skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some degree you see this pattern repeated over and over anytime you have an organization gain any sort of longevity.

A culture develops to create a power structure that favors those who have devoted a large portion of their personal identity to the success of the organization. This culture serves as a moat against anyone who would integrate themselves within the organization and attempt drastic changes that would disrupt the existing power balance or pose an existential threat to the organization.

As time passes, more layers get added in response to various perceived attempts to subvert the organization until a critical mass is reached in which the organization suffers from a brain drain (via retirement, loss of interest, etc.) with the barriers too high and rewards too meager for new(er) qualified individuals to consider filling the void. The organization then continues forward in a zombie-like state until it either fails or becomes irrelevant.
QR’s are an add-on for marketing or messaging vs our system which was already printed on the box! But it’s cool to see people scanning and the Cat now sits in the Computer History Museum… So it is cool to see it in the same section as my first computer - the Osborne 01. With Digital Convergence, the Cat’s parent company, we raised $205M from strategic investors and gave 300 dreamers and do’ers jobs and an amazing outlook for their future lives even when it went bust in 2001 like so many startups with “loose” revenue models did. Never have I felt regret from this, plus a lot of OG tech founders give us street cred for tying barcodes to the Internet before people thought of it. It did teach me what types of people that you DON’T want to work with.

The biggest project that my friends and I did after this was moving a Boeing 747 over 500 miles through two states from the Mojave boneyard to Burning Man. That was a true loving team who could do anything. Our business model was smiles per hour. YouTube has great videos on that project.
996.icu comes to mind
Did you or do you work for Big Tech? Not asking to doxx, but to surface potential bias. I can guess from your comment history, but attempting to assume most charitable interpretation and intent.

I donate to the EFF because they pay Cory, and Cory attempts to contribute towards keeping Big Tech at bay. Let's not argue about Big Tech intent here; they would conquer the world if they could. The evidence around this thesis is...robust.

(recent example of Microsoft blocking Firefox from FIDO2 auth in a very public way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502340)
Oddly, though, you never see ORD used for Chicago. It means the airport, and only the airport.

And somewhat the same with LA. LA is the city, LAX is the airport. You don't really see LAX used for the city.
And text-to-speech. Which is already a standard: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

The web is in a hilarious state where it's harder to style an option in a drop down than it is to generate speech from some text
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LLMs might hit a wall. Any technology could hit a wall. ChatGPT could be the next Segway. But, like the Segway, LLMs are useful now. I think the impact of "stuff like ChatGPT" on software engineering will equal the impact of the compiler in that eventually no one will consider writing software without a "stuff like ChatGPT" in the tool chain, in the same way that no one works without a compiler now. LLMs are useful now and they've only existed for a few years.

But that's just my opinion and no one knows the future. If you read papers on arxiv.org, progress is being made. Papers are being written, low-hanging fruit consumed. So we're going to try because PhDs are there for the taking on the academic side, and generational wealth is there for the taking on the business side.

E. F. Codd invented the relational database and won the Turing Award. Larry Ellison founded Oracle to sell relational databases and that worked out well for him, too.

There's plenty of motivation to go around.
Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s
Carry on. I for one laughed at the obviousness of the iceberg jumping out. We definitely should be encouraging more careful reading than hinting and reading everything as if they are words only. Your comment is about as obvious as it gets. Unless... the icebergs are alive. But then we have a bigger problem. Global warming is their revenge!
Look for material condensed on the inside of the jar.
It's surprisingly hard to steer tech literate users off this cancer. They complain and complain, yet refuse to go back to FF for all sorts of nonsensical reasons which clearly boil down to "I don't want to".

Well, then stick with watching ads and don't ever cry on my shoulder again. I don't care.
Unless they out and out gave that as the reason they didn't hire her, it's unlikely they'll be able to prove it. They're basically hoping this doesn't get tossed out the door and they'll get lucky with discovery. I wouldn't be surprised if she has misrepresented the case to the NLRB in order to get them to run with it, as I don't see why they would pick this battle otherwise.

On a broader note, it seems pretty plain that any outcome here won't be desirable. If the claim is provably true, and they are forced to hire her, they'll find a way to remove her like Apple did. Likely through bad performance reviews and a PIP. In any case, coming across as a sue happy crusader is a good way to get future applications elsewhere sorted right to the trash.

Edit: clarity
> I'm surprised that you seem to be considering that, maybe, like a programmer just put this in there without being told to. For fun? Just out of their own individual motivation to secretly help the company's profits?

Considering this isn't a some random webshit SaaS, but a piece of critical national infrastructure, such a rogue programmer would - in my books - be committing treason.

