then that already implements the law for the vast majority of the population. Us nerds might be able to run whatever OSs we want, but we and even non-nerd sideloaders are nearly a rounding error.
> Why are you focusing on “Moroccan”, instead of on Maghrebi Arabic in general?

There are quite a few reasons.

- I am a Moroccan myself, I want an AI I can speak to the way I speak with friends. And I also want other people who can only speak my language to be able to make use of AI technology.

- Constraints wise, I'm working solo on this with no funding. Can't do it all.

- Maghrebi Arabic is not a language, rather a linguistic construct to try to simplify the complex web of languages spoken in North Africa that have arabic influences. On the ground, there is no such thing as Maghrebi Arabic.

- My personal expertise does not lie in these other languages. I do not have the necessary background to ensure the quality of the outcome, nor the relevance of the language used.

- While there might be some level of mutual intelligibility between Moroccan and Algerian for example, mostly when _speaking_, different languages in this group have very different rules, vocabularies, and most importantly different writing habits. Some of the simpler examples:

* Code switching between arabic and latin scripts, which follows different conventions in each country (region even). It's already tough to cover Moroccan.

* Another difference is reminiscent of the relationship between English and French. Many common words in French are rarely used in English or could mean something different entirely, and that's the same case here.

* Moroccan is significantly influenced by Tamazight and Spanish, which does not hold the same way for other north African countries.

Ultimately, keep in mind that NA is not a single cultural block. Not being exhaustive, but Morocco has some Andalusian components to its culture, Algeria has some Ottoman, Tunisia and Lybia were very close to Italy at some point, and it gets crazier when you zoom in closer.

> (IMO a problematic term, considering the country’s language diversity)

Is there a debate I am not familiar with? I am Moroccan. To whom is this a problematic term?
I don't think you can have a mortgage without insurance to at least cover the bank's portion. If you own the house with cash then possibly.
It probably depends on music genre, but Bandcamp hosts a ton of music that's not available anywhere else. Spotify is great for popular music, but a lot of small/niche artists have presence only on Bandcamp, both digital and physical. Pretty much all of my vaporwave/futurefunk/synthwave vinyl records are from Bandcamp.
You clearly didn’t read my argument. What you describe is exactly how it works in a state of nature, but in a state of nature there are no rules. You don’t have to obey anyone’s so-called “property rights.” You can just spear the people you don’t like. I personally don’t want to live (would probably die) that way, but if society is going to impose rules on us, it needs to offer something better than the state of nature. Right now it really doesn’t; it has 100 times the resources but offers only artificial scarcity and make-work to keep the wagecucks in line.
Most users are workers who haven't figured out they aren't capitalists yet.
I mostly agree with what you're writing, but:

> We really need some self hosted option that is fully cross platform.

It needs to be supported by the big players too. A self-hosted option isn't enough.

A self-hosted, cross-platform and Open Source provider that's usable with existing services is a requirement for people who are comfortable with technology and who are familiar with the ecosystem to come on board. People like me need that. But if I'm going to advocate that ordinary people use passkeys, then it's not good enough that there would theoretically exist a provider that wouldn't lock them down.

As long as the default option that their OS is telling them to use is locked down and can't import or export, then the only advice I'm going to give them is "don't use passkeys." I'm not going to deal with a situation where they move phones and I have to tell them "oh, you would have been able to sync your passkeys across ecosystems easily, but you chose the wrong ecosystem to go with, so now you can't."

Inconsistent implementations and inconsistent providers will kill passkeys as a general tool.
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It's already the case for H1Bs.
I think it's a week old even. Author originally posted it on his blog https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/10/11/how-i-made-a-heap-ove...
But that is how we talk about living things.

A man is alive, has a fatal heart attack, then he is not alive.

I don't think anyone would argue he was never alive, or is still alive after having gone cold.

Studying this transition from life to non-life, or vice versa should be most informative in distinguishing the two states.
With professionals it's their peers. Unfortunately that doesn't really help unless you're in the "club". In any community the other doctors all know who are the best surgeons and who are the butchers. But they won't publicly badmouth a peer or even privately tell you unless they really trust you.
'trivial' isn't a mathematical concept. If no one has shown why this problem is trivial, it isn't trivial.
I mean, the tape being infinite is part of the definition of what a Turing machine is.
It would be interesting to hear from an expert, I would think it would cause the pool to be more volatile, but not necessarily more expensive?
My longer term dream has always been to be self-employed but the US makes that difficult. Health insurance for my family alone is a dream killer.
On the contrary I know many successful “lifestyle” business owners whose primary motivation for self employment was to remove managers from their lives.

Obsession with solving some problem experienced by many is a very specific mindset that sets tech startups on the direction of hockey stick growth.
The big deal here is that it allows for relevance. Skilled coders don't want to waste time with exercises. They come up with useful tools and side projects and contribute to open source. Leetcode is a distraction because it is relevant only as an exercise, not as something truly useful. And that is the biggest test of a coder. Not that they can code something, but that they can apply the ability to code to real problems and address something relevant. Code that really matters has traction. Sometimes it is a very simple thing that makes a tool or application or library truly useful, and the skill to see that and apply such knowledge goes far above some leetcode exercise that has no real application and serves only for points in some game.
Before you get to "being year round underwater" you'll face phases of "elevated flooding risk" and "frequent flooding", and both of the latter two are already of concern to insurers.
If there are any attractants inside, there are going to be a lot of false negatives.
Depends on when they bought of course. It sounds like with Florida's wild real estate ride, even having bought a few years ago might mean they're not rich or house poor.
Dualism does not necessarily entail theism or atheism. David Chalmers is an atheist [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p0BjA8mvU4
It's more consistent with observations than the inefficient-advertisers hypothesis, which requires extra excuses to make it work, such as the one presented here: It doesn't work but ill-informed executives want it anyway.

