skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replaced an M1 Pro with an M2 Air and have had nothing but improvements in my daily computing. Juggling Xcode, terminal tools, web browsers, Slack, Discord, music/podcasts, video streaming, video CALLS, all the background sync, email, VS Code, occasionally photoshop for flavor. It just doesn't slow down, at all, at any point.

The M series SOCs are just fucking absurd. In every space besides gaming and graphics, they utterly lap PC's. I don't even remember the last time my Macbook wasn't charged enough to use, and I use it away from my desk quite a lot. Moving from my office PC to a Macbook has felt like being flung 6 years into the future.
A small level of friction can reduce a lot of issues though. Without being able to tell that a package has been delivered they have to break into or open random boxes and hope there's a package inside increasing the chances they're caught and wasting their time. It's the same kind of thing proof of work anti spam measures can work under, it adds a tiny friction to legitimate users but illegitimate users have to do tons of work to send their spam or in this case open a lot of boxes.
Boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward
The problem is Microsoft using its servers as the middle man, without fair warning. Not what you mentioned.
The majority seems to like one-drive. In theory having everything in one place sounds great. Few people think long term. Customer value trumps customer value if you ask me. IT departments and clueless users love MSFT and that will never change. Embrace it.
They could get me to shut up for probably 4 years if they cemented a deal to produce the next Nintendo console with Nintendo in a way Nintendo would be fully onboard with delivering. Think steam deck or mac mini level of hardware/cost.
Do you think non aircraft engineers who fly in airplanes would tend to have their confidence increased, or decreased, if they discovered their airline had hired mechanics without checking their qualifications?
Firstly, no one (including myself) is really going to be able to help you here without actually seeing how you and the team work. That said, I'll tell you what I think given what you're written here but please take it all with a grain of salt.

> Fast forward 2 months. They are pushing back hard on any new proposals to adopt CI, tests, code reviews, issue tracking, you name it.

> I've reached my breaking point.

> I proposed to fire/transfer some of them.

2 months is nothing, and that's a lot of changes for a team that's used to doing things their own way. I'm not saying you're wrong to suggest any of those changes but a leader can't expect to lead purely on their superior knowledge and experience, they also have to be able to win the hearts and minds of those they're leading.

I guess the question I would ask here is why should they trust you? You've told us why you don't think very highly of them, but why should they think highly of you?

Did you expect to come in all guns blazing telling them they're doing practically everything wrong and that they're the problem and for them to approve of you? Do you think it's surprising given what you've said here that they might be a bit suspicious of you and not want to do anything you say?

Again, I don't know the situation, but reading what you've written it sounds like you need to take a step back and get to know the team before you decide they're putting the company at "huge risk" in your first two months on the job.

My suggestion – pause all of the changes you've suggested so far and arrange something fun to get to know the team (during work hours) – maybe go to the pub for an afternoon or order pizza or something. Take that time to ask them what their problems are and try to help them the best you can with those problems for a few weeks.

When you feel you have some respect from them try to propose a single change. Make your best case for it. Give them time to think about it and offer their thoughts. If they have concerns, make them feel like you appreciate their feedback and ask them for suggestions. If they provide useful suggestions give them credit for it.

I think your problem here is that you haven't won the hearts of your team and it sounds like you're not involving them in any of the decision making. If you want to make significant changes without challenge you need trust, and you clearly don't have that.

That said, if you want to do this without winning their trust, then yeah, you'll probably need to fire some or all of the team and build a new one. If the team is truly as bad and as unreasonable as you suggest that may not be the worst idea. But again, I don't know without knowing you or the team. But just reading this I see some red flags in regards to your leadership style.

Sorry for being a bit critical, I'm just trying to be as honest as possible given what you said here. Either way it sounds like you're in a difficult position and you need to put your own well being first. You've clearly taken a lot on and sometimes it's just not worth it, especially if you don't have the power you need to make some of the decisions that you might need to make.
> … who produce some thing valuable for the community.

I think you are cleaning up his values. He clearly seems to be pointing to a few people who produce novel ideas and creations as opposed to the mass of people who never create much of value globally out of their lives.

And actually, this statement used to be uncontroversial. Social media and the death of journalism means that our best thinkers no longer have much of a platform. It may be easy to forget and unpopular to remember, but there are some exceptional and brilliant people out there.
I would recommend Stanislaw Lem. He is Polish and Jewish. Solaris is great start. There has been two movie adaptions of his book, Soviet and Hollywood, and both fail to express the main point of the book that is possible incomprehensible strangeness of alien intelligence. I would compare his book to Peter Watts Blindsight in this regard.
would the increased global movement over the past couple of decades have happened without increased global technical ability? Not sure.
Do you use web based clients to access third party accounts?
How does it feel to be rich? :)
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1792530/Satoshi-Nakamoto-There-...