(Keep in mind that functioning rail system is of military importance, and there's a literal war being fought just over our eastern border.)
A couple months after I started studying software engineering in 2017 I made a facial recognition desktop app that was just a few open source projects bundled together. It would just write the name and age of the person that was standing in front of the camera if it recognized the person. It was very unimpressive, but what got one of my professors attention was that I managed to scrape the college intranet web app for pictures(with names, surnames and year of birth) of pretty much everyone who ever attended or is attending the college(including all the professors).
I was inspired after watching "The social network" movie where mark scrapes the yearbooks for pictures of students.

When it was finished I showed it to a few colleagues, one of which told the professor. I showed it to him and he got me a interview with a friend of his who was looking for an employee. We went for a coffee and he offered me the job right away which i took. A few weeks later i quit college, and I'm still mostly working for the company that gave me that first job, but I have my own company now.
Very much on-brand for Google, the company that wanted to bring us DRM for web browsers, in the form of Web Environment Integrity, brought us DRM for web video in the form of Widevine, and wants to get rid of working adblockers with Manifest V3.
What does Firefox’s architecture have to do with this conversation?
Is there music that goes along with these lyrics?
called a "parasitic traceroute"
Yeah with Lemmy it's pretty extreme. But to be fair, Lemmy is the only fediverse software I run in docker, Mastodon and PeerTube work easy enough without. But Lemmy being written in a compiled language makes it more difficult to get everything installed and set up to compile it. Once it's done it's very lightweight in comparison to especially Mastodon, which is nice.
Thanks! Glad Openlayer is working well for you :)
There's something otherworldy to me about the psychology of a violent criminal. To do violent crime is to make a lot of people very angry, and yet the majority of violent criminals seem not to run very far away as soon as they've committed a violent crime.
Former researcher alleges Harvard forced her out to preserve Facebook donations
Apple announced that they will support RCS. Presumably they will not charge Android users for sending RCS messages to iPhone users right?
The UI absolutely has to change to accommodate new functionality. New functionality means more “buttons and switches” to contend with.

For example, iMessage didn’t used to have any app integration to insert things. It used to be pictures/videos and text. Now it has the ability to insert a whole bunch of things and from a variety of first and third party apps. It can handle things like payments and location sharing. There has to be some kind of UI to handle that, and arguably there’s no way it can be “as clean” as an older version of the OS that simply didn’t have that functionality.

Another example: AirPlay 2 allows you to cast to multiple speakers at the same time and adjust volumes individually. You can also send audio from one app to one speaker and a different app to a different speaker and still play audio on the phone itself. So, now the AirPlay interface has radio buttons and more volume sliders, and it has a way to change which device’s audio you are controlling, and it has to fit and make sense somehow.

When the iPhone started there was just one volume bar for everything, so of course that UI was more intuitive - but it was also far less capable.
Well, there's also risk. I can remortgage my home and get money now, with the promise of paying it back later. But I might not pay it back if I lose my job.
> This sounds like it's approaching some sort of model mysticism. Models don't make forecasts, humans do.

By forecasts I only mean output of a model, I've been wrapped up in time series methods where that's the usual term for model outputs. Assigning confidence to the conclusions drawn by an analyst using some model as a tool is a different task that may or may not roll up formal model output uncertainties and usually involves a lot of subjectivity. This is an important thing too, but is downstream.

Uncertainty is inherently tied to a specific model, since it characterizes how the model propagates uncertainty of inputs and its own fit/structure/assumptions onto its outputs. If you aren't building uncertainties contingent on the characteristics of a specific model then it isn't an uncertainty. But there's no mysticism about models possibly being unintuitive, most of the popular model forms nowadays are mystery black boxes. Some function fit to a specific dataset until it finds a local minimum in a loss function that happens to do a good job (simplifying). There's plenty of work that shows ML models often exploit features and correlations that are highly unintuitive to a human or are just plain spurious.
This downloads from GitHub and ’executes’ specific code points in what looks like a proprietary Apple binary, ‘IMDAppleServices’. Where was that binary sourced? Could you provide more context for what is performed at the hard-coded call-in addresses in your code? Does this relate to how you’re presenting a unique device identifier to the network? Do all clients share one identifier, or is it generated per Apple ID? Have any Apple IDs been locked out of iMessage during your development and testing?
It's a little irrelevant what evolution "prefers." We have multiple examples of what has been called "dangerous evolutionary baggage": behaviors that were sensible in the past but in the present, rapidly-changing world actually hinder optimal outcomes for people. Two examples are ingroup-outgroup bias in a densely-connected world where the decisions of someone halfway around the planet can impact your day and scarcity / hoarding behaviors in a world with more than enough stuff in several categories to satisfy every human being more than they could possibly ever consume.
> Spent literal hours on it collecting citations and what have you. Within a couple hours the page was deleted

> No chance to explain. No chance to reword. Just gone completely

I've had the same experience. It requires too little effort to dump other people's contributions. I don't understand the super users' motivations in cases like this.
My main complain this season is that driver seat warming/steering wheel warming can not be controlled from a physical button or via API/app (today it was -15°C here). In cold weather, the rapid charging speed could be better, I heard that this has improved on newer models that also have larger battery. Real range is around 300km when it is below freezing and 480km during summer. https://www.ioniqforum.com/ Is good place to get feedback from other users.

