skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-priva...
> which gamers likely won't care about anyway

Seriously? I'm through with buying expensive space heaters. These CPUs are 65 W so I might upgrade the cpu with integrated graphics in my x86 box with them.

And my main entertainment is games.
Google's daycare wasn't particularly on-site. When I was there I had lots of coworkers with small kids and I can't recall any of them using the company daycare rather than normal daycare. I think TFA says there were like 300 kids in it? For a company with....what is it, over >100k? workers in the area?
I'd be reluctant to rent an EV at this point. But I own one, and I for sure won't ever being going back to gas. I can't see myself giving up the convenience, or paying $50 every week to fill it up. And only at special locations that stock gasoline. That's a hard sell.
My team got laid off in fall 2023. I knew it would be a long road ahead, but it still feels like we’re just in the beginning of the tech layoffs. Extremely depressing. Hoping I can ride this out.
> and I'll have to debug some error coming from the intersection of different versions of node being used in the JAM host

Oh, you're not using Vercel? There's your first mistake \s
Do you even need a locksmith? I was always under impression that all you needed to replace a lock in a door was a screwdriver and a new lock from Home Depot.
A stuxnet update I see!
There's lots of things Microsoft can do to make Windows more valuable and thus charge more for it, and additional services they can sell. They didn't just sell Windows but also a ton of software on top (Encarta, Flight Simulator), added game consoles, made the OS more stable etc. But that doesn't mean a single product line will continue to grow vs. stagnate. You only get to invent the word processor once.
I like Kaiser in that sense. None of this separate bills monkey business. In fact, for my plan, no bills at all. Just upfront co-pays and then you're done paying.
Ah yes, it was too crowded so nobody went there anymore.
If they’re closing daycare centers they (Google) must be really far in the red, right?

What the hell? Remind me to never work for Google.
If you claim is that "An individual can take action now" by installing a battery to charge at lower rate, then the question of if they can actually purchase power at that lower rate is fundamental.

If household power purchase price doesnt change with time/generation cost, then there is not ability to act faster than the power company.
https://linktr.ee/awu_cwa ("Alphabet Workers Union-CWA")

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/join
I prefer GA to basically every other build system especially because of the plugins but yeah, and I think caching can be turned on... but it has tons of inconsistencies related to packages and deps. This video really highlighted just how brittle the whole thing is even behind the scenes:

https://youtu.be/9qljpi5jiMQ (13:58 time stamp for the part that is especially relevant here)
Generally I prefer to do as much as possible in the browser (my user agent) without relying on the website (Kagi, etc.) providing the right filtering techniques I want.
A water pump cannot carry Stuxnet.... but the Variable frequency drive (VFD) that runs the motor which runs the pump in theory could host malware within the drive's firmware. Or perhaps the VFD was interdicted and had some custom hardware installed? This is all assuming that it's a variable speed pump and not a fixed speed, in which case it's basically directly wired to line voltage with big electrical switch for on/off control.

VFDs are connected to the process control system through a variety of interfaces... simple voltage or current loops, serial buses like BACnet, modbus, or ethernet interfaces like modbus TCP.
Looks cool, did you compose the backing tracks yourself?
Wealth redistribution via progressive taxation has been a primary way of avoiding peasant revolts for awhile (working in favor of the rich who tend to be targeted during those things). Sort of like how property taxes discourage buying and holding property without using it productively.

But yes, government should use our tax money better, and even if they are used as a debtor of last resort, they should use the money they borrow more wisely as well (less relevant now that interest rates are high).
Apple Silicon M2+ has hardware support for nested virtualization, presently unused.

It's rumored that iPad Pro M3 will see price hikes of $500-$700 to cover OLED screens and higher base memory/storage [1]. If Magic Keyboard gains an aluminum shell in MacBook style [2], iPad Pro M3 could move upmarket to MacBook Pro pricing. A 12.9" iPad Air could occupy the lower price tier [3].

If iPad Pro M3 can earn same-or-better margins/revenue as MacBook+iPad, with less physical hardware thanks to virtualization, why not save on atoms and shipping? iPad Pro has long been overpowered for the few iOS-approved use cases. Virtualization could unlock that power, freeing customers from carrying multiple devices to run multiple OSes.