Indeed Satoshi design would've been like that, eventually we got Chainlink to 'to know the real world value of things.'and Ampleforth used that in the design to have perfect elastic supply
> I’m in the market for a new Macbook. Should I get the M2 instead of the M3?

Yes, especially if you were considering a low-end M3 model. Also consider a MacBook Air, which are great.
I love how to vote or rail against socialism is, in some sense, to say "Nah, Einstein don't know shit, surely I'm smarter than that man." Also don't call me "Surely"

Also, why do the Nazis have "Socialist" in their moniker if they were fascist? Can a society/political movement be socialist and fascist simultaneously?
Comparison: the Mozilla website is controlled by Mozilla and Firefox users can't edit or copy www.mozilla.org. Therefore Mozilla Firefox is closed source!

The Snap store is Ubuntu proprietary, yes. But that doesn't matter.

You don't need to use it. You can build and sign your own snaps, distribute them yourself, use Snap without ever going near the store. Snaps can be downloaded from any source, over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, CIFS, whatever you want: unlike Flatpaks, they are just ordinary files. No special protocol or mechanism needed.

The snap format is FOSS (and used by almost all Linux distros for install media), the tools to create it are FOSS, the tools to run it are FOSS, and there are no special tools needed or recommended or supplied to distribute snaps.

Which is what the article is about. I know because I wrote it.
Similar to the shields in Dune, then.
> and viola

Nice to see you are a musical aficionado too. More seriously, how does this compare to other type checking alternatives for Elixir/BEAM were I to start a new project, including Gleam and Witchcraft (which at least seems to be unmaintained for now)?
Macleod’s Star Fraction is still unsurpassed for me in political scifi. It’s the kind of novel that can only be written by someone born in Europe, with the lived experience of wars being reflections of reflections of reflections of old conflicts, warped and folded and turned inside out. It’s a wild read.
That's not true anymore. There was a shift to Beken Chips a year or two ago so a lot of your Amazon WiFi iot stuff uses that now (Tuya and Tasmota). Check out OpenBeken. I can't find much info on it but thinking it's cheaper than esp's probably more similar to esp8266 than esp32. Espressif chips are much more secure nowadays compared to the esp8266 days.
I was disillusioned almost a decade ago and switched to LibreOffice back then itself. The only caveat is that the Microsoft's DOCX format isn't fully compatible with open ODT, so documents saved with one word processor may have slight formatting issues in another but I've stopped caring about it now and try to push everyone in my circle to adopt LibreOffice only. My hunch is that in about a decade or so, almost everyone will.
They have time sweet river surfing spots too. ;)
Breaking changes are allowed, not required.
Erm, no, I don't think so. Can you give a source for that claim?

Medieval wars were in general shorter, more regional, used much smaller forces and affected the civilian population less than in later ages. Of course it is very difficult to give any numbers, but various infection diseases, childbirth and infant death were major causes of death. (E.g. women life expectancy overtook that of men only in the 19th century.) Also at least in the 13th and 14th century in Europe main reasons for a significant temporary population decline - during a time of general population growth - were black death and hunger, the latter being partially caused by limitations to agriculture technology and available land.
They'd be pretty easy to secure on a wood porch and only require minor power tools on a concrete porch to bolt down. Even if you only chained or cabled it to the railing that'd do a lot. Don't forget thieves won't know until they move the thing if there's even a package to steal.
AIUI snap confinement is primarily done by AppArmor, which is not a Canonical project.

Ask them.
I don't think memory was the main issue. It sounds like there was some software installed that was using up the CPU -- some background utility run amok.

I've got an 8 GB M1 MBA and run Chrome and an IDE effortlessly, even when connected to a 4K monitor, and with tons of tabs open.

I'm not saying 8 GB is enough for everybody, but it's perfectly fine for an IDE and web browser. I'm pretty sure your issue was something else.
Meta Now Charges $200 Annually for Privacy – A High Cost for User Data Security
By just up the road you mean 20 miles? Of open desert?

I-15 is high traffic, but once you get off it, you’re in the middle of nowhere for most of its length. Like ‘if you get out of your car and stop walking, no one will find your body for decades’ kind of middle of nowhere. Have you driven I15?

That it is regulated to prevent building definitely helps preserve that - but doesn’t change that nature?