As this is HN, then I also have to mention that Hyundai API (bluelink) has limits on how many queries you can do in a 24h rolling window. 20 or 50 queries, depending on the type…
CNN just started blocking visitors using ad block extensions. It’s made me stop going there.

Regardless of what you think of a particular news organization, I think this is a sign of things to come. (See YouTube’s experiment with warning users using ad blockers).

This will probably just make me use various sites a lot less.

Which, in all honesty, is probably good for my overall mental health.
I hope you are right. I'm maybe too cynical, thinking something along the tune of:

"If only more of OUR judges were in place, you wouldn't see such corruption, dear people."
Video loaded perfectly and quicker than YouTube!
> Does the customer have some app on it listening to the environment and using some kind of voice identification to figure out who's there.

This is no different from "So-and-so joined the group, but is secretly an FBI informer!" sort of problems, in practice. It's fairly low on my list of things to be concerned about, but as offline groups grow and are then, of course, talked about by a compliant media as "Your neighbor's firepit nights could be plotting terrorist activities because they don't have cell phones!" when prompted, it's a thing to be aware of.

Though you don't need a strip search. A decent NLJD (non-linear junction detector) or thermal imager should do it if you cared.

I'm more interested in creating (re-creating?) the norms where, when you're in a group of people interacting in person, cell phones are off, out of earshot. It's possibly a bit more paranoid than needed, but the path of consumer tech is certainly in that direction, and even non-technical people are creeped out by things like "I talked to a friend about this, and now I'm seeing ads for it..." - it may be just noticing it since you talked about it recently (buy a green car, suddenly everyone drives green cars), or you may be predictable in ways that the advertising companies have figured out, but it's not a hard sell to get quite a few people to believe that their phones are listening. And, hell, I sure can't prove they aren't listening.

> Do you have smart TVs up on the walls at this place...

I mean, I don't. But, yes, those are a concern too.

And, yes. Literally everything can be listening. It's quite a concern, and I think the only sane solution, at this point, is to reject just about all of that more and more. Desktop computers without microphones, cell phones that can be powered off, and flat out turning off wireless on a regular basis (the papers on "identifying where and what everyone is doing in a house by their impacts on a wifi signal" remain disturbing reads).

I really don't have any answers. The past 30 years of tech have led to a place I do not like, and I am not at all comfortable with. But it's now the default way that a lot of our society interacts, and it's going to be a hard sell to change that. I just do what I can within my bounds, and I've noticed that while I don't feel my position has changed substantially in the past decade or so (if anything, I've gotten further out of the center and over to the slightly paranoid edge of the bell curve), it's a lot more crowded where I stand, and there are certain issues where I'm rather surprisingly in the center of the bell curve as of late.
I (used to) answer questions in comments. It became too discouraging to post an answer that took 20 minutes to write and get immediately downvoted because someone disagrees with any single part of it (or they're trying to promote their own answer by suppressing everyone else's).

Comments can't be downvoted. MetaFilter had the right of it.
Very cool, thank you!

Entirely different kind of company that I've never thought about before.
Side note they sold it to Squarespace who doesn't support .ing domains.
The show also heavily plays with fable.

UFO sightings were a real common thing in Minnesota, so in the show a real UFO comes, because it’s people telling the story as they saw it. The true part is that people truly tell the stories, and in that sense, since they told this story it truly is a true story.
I'm using Hetzner and a CX31 shared VCPU https://www.hetzner.com/cloud + 250 GB volume. I want to move to object storage some day because it's cheaper.

I started with the cheapest one, the CX11 but it was just not able to run all the services the load would go up to the hundreds and the server would just block itself. The CX31 has 2 CPUs and 8GB ram which seems to work well with the load I have for now.
It says my browser is not compatible. What is this web... Do I need to switch to chrome if I want to read someone's post about fediverse now?
According to Wikipedia its more likely they were enslaved than crucified
Side note, i'd love if Beeper could impl some "standard" open APIs to brute force us in a new unified direction. I feel like the chat ecosystem is in the days of pre-LSP editors. Anytime i wanted to try a new fancy term based editor, i'd lose out of very basic features like code completion, jumping, etc. Since LSP came around, i can basically jump to any editor because everyone has this baked in now, and it works with "all" languages - it's great!