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ipad-pro-2024
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/3/23857409/ipad-aluminum-magic-keyboard-apple-ipad-pro
[3] https://www.imore.com/ipad/ipad-air/129-inch-ipad-air-on-track-for-march-launch-as-display-panel-shipments-begin
I remember it going over my house as a kid and the noise was something else. I loved it, but then I was in my single-digits.
If trends persist, we will deplete the planet’s available Lithium far before the bootstrap process is over.
There is one specific case in which using a VPN is faster: if your ISP has bad peering in general, but good peering with your VPN provider.
It's not the same. Kagi is trying out multiple products including ones that depend on LLMs (eg. a summarizer). But they're not changing the core web search product by inserting these alternate features. If they do, I'll cancel my subscription and I think others will, too. Since Kagi is supported by user subscriptions instead of ads, they'll have to pay attention to that or collapse.
Well, such behavior never occurred with other games such as chess, etc.—even with card games (outside normal strategies as in poker). I'd suggest the intrinsic design and 'psychology' of Monopoly is the reason. From comments here and those I've read about over the years my experience is far from being unique. Perhaps that's why it's always been controversial and often generated stories like this.

I'm not a psychologist or behavioral expert so I'm unable to make any authoritative comment about why my family would behave differently to perhaps, say, yours.
Generally the code production units that cost more are valued more.
> Where does this myth come from?

Politics.
What are the odds though?

- Foreigner

- Engineer

- Married to Iranian

- Access to plant (Alleged)

- Died from non-natural causes within 2 weeks at age 36
On routing, make sure any endpoints used between containers are (1) configurable, and (2) using the docker internal network naming conventions when working locally.

For example I have a compose with 10+ containers in it. Each container that needs to talk to another has some kind of environment property to tell it the name of that other container. So the "api" container might have a property called DB_HOST="db", "db" being the name of the db container.

Now, when developing i.e. the "api" image locally, your local dev server should be configured in the same way, providing the DB_HOST property to your local dev server environment. By doing this, you can completely stop the "api" container, allowing the local dev server to take its place, configured to talk to your other containers running in the docker network.

This way you are maintaining the local dev server setup that we've been using for ages and not developing directly on a docker image or dependent on its build cycle, etc.
A sticker of a steering wheel... on a train? These children are going to be sorely disappointed when they grow older and learn enough to realise that their dream job of DLR driver not only doesn't exist, but also that trains don't in fact need steering! I suppose trolleybus driver would be a compromise?
its not nefarious - most likely the patient statement printed and sent before someone corrected the coordination of benefits (i.e. right insurance, right copay etc), usually triggered by you.

So you got a paper that was outdated, that's it.

Its actually typical for a patient to have a huge balance, then get sent the amount, so the patient has ownership of the problem. That usually results in patients calling and correcting whatever error they (or staff) made that made balances ballon.

Unfortunately, as long as everything including a paper cut is supposed to be covered by a regulated health plan, that's what we are going to get.

All you can eat tends to increase the cost to provide it, if someone else is paying for it.
My comment was about the Hertz car rental system, not Horizon.

Regarding software bugs in Horizon: Some of the bugs are mentioned in the early chapters in the book by Nick Wallis. I first read an article by the Guardian which only mentioned two of the bugs (as far as I remember) but also said many other bugs were discovered [1]. I first thought these were mostly UX issues [2] [3] that caused user input errors, but reading some of the inquiry reports and the book made it more apparent that there were system bugs, e.g. [4] on top of a sub-optimal message system [5]. Of course, you can say UX issues are also some kind of bug, error or defect.

[1]
>As early as 2001, McDonnell’s team had found “hundreds” of bugs. A full list has never been produced, but successive vindications of post office operators have revealed the sort of problems that arose.

[2]
>“The Dalmellington Bug entailed a user repeatedly hitting a key when the system froze as she was trying to acknowledge receipt of a consignment of £8,000 in cash. Unknown to her each time she struck the key she accepted responsibility for a further £8,000. The bug created a discrepancy of £24,000 for which she was held responsible.”

[3]
>"If a bunch of products sit in a basket for long enough on the screen Horizon will turn them into a sale automatically." -- ‘It is an example of Horizon doing what it was supposed to do.’ -- ‘It is evidence of the system doing something without the user choosing to do it.’ retorts Mr Coyne.
>"This stance of blaming the users if they were confused by Horizon’s design was taken to an extreme with “phantom transactions”. These were transactions generated by the system but which were recorded as if they had been made by a user"

[4] >In April 2003, Horizon version S30 was released by Fujitsu. It had not been properly tested, and it introduced a bug known as the Reversal bug. If a Subpostmaster inputted a series of transactions, and then for some reason wanted to cancel them, the transactions would have to be reversed out of Horizon. The Reversal bug appeared to reverse a transaction, but in fact doubled it. This was due to a plus sign in the code which should have been a minus sign. The Reversal bug was discovered by Fujitsu after Subpostmasters began to complain about the growing amount of non-existent money Horizon calculated as being in their accounts at the end of the week. When one Subpostmaster reversed an internal £13,910 cash transfer out of one stock unit and into another, he managed to create a £27,820 negative discrepancy in his accounts.”