Not that anyone would likely be building in those alkali lake beds anyway.
Nobody wants to repeat back 512 character encryption keys over the phone these days
Its seems more like its a battle between "Humanity" and "Inhumanity" and inhumanity is handing all our non-elite asses to us
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212453
Depends on the code and whether you are doing a release or debug build. I work on a very large rust project (~1m LoC) with a lot of dependencies. We've split it into multiple crates and the compile times don't really frustrate my dev workflow (incremental compilation works well and debug builds are pretty fast anyway). But building in our CI pipeline where we do a fully optimized build (single codegen unit, LTO enabled) it takes a while (~30m) which is annoying when you are waiting for a hotfix to be ready. It's also incredibly resource intensive (mainly linking with LTO enabled) so we've been the bane of our platform teams existence since we need something like 50GB of memory in our build container to do a full release build :)
"Mistral 7B is a transformer model designed for fast inference and handling longer sequences. It achieves this by utilizing grouped-query attention and sliding-window attention."
I remember being blown away by Braid. It makes you feel very not-smart, and then very smart, over and over. Takes a great creative talent to do that, and to pull together all the graphics and sound as well.
> Google Search is one of the Great Inventions in human history

I don't know about that...
The new Outlook is really bad. The old one it has a setting to hide images of emails and the new Outlook I can't find it, they probably hidden it somewhere you can't find it. The only option is to use their service to download the image and the image is shown.
> Will replacement parts be available

> Yes, we will be working with iFixit again to provide replacement parts and repair guides for Steam Deck OLED.

Excellent news.
You're right it's totally different when Google does the same thing with Gmail.
Point being the jump from intel to M1 was much bigger than the jump from M1 to M3.
To be fair Apple usually follow specs to a fault- the problem they have when tying into non-Apple ecosystems is when de facto standards others follow are widespread- they often don’t implement/test those and don’t consider it their problem when encountered…
> Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting expectations," because the expectations for the first 1-2 months are for you to just learn the stack and get to know the team.

Just a small addition, starting from the beginning of 2023, all new hires get their first rating as OI (aka outstanding impact aka one rating higher than the target "meeting expectations"/"significant impact").
Wow I disagree with almost every line you wrote.

It's obvious there wasn't just one outage.

If they'd rather quit than write some tests or have their code reviewed then that's a win for the company.

I'm sure plenty of engineers will take their place.

Also, notice how annoying this writing style is?

Where I put one sentence on each line?

This isn't LinkedIn.

And honestly, it's kind of ruined that platform, too.
I wonder why they used tap water instead of seawater
> hyping the current grifter's fantasy of large language models as "artificial intelligence".

Finally somebody says something sensible about that crap instead of mindlessly echoing the hype.
Is this new Outlook part of that new age Metro Interface or Windows Store apps? That's one of the first things I recommend everyone to get rid of as part of the windows de-bloat process.
Huge tank-like vehicles, with arrow slits for the crew and trebuchets for "main guns", would look really cool...
>In early 2022 we announced the beginning of our migration to using diskless infrastructure with our bootloader known as “stboot”.

>We recently announced the completion of our migration to remove all traces of disks in use on our VPN infrastructure.

Is this more clear?
Unfortunately, that's kind of the case. SwiftUI on Mac looks like ass

https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1557357661171204098

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/SystemSettings.html
Stross has also written many books firmly in the Sci-fi category without the Lovecraft. I particularly enjoyed Glasshouse, and his other works explore the idea of singularity, far future economy, and also what a non-singular future might look like.

A lot of blame seems to be put on the Americans, but when I think of Scifi authors, I'm often thinking of Douglas Adams, Iain M Banks, Alistair Reynolds, Stross himself, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Richard K Morgan. The Brits have a lot to answer for too!
New Outlook on Mac is terrible - it lacks basic critical functionality such as tabular view (1 line per message) with column sorting by: From, To, Date received, Subject etc.
Fortunately old Outlook is still available - I have to switch back after every update.
Hi there! Original commenter .

> So who is to say that the people complaining in the original post were using Turnstile or not?

I'm sorry if that wasn't clear, but they were all using Turnstile (either in a Cloudflare Challenge or implemented in Turnstile individually). By the time of the original post, there was no difference between the two.

> I didn't really see anywhere in the post where it discussed why they were getting so many false positives, and blocking real humans

If you take a look at the section on what we learned in the beta, we mention the two biggest sources of false positives we received during the beta period are 1) incorrect system time and 2) privacy settings that restricted the execution of third party scripts entirely. In both case, there wasn't an easy "just fix it" option, but we surface the issue obviously in the managed challenge and via a Turnstile error callback, which should allow users to see clearly what the problem is.