I want this for chat. I loved how great everything looked and felt with Telegram, but then i left for Signal and it was super bare bones. Eventually Signal got some stuff, but it's still missing a lot of stupid features that make it fun for me (integrated gif lookups, etc).

I'd love if we could unify around some of these behaviors and as we add new chat apps, users don't lose "basic" functionality.

Anyway, wishes aside - Beeper is really cool. I just signed up to Cloud, and my wife has been a happy user for quite a while.
Or it may lose them bargaining power. This is a very real technical proof of concept, and deprives Apple of one fewer claim that opening up is a technical challenge.
Here is a list of some of them: https://www.wireshark.org/security/
The LFP is also super cheap, and the NMC are expensive (C in NMC stands for Cobalt which is $$$). You can get 1000km in range with any chemistry, probably even lead-acid if you make it heavy enough. NMC life is fine, but it's just expensive/impossible to get. Tesla et al are trying to pass off LFP as acceptable, almost all Chinese EVs have LFP, but it's super heavy (F stands for Iron, which is heavy). Might be OK if it's flat where you live.

When the sodium batteries come out, it will be a similar story, sodium having an atomic mass of 11 vs. lithium's 3.

Anode-free is an interesting new direction, will be interesting to see if they can address the dendrite growth (dendrite growth causes short-circuit, thermal runaway and fires several months or years into service life and is notoriously hard to test for, because you might need to test for a decade under all sorts of conditions in order to see if dendrite growth occurs).

If you have the cash, NMC is certainly the better tech. If you want a cost-effective EV, the Chinese have figured this out already (LFP). Mixing them, well, it's somewhere in the middle!
Tools capable of extracting personal data from phones used by Canadian Fed depts
But unless everyone you talk to also changes it then Apple still holds the keys to your conversations. If you care, it is best to avoid software with bad security defaults altogether.
Sitting is pretty bad, yes. And it's also incredibly common - which is why it gets the press it does. Combined with a sedentary lifestyle, it's a recipe for serious and predictably poor health outcomes.

But it isn't half as hard as extended periods of hard physical labour, day after day, especially as you grow older. Doubly so if you don't have proper medical care, and your employer doesn't tolerate sick days.

These folks have it _much_ harder than we do.
Considering that you can’t even change the 12v lead-acid battery in a BMW vehicle (ICE nor EV) without paying the dealer for programming, or some extensive hacking, I don’t hold out much hope for modular replacement.
Given that someth.ing is €3100 a year, it was probably very literally "a lot of money spent for noth.ing"
> If you're ok installing stuff on the remote side, which you'd need to be to run this anyway

It is more likely easier to build / install this on a remote server than to have X11 forwarding.

- X11 fwd is often disabled in sshd config, as it introduces a number of backchannels for a compromised server to leak to the client.

- If you're working on a remote _server_, it is very unlikely that an X client will be available there. Building an X client & it's dependencies as non-root is a thousand times worst than building such a small TUI. Been there, done that.

- Remote X11 is horribly slow, you'll most likely want some more modern variant (x2go & co), which will be a nightmare to build, or tunnel.
Yes, he was a criminal since 14 (maybe earlier) -- facing his first stint at that age. It's debatable whether his reputation followed him in those days, having bounced around towns and cities so much. But he did steal bread later on in his life to -- if Hugo is to be accepted a reliable witness -- feed his family at the time. For this he was imprisoned almost immediately, leading to the creation of Jean Valjean.
Very minimal requirements, so much so I forget they even exist. In my experience A brief chat to customer services is enough to bypass it (without the need to hand over ID), and that only happens for pay as you go, As contract plan presume you are of legal age (because well you have to be to sign up for a contract), and then its a simple question during sign up and/or a toggle in the account management site (which a password reset for needs access to the sim card for a text message, not exactly rocket science for a kid to get around).

Same goes for fixed line broadband.

Edit: oh and that doesn't include bypassing the network lockouts via using your own DNS, Using Apples IP address protection (basically a VPN), or any other 3rd party VPN..
Electrofuel
Mycroft users really wished that Mozilla had kept up efforts in this direction, because otherwise the only option for reliable speech-to-text is uploading every command you give your agent to Google or Baidu. The browser is important, and I don’t support Mozilla’s vacuous projects for social-justice cred, but there are a handful of areas where we need some non-profit to provide a privacy-respecting solution.
Why not both? What better way to underline the point than pressuring to make an example out of Newag?

EDIT:

PiS has been at the core of political turmoil for the past decade or more, but rail transportation has been an issue for much longer. It's legendary at this point, it transcends politics, and portals you straight into the 1990s. So I feel it would be in the self-interest of everyone in the government to throw the book at Newag right now.