[5] > "The biggest problem, however, was the information being written to something called a message store.”
>“According to Clint, Horizon’s developers had spent the last couple of years ‘firing any old shit’ into the message store as they changed and developed the product. Clint explained that this was a recipe for disaster. If a message was given a new data field, but this wasn’t retrospectively applied, the counter software could retrieve an old message with what it would now perceive to be a missing data field. The reaction of the application would be unpredictable.”
> Or do you just want to talk about stuff?

Saying that comes across as dismissive.
Ok so Inlike the chat in this podcast but the AI focused researcher comes up
With a “wish not a prediction “ - that causal reasoning work in AI will do away with dashboard style visualisations and have more useful ways to bubble up complex data

It hit me between the eyes
I think that's a lazy excuse, the same as saying the food in US is worse so that's the reason for the fat epidemic, not excessive eating mixed with a widespread sedentary lifestyle
In Azure DevOps pipelines there's a fun issue where if you're pulling a dependency from nuget.org it gets pulled very quickly, but pulling from your own artifact repositories hosted in the very same Azure DevOps instance take 40-80 seconds. I'm not the one paying the extra bills when my builds take 5 to 6 times longer than they should but it's still frustrating.

And Microsoft has effectively zero incentive to fix this because it still technically works and they get to charge my employer for all that extra build agent time. Here's a few examples of people reporting similar issues and getting zero help:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/devops-build-p...

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/nuget-restore-...

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/slow-performan...
I'd expect next generation to imply new architecture.
> […] “instead of us maintaining DSA support, everybody should maintain their own fork of an old OpenSSH version”?

"Instead of of us maintaining DSA for a smaller and smaller population, that small/shrinking population should take some responsibility on themselves."
Discord is like nuclear fusion - always one year from being profitable.
For an upgrade to a PC which fits, PSU and all, into a tiny case like this one:

https://store.nfc-systems.com/products/skyreach-4-tiny

with purely vanilla off-the-shelf parts - I definitely do. I will take these APUs every day of the week and so would millions of people for whom this is the new extreme in their PC system configuration space.
Given apparent US gun violence, immediate escorting off the premises seems wise. Why let potentially angry ex-employees linger?
most student loans in the US have very low required minimum payments. that's part of why these loans can stick around for decades.
Google makes so much money that the attention on it is probably more expensive than what it makes. They could have sold it. But maybe it is worth more for the stripped assets.
He asks simplicity and you threw k8s at him :)
The rules: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
I agree that having Likud in power is not in and of it self a reason to cast doubt over democracy in Israel. However I do think that the occupation over the West Bank, the Blockade of Gaza, the double judicial system for Palestinians vs. Israeli, the apartheid, the unequal paths to citizenship, etc. together makes Israel no more democratic then Apartheid era South Africa or pre-civil rights era USA. Neither of which constitute a liberal democracy be modern standards.
One of the reasons large rental companies self insure is so that they can do repairs in house without listing cars as salvaged. They make it back on resale I think I read this from car dealership guy.
I remember I used to kick-start myself into flow by doing "useless" things like rearranging code around, doing small renames for consistency, etc.

I need to return that that practice, as I find it harder and harder to interest myself in what I'm doing...
> any other team I would have understood. but devs? makes no sense.

Other roles in the company also bring in value, and can be considered a "core asset"
> Regressive taxes take a larger percentage of income from low-income earners than from middle-and high-income earners.
I agree with this definition, and I'm pretty sure this tax won't fall on low-income earners. It will fall on a combination of devs and owners. (Probably more owners than devs, I doubt we'll see a large reduction in developer salaries)

I also agree it's really bad tax policy.

But later you seem to switch to definition of whether a tax is regressive by comparing owners vs employees but that seems only tangential to whether or not the tax is regressive, which every definition I've seen has more to do with income level relative to the general population, not the 0.1%.
There was too much demand, so it's no problem that it's closed now? Can't really follow that logic to be honest.
Not to sound like I know better, but wouldn't that imply it to be hugely successful? When the demand exceeds supply, my first assumption is that an increase in supply, if possible, would reap high marginal benefits. Again, I know nothing of Google's inner workings.
He moved on to mojo right? Pretty sure the wants to implement what he had in mind using mojo without being hindered by what apple wanted to do with swift
Subversion hold outs
That has not be the experiences I've heard of from just about anyone who has had both.
> I understand I'm comparing a hybrid to an EV

I don't think you do. Prius's have only recently started using lithium ion batteries, for one. And they cycle the small battery a lot faster than a BEV. Everything we've learned from hybrids suggests BEVs will get hundreds of thousands of miles from the battery (and so far, from the cars which haven driven that far, this has proven correct).
Author here, not of the post, but the linked article, making the case for bridging-based ranking, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-rank... and the related https://bridging.systems/ which lays out a set of open problems and approaches.