We've also finished rolling out (update on the blog article, which states this was in progress) our challenge feedback reports, so we can better track when groups of users are impacted in ways where they can't render the challenge in the first place. This was an area where we had difficulties understanding the scope of a problem previously, because our telemetry relies on the widget to load in the first place.

We'll continue to use the new data we're gathering to continue making reliability improvements when we find issues. Ensuring we can accurately identify human users is fundamental to the success of Turnstile as a product, so this will always be a high priority for us.
I'm afraid of this because I am an abject nerd
Many people do exactly this and it was one of the original touted features of Gmail and it's unified inbox.
This is a really insightful article. Thank you for sharing it. it reminds me there is still so much for to be done in the FOSS community and how grateful we are to have it. Thank you!
Or having a Kiroshi implant.
> Amazing how the countries without all those amenities ever made it out alive... you're conflating dependence on those technologies with necessity of those technologies

Can you say where in this sentence I said that they were necessary for existence?

> Imagine a pandemic without the comms and tech invented in the last 15 years.
DDoS attack on ChatGPT sparks concerns over coding, productivity disruptions
Fraud website (subscription). What can I do?
I thought I would never fall into such a trap, but it happened:

I wanted to evaluate software for 360 view software to create some virtual tours for apartments.

I registered myself at openhouse.app ( https://openhaus.app/ ) with an trial subscription. I had to deposit my credit card, after 30 days, they wil turn the trial subscription into a paid one.

After 30 days they charged me ( 52$ ). Another 30 days they charged me again.
Since weeks, I have been trying now to cancel my subscription at openhaus.app . But i cannot, there is no possibility to do so. I tried to contact the openhaus.app geam ( mail, phone, insta ) without success.

I believe openhaus.app is a scam. There is nobody i ever reached. So i contact Stripe, Which is the paymente provider they use, to ask if they can stop my subscription but they cant.

I also report the site as scam at google.

I have already contacted my lawyer.

My question: do everyone knows how to handle situation like this, what can i do? Thank you!
mRNA vaccines is the only one that really "pops" for me. The rest are just iterations on what we've already had, but more efficient/less costly/etc. Nothing really revolutionary, only the same old but better.

In that vein, CRISPR, and how it enables individuals to pursue genetic modification and xenobiology/botany, is one that's being utilized right now to make a lot of very cool stuff (one that comes to mind is the S. Mutans strain that doesn't produce lactic acid). But it's still a very involved and very chaotic process that doesn't allow innovations to rocket off.
About old French science fiction, let's not forget Jules Verne.
Prolific ransomware crook spills the beans on several operations
If you are already aiming to get fired, why would you do that?

Like, doing the fun parts of the job, sure.

But to deliberately do only the boring, soul-destroying parts seems like it’s own special circle of hell.
Most of the major problems would be solved by taking their security and drivers away and make them park a few blocks away from the government buildings.

If you did nothing wrong to "the people", you have nothing to fear.

The problem is, that when talking about advance technology plus appealing to emotions ("think of the children!"), average joe is pretty stupid too, and half of population is even stupider than that.
He mentions Ian M Banks, who was not from the US
No yelling, clickbait or scandals, it's actually great.
> interesting work on the forefront of technology

What sort of interesting work is not possible in Sweden? I've worked in many tech hubs and am now in Stockholm; Oxford, London, Palo Alto, etc, and haven't noticed anything
Hugo and Nebula awards are american centrics. Your best bet is to go to the pages of the national SF awards (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_science_fiction#Awa...) then look for an english translation of the books
> It's similar in that people are complaining without doing anything about it...

Yeah, after being told that plenty of people were doing something about systemd, that's what you take from it?

I guess being uninformed isn't an option. You seem to have some emotional attachment into not looking at what happened there.

That said, yes, everybody that wants to do something about X11 is doing that by improving wayland. It's a completely different situation.
By no means an expert, but I think apart from the hype, general reception of Dolby Atmos or (DTS:X spatial audio) was luke warm at best. Lossless audio has had more interest recently.

And of course, the royalties stuff does get in the way of adoption. Expect browsers to pick up new CODECs like IAMF soon, then a bunch of big platforms will support it. Then maybe a phone here and there, and finally TV sets, audio systems etc. Think: years.
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38203795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189790
For GMail people set that up deliberately Outlook pretends to be a desktop app.
Yes, it comes from Latin arcus, which was used for a bow or for any other object having the form of an arc of circle.
Yes it was a racial socialism as opposed to class socialism.
Ah yes, it's true that Olkiluot-3's construction started first, although Taishan (in China) finished first.
Once they have everything running in RAM, they can have racks of servers that contain no persistent storage whatsoever, and are therefore subpoena-proof.

> On April 18 [2023] at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.

> In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...