We would expect market forces to rout out advertising companies that need to charge extra to run a useless surveillance network that doesn't actually increase conversion rates.
Very easy for certain types of people. Very difficult for others.
Also, using scripting languages and misusing browser engines unironically yet expecting performance...
They take a photo.
People are optimizing for what the businesses value. If you make these titles attractive, why wouldn't you expect people to optimize for them? It's not the people's fault; it's the company leadership. Couple that with companies that don't care about the employees, of course, titles will matter. Say what you want, but someone with only a history of Junior Engineer on their CV will get looked at differently when they have to find a new job.
Even better, leverage your network. LinkedIn is a good mine for getting soft introductions. One of the biggest challenges is getting FaceTime with a hiring manager. if there’s a job you want, find someone who knows someone at that business and get 20 minutes with them.

Once you have an internal advocate the entire process is much smoother.
The interview Dawkins had with the Indian metaphysician (I forgot the name) made me realize how blinded Dawkins is by his material-reductionist belief system. Dawkins appeared to have no idea what the man was talking about because his belief system could not compute the meaning of what the man was trying to explain to him. Sapolsky's Harvard lectures on human biology in particular the fractal nature of the visual cortex changed how I think and understand, what stands out most from those lectures are of the problems reducing a complex system..
>and I assure they would not be using a random charging station

Have you read the thread? Plenty of people are saying this risk is overblown and not to worry. The top 3 comments all express this sentiment.

>and if you gain input you can dismiss the popup instantly in your exploit.

Do you think using a mouse on an unlocked phone would go unnoticed? There's also a fair amount of disagreement over whether a mouse will work without input.

We've had security researchers notice USB device attacks on computers, the same sort of attack except it will likely only hit one person. This kind of large scale attack where thousands have the chance to notice would be observed.
What I’ve seen work is a two income family where one is self employed and the other works a “boring, stable” job with health insurance. YMMV, as always healthcare and insurance in the US is a load of crap
Agreed. These aren't handed out via networking. You may not even realize that a higher tier of salary exists if you don't start looking for it.
> President Biden appeared to advance the story in a meeting with Jewish community leaders. “I have been doing this a long time, I never really thought that I would see … have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children,” he said.

> An administration official later clarified Biden’s remarks, saying that Biden was referring to public statements from officials and media reports and had not actually seen the photos.

That's funny retarded statement.

This is the classic misinformation and lie from a US president. Does anyone remember if Bush administration (anyone related to white house) ever admitted that the WMD in Iraq was a lie?
I don't understand why AWS events have such terrible scheduling tools. I attended one in NYC and all I wanted was a calendar of all events so I could see what was going on when. Seems like such a simple request, but it's not offered. What benefit does the complexity of the existing system give to Amazon?
I don't know about Florida specifically but IIRC from a recent podcast I was listening to, the biggest problem in the US is insurance companies have to follow state law and often state law limits the amount insurance companies can raise prices annually. The insurance company can pull out so often thats what happens, they are not allowed to raise rates to match the risk so then they pull out, the state is then pressured to try and provide a state insurance pool which is never as good as the commercial alternative. Effectively subsidizing the insurance and making people who live in these high risk areas happy for the short term.

I realize Florida does have actual issues with hurricanes and projected flooding but I think the above is important to call out too. Seems to be impacting insurance across the US.
I think a lot could be fixed with functions that don't access global state, but get that state as an additional parameter. E.g. I would really like `snprintf_l()`/`fprintf_l()` to be supported by glibc. It is supported by FreeBSD, macOS (Darwin), and even Windows (with a `_` prefix for some reason)! Not by GNU libc.
> If we do that you'll have two social classes. You'll have the price fixed low income housing that looks like it belongs in a Command & Conquer game

It does not have to be this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DBKoWbtjE
> It’s economically viable only in the narrow sense that we don’t anticipate the true longterm costs of energy spent.

Why would it be less economically viable with scale? As Bitcoin increases in value, the hashrate and energy usage will increase. If it doesn't, the hashrate and energy usage will stagnate or decrease.

If you think the energy usage is "way out of scale" for the problem it solves, I think you may be underestimating the challenges of developing a decentralized monetary system and the impact of money on society itself.
I don't know how to search the academic literature to find it. I'm not even sure it is online to link. I just know it is done.
What I understand the author to be saying is that the SE will unwrap locally stored synced credentials and then encrypt them to the previously-established iCloud sync key.

It doesn't really matter if the storage of the actual wrapped keys is in the secure element or on disk, of course--what matters is if the SE exports unencrypted credentials, or if it fails to validate the identity of the key to which it encrypts credentials before exporting.

It doesn't seem from that description like it does either, but it's a bit unclear to me from the docs. Do you know?
The official re:invent app with session tracker is really atrocious. I already decided to skip re:invent this year because the content just wasn't worth the time/effort/expense but this makes me feel even better about my decision.
Wouldn't that effectively punish the owner for improving the property?

A tax purely on the land has the same justification as a windfall tax. The value goes up or down independently of any action of the owner. i.e. They didn't do anything to deserve the increase in their wealth. The value comes from what the land is surrounded by.