It's great to see this exploration. Those interested might also want to check out https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.h... and https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-algorithmic-managemen... (and how aspects of this might be applied to AI governance https://reimagine.aviv.me/p/governance-of-ai-with-ai-through ).
I'm guessing a lot of the purchase orders were placed well before the MCAS incidents occurred. These purchases tend to be contract based, and not something you can just leave with the cashier when you suddenly decide not to purchase them. So you're contractually obligated to spend the money, so might as well get a plane out of it and hope for the best
Hunter is already a symbol to MAGA world
How to Estimate the Cost of Software Development
I've been laid off before and i would much prefer ripping the bandaid quickly than the usual hr dog and pony show they like to put up.
Anyone have a good video of the raid on "Kim Dotcom"?
“accounts that have M365 Personal or Family” (per GGP) clearly aren’t enterprise users.
The question is actually: Why let our employers being able to treat us like a disposable tissue?
Disagree.

To follow the restaurant example above.

And since the topic is debt, how do you think that affects the small private practice? The hospital, that has scheduled and contracted the doctor, on site, with the hospitals equipment is more able to have a loss column than an individual.

This seems like something the IRS should fix; as all of the above makes the contractor an employee of the hospital.

Can you imagine flying on a Delta flight and you have to pay a separate bill to a 3rd party maintenance company.
You can define a cache key in your .gitlab-ci.yml

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/index.html#cache
Just buy a 240v DPST 24 hr mechanical time switch and wire it into the electric furnace circuit (or furnace fan circuit if you have a gas-fired furnace). Intermatic makes them.

The ‘smart’ thermostat can call for heat all it wants, but nothing will happen if the time switch relay contacts are open.

I’ve seen 50 year old 24 hour mechanical time switches operating just fine, and you won’t need to replace your thermostat.

This one is $122 and comes inside a NEMA 1 enclosure:

https://www.intermatic.com/Product/T104?setcontextlanguageco...
But you paid for the OS (or the computer it came on), so it wasn’t free.
Yes and to be completely fair, the benefit for an employee is to get to focus on one specialty rather than run a business. And have a known paycheck. And get experience while being paid to do so.
Given low fertility rates, companies that provide daycare should get large tax breaks.
A lawyer commenting on the game industry (which is largely copying the Silicon Valley business model) has an excellent explanation of these cycles, and why it is that the industry is simultaneously reporting record profits and mass layoffs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-653Z1val8s

tl;dw (in my own words): investors like it when you have extreme hiring during the good times, and they like it when you have extreme cutbacks during the bad times. Investors don’t like slow and steady growth.

Interestingly, Nintendo quite firmly rejects the Silicon Valley approach, sticking firmly with the slow & steady - and while the rest of the games industry was doing layoffs, Nintendo gave all their employees 10% raises.
I'd like to think I would. I hope new buyers would.I would stick with used toyotas. I suspect the manufacturers know this and build accordingly.
I feel some distinctions could be made here.

I don't have a horse in any race or even know any of the facts. But it is entirely possible for the keys to be hardware agnostic and for MS to have a deal with Qualcomm restricting getting Windows to run natively on Apple (or other random) hardware.

Edit: such a deal would not stop you or I from developing drivers, but it could stop Microsoft from lifting a finger to support that.
I'm in favor of a new DE being developed if they can bring it to maturity. The existing DEs may be good enough for most current users, but it seems that there's still something missing to work better for more casual users without relegating them to only running Chrome apps.

Aside from the technical issue mentioned in links, the ability to execute efficiently on a long-term vision needs autonomy which isn't compatible with working within a large established development group with their own directions. I personally still choose Xfce, but welcome to seeing what System76 comes up with and may switch down the road if it strikes a good balance between simplicity and capability available to power users.
Zarf: K8s in Airgapped Environments
AFPL has been mentioned in the report as created because exec-linking proprietary software to a GPL-licensed "plug-in"¹ was seen as a major loophole. AGPL is also mentioned as potentially suitable for projects that ultimately chose a non-OSI license, with the report raising the question of why they chose not to use it.

From my understanding, it seems like AGPL tries to close a different major loophole in the GPL by ensuring its viral requirements also trigger in cloud computing uses.

Both AFPL and AGPL appear to try to prevent other companies from getting a competitive advantage by leeching from free software without contributing back, while the report suggests companies wanting to carve themselves a competitive advantage while still enjoying source code release benefits can opt to license under a DOSP regime with a rather long delay (hovering around 4 years based on the table included in the report), while remarking said delay's significance depends on how long older releases can stay relevant and that several pre-BSL DOSP experiments ended up decreasing said delay to effectively zero later on.

While the report leaves that as an open question, What do you think is the extent of this perceived competitive advantage/disadvantage in the decisioning of which license to use?

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[1]:https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins