skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I trust face unlock to prevent my kids unlocking my phone but that's a whole different kind of threat model from a state actor.

As long as you keep the default of requiring attention, face lock is likely safer than a fingerprint from the kid threat vector.

"Fox News reports that six-year-old Ashlynd Howell from Arkansas spotted her mother Bethany taking a nap on the couch. The girl then took her sleeping mother’s thumb and placed it on her iPhone’s fingerprint reader to unlock the device, all so she could order $250 worth of Pokémon merchandise on Amazon." - https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/6-year-old-uses-sleeping-moms...

"Cryptographic expert Matthew Green has found his son Harrison bypassing the security measures, CNN Money reports, by swiping the phone with his thumb while he slept" - https://www.dailydot.com/debug/touch-id-child-iphone-unlock/

Though depending on how deeply you sleep:

"Man opens eyelids of sleeping girlfriend to unlock her phone, steals over Rs 18 lakh from her bank app" - https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/man-opens-ey...

and from five years ago: "Heavy sleepers, beware: Researchers bypass Apple FaceID using glasses with tape" - https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-faceid-tricked-by...

Bonus: "Face ID shown unlocking for family members who aren’t alike" - https://bgr.com/tech/iphone-x-face-id-hack-family-members/ with the suggestion that Face ID continuously updates the facial features, and by sharing the phone the recognition algorithm may have ended up trained on both faces.
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I'm surprised to read this because my personal experience is they've gotten better now they're at critical mass. I feel like I'm able to get through them quicker than a staffed checkout.

I definitely see the issue with theft. I do suspect that this is a result of tech failures. Customers just go "fuck this, it doesn't scan so I'm not paying." It's not unreasonable, given the issues with staffing them when there are technical issues.
Medieval people viewed war as something very different. For nobility, it was an opportunity for fame and glory. For common soldiers, it was an opportunity to get rich or at least gain some wealth. For everybody involved, it was a duty and a question of honor.

One thing that seems unexplored in historical writing to me is how we use the same concept to refer to activities that have changed dramatically over the millennia.

War, specifically, is a good example: war today is a certain kind of experience, filled with bombs and drones and driving around avoiding IEDs and artillery. War a thousand years ago was an entirely different thing, where you might be fighting another guy in direct close quarters combat.

Of course it was more complex than that and you had other things like widespread disease, or boiling fat thrown at you, but it seems plausible to me that it was much easier to feel “heroic” about war in the past than in our mechanized age.
A network where every node has a direct connection is a point-to-point network. Yes, it is a special-case called a fully-connected mesh, but these networks are rarely made (a fully-connected mesh of 32 servers require 32 NICs in each server and 496 cables) and it is not a common term.

What is usually described as a mesh network (technically: "partially connected mesh") is a network where every node has a route to every other node, and that every node may have a direct connection to any number of nodes, but where there is no guarantee that any two nodes have a direct connection and may need to route over other nodes. The ability to handle this sort of completely arbitrary network topology is the core to mesh networks.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking. There's also the old WiFi mesh spec (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s, what the OLPC used), not to mention Zigbee and Bluetooth Mesh.
>Can we agree that people should not be able to unilaterally take existential risks with the future of humanity without the consent of humanity, based solely on their unilateral assessment of those risks?

Politicians do this every day.
Same in Croatia with Russian content.
I'm today a neovim heavy user, but even using lazyvim, there's a lot missing with which key. Helix seems to be more out of box.

I'm also restarted my journey with neovim after helix.

Actually lazyvim convinced me to give another chance, because the community packs and mason makes lsp so convenient!

Astronvim is also a good contender, but I broke it so many times trying to customize.
Interesting, thanks for that -had been aware of it before, but now I've got some studying to do ..
After being addicted to Twitter to a point where I could not focus on anything (as someone who was born in Ukraine, all I did was doom scrolling), I've decided that the only winning move is not to play. No Threads or BlueSky for me. I am OUT.
However, inflation versus crime is studied across nations with academic rigor. Bias from a single source does not undermine the conclusion that inflation is a higher factor in certain crimes than, say, unemployment.

https://pinkerton.com/our-insights/blog/inflation-and-crime
Thanks, yes, that's a good summary. I think if the original claim was that the PE business model is pathological and parasitic because it is (economic) value-destroying then the claim must be false. Other financial stakeholders wouldn't participate, because they would make an economic loss.

If the claim is that it is pathological and parasitic because it leaves employees and customers worse off that's another argument, and I could see myself agreeing, but it's a value judgement, not a financial or economic one. In principle there's nothing that PE can't do that owner-operators can't also do. The objection is to the outcome, not the means they use to get the outcome.
I assume you mean being able to walk out the front door with the goods and have them charged to you automatically. But how does this address the current US epidemic of people stealing goods by just walking in and out because there’s no criminal charges under a certain amount in some jurisdictions? Seems like this problem will just amplified, leaving to more shuttered stores.
It's interesting that despite being a BBC article, the customers supposedly ditching them are nearly all US retailers, with only one very minor UK retailer mentioned. From my experience (in the UK) they tend to work well if staffed appropriately, and are easy and quick to deal with the vast majority of the time.
Funny thing is that most of the data is provided by us users one way or another "for free", and yet we got no say on how it's used.
Good thing the article writer is actually aware of this.
> Move fast and break things is not something i wanted to hear tbh.

Moving safely means moving slow, and that costs more - it's as simple as that. Plus it would also automatically disqualify like 80% of the workforce, due to the need for a proper formal education and certification, which would literally paralyze the industry.

And the current solution is not that different from what we have e.g. in civil engineering, the building codes for high-rise buildings are way more strict and complex than the regulations for a garden shed - in many places no permit is needed at all for it. And sometimes that means that that shad will fall in a catastrophic way, too.
I think the implication was that mechanics generally spend all day "debugging" a car or other machine.
You rolled the dice and won. You had a 17/20 chance of winning and you did.

Sleepless nights and fatigue? That’s the least of the associated worries.

People who rolled the same dice and ended up in the 3/20 group usually don’t comment.

Sometimes they do:

Some subset with a damaged life shrugs and says it was all worth it.
In the last video showing the (un)folding, the panels look translucent and floppy. I'd say this is not even alpha yet but a fake.
It wasn’t actually a private prosecution, the Post Office has the right to prosecute on behalf of The Crown. The CPS can intervene on private prosecutions so it might not have flown under the radar for so long if it had actually been a private prosecution.
How to tell someone you have never been in Venice without telling them you never have been to Venice.

Just kidding, but I don't think venetians as I know them would even want to become a world power again, yet the capital of that former world power is truly amazing place. I may be spoiled because I grew up nearby, so I have been there often, but it is one of my favourite cities in the world, just because it forces you to think completely different about what a city is or could be.
it’s not the software glitch that ruined life.

It was people making decisions about suppressing evidence, lying, not correcting the mistake.

It’s like saying faulty breaks killed thousand people and omitting that the company could have recalled the car after the first car but chose not to.

Is suspect this kind of reporting is intentional to minimize pushback. “How Fujitsu and the Post Office drove people into suicide” gets you angry lawyers. Blaming the glitch not.
Yeah, this isn't benchmarking anything related to the CPU etc. It is benchmarking the quirks of the Python interpreter.
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The article dealt specifically with imprisonment rate, and cited numbers for how it correlates poorly, and constantly lags, as well as a source which suggests increased imprisonment might actually contribute to more crime.
Indeed, and you could even make it lighter by removing the DVD burner if you didn't need it (in some models)! Or make it heavier by replacing DVD with an extra hard drive if that was the worthy tradeoff for you
> I _guess_ you can try doing training in the public, like Seti @ Home or something like that, which distributes the risk? But no idea if this is even possible in this context.

Let's say that's a field of active research. Right now you need very low latency, to the point that people connect training clusters via infiniband instead of ethernet despite the computers being meters apart. But approaches that tolerate internet-level latency are being developed
Curious. Obviously this is just just anecdote, but all the shops I use regularly (in the UK) have been increasing the number of self-checkouts and upgrading the systems. My local Waitrose has stripped out a whole load of basket tills and replaced them with a larger self-checkout area with upgraded hardware that is noticably better/more reliable.

Perhaps this is a location or shop specific effect?
So specifically, the problem here is that the contacts are made by tiny spring connectors on the motherboard. They 'spring' a distance of about 0.2 mm - which accounts for bending or flexing of each board. However, if the screws aren't tight, then perhaps 0.1mm of your 0.2mm range is wasted, and the RAM might work until the motherboard is bent or flexed and then it'll stop working.

End result: You have a laptop that crashes whenever you pick it up from the 'wrong' corner.
Did you read the article? The bulk of it is dealing with the indirection and other factors.
And this is why multiple factors are essential. It does indicate that you've had proximity to the credentials.

Ie, if I replicated your fingerprints from a drink glass in a bar, I'd likely not know your name (username) or password, which would be the first factor.

Equally if I got your credentials from a dark web leak, I'd not know your biometrics, which would be your second factor.

It isn't foolproof, but it is certainly significantly more secure than just making your password more complex.

That said, I do prefer fingerprints being an identifier (or username) rather than a credential, but as part of an MFA process I feel it adds value.
lol.. I meant that intended :). BeOS made heavy use of extended attributes. Everything was a file, and you could add attributes. With modern filesystems, this is also possible, but what made BeOS so special is that the attributes were a core feature of the OS.

The file manager Tracker (Finder / Explorer) allowed you to select any attribute as a column name. The filesystem indexed all attributes, so it was blazing fast.

For example, all emails were stored as regular files (like Maildir). They had attributes for things like: MAIL:from, MAIL:when, MAIL:subject etc.

It's a different from using a separate indexing service like Spotlight.
Upper management doesn't have to be trained engineer. However immediate direct management of development team definitely have to be trained engineers to be competent.

Also, a good manager should detect if a team contains a few "dead weights". It eventually always lead to frustration from more competent team members and this is something that can be detected and addressed if you talk to your team members.

The only thing that may be difficult for managers in the public sector is firing people unless they are contractors. I don't know how it works in the UK but I have worked in gov agencies in another european country and firing someone who was just working badly (to the point of wasting time and energy of others) was almost impossible. And sometimes upper management would throw unfit people in your team just because they needed to put them somewhere. I had a few time wasters in some of my team that had been put in our team by the unemployment agency. Basically they had spent money on them taking "classes" (which were just Microsoft certification classes) and threw them at us while most of them weren't even interested to begin with. You really had to do direct fault to be fired and it would take months or even years. The only one I have seen being fired was a project manager who booked fake meetings to go play golf during office hours.
We don't know what kind of sensors was used to test this in the article, but there are two main types of fingerprint sensors, optical and capacitive. Optical is just a camera, basically. Capacitive actually measures the variation in electric conductivity caused by the ridges of the fingerprint and can build a unique ID from that. I think the "make a cast of the finger in an electrically conductive material that is more or less within the variation of resistance of an average human finger" method would work with these, too. There are more advanced sensors that are based on capacitive touch, but have anti-cheating measures, such as making sure you have a heart beat and whatnot (think of how pulse ox meters that clip onto your finger work). I am not sure if any phone's use the more advanced types, though. I think all of them would be defeatable by a motivated attacker, even "at scale". I imagine you could create a "skeleton" of a thumb that would defeat a heart rate based verification method, and then a 3d printed fingerprint cast in a conductive material could be slipped over it, etc.

I think FaceID would be more secure based on the fact that it would be hard to fake an entire face at scale (faceID does a bunch of verification type stuff too to make sure you are not just pointing the sensor at a dummy that looks like a person). At the end of the day though, if an attacker has a sufficiently high res scan of your finger or face, and enough time/money/will, any type of biometrics could be bypassed.
Who prevented the bug from being fixed?
There is instruction level parallelism in modern CPUs. They have multiple "calculation units", that do for example addition. If one doesn't depend on the other they get executed at the same time.
As a resident of Queensland, Australia, why do people _choose_ to live in lands of ice and snow? So much of the world seems quite horrid to my sub-tropical habituated self.
in the UK the legal system has devolved beyond all reason
> The IT engineer says: “Hey guys, I have an idea, how about we all get out of the car and get back in”

"The IT person says". IT is not an engineering discipline (nor is software development in most cases), although they really should be.

And "turn it off and on again" is the canonical "joke".
Borrowing impacts jobs, and housing costs, both of which have outsized effects on people's budgets.
Deobfuscating JavaScript scramblers that also use additional internal techniques
Not really. To expand on my response: In practice there is always the operating system's event loop, both in retained and immediate mode. This is true for all mainstream operating systems.
Huh? That might be exactly how "effect handlers" are implemented.
Of course, or something as mundane as BIOS.
>theft will be next to impossible

This sounds like some tech utopia t thinking. What's gonna stop someone just grabbing something and walking out? The employees?
Kinda hard to compare it against anything, but here are some benchmarks: https://camel-cdr.github.io/rvv-bench-results/milkv_pioneer/...
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Yes, and people often forget that web browsers provide 100% backwards-compatibility to 100s of legacy web standards. Of course that bloats things up, see also Windows.

Also, parent is maybe refering to the source code size? Which also includes a huge chunk of ChromeOS code.
Frankly, the average customer does not need to be concerned with RAM speed. If he doesn't know, he doesn't need fast RAM.

RAM capacity on the other hand is something everyone needs to care about, because having insufficient RAM brings the entire computer to a screeching halt. Being blunt, I consider it a travesty that computer vendors are selling machines with 8GB of RAM today. 16GB is the new minimum for practical use, with how bloated Windows, Chrome, and honestly everything is getting.

Don't get me started any further on why we even need at least 16 gigabytes of RAM to do the same things we were doing with 16 megabytes back in the day. Bloody insane, this timeline is.
It's a really interesting strategy to proclaim this. I assume the intent is to get better leverage for an eventual comp plan: by implicitly threatening to tank the share price, he can convince the board to grant him more equity for different performance targets.

That's a very bold strategy and I'll be interested to see whether it works or not.
No it didn't. It correctly says that the glitch itself didn't ruin lives, and that the officials' response to the glitch did ruin lives.
> IP-over-SCSI

I've never heard of it, but given that it's possible, could you do theoretically do IP-over-SATA?
Twitter-style social media has become its own subculture, made of:

- people who like to argue online

- people who can easily turn any complex topic into a 100-odd character slogans

- people who like to put the world into hashtag-sized boxes

- masochists who enjoy getting into the ragebait du jour

- a vanishing minority who didn't get the memo and somehow the Algorithm has kept them in a bubble of sanity

- bots

Coincidentally most of these groups, including bots, really love the entire US culture war bullshit. They're the one that are keeping it alive, with the help of journalists, the last category of people that live on that type of social media and then report on some newspaper @oneidiotontwitter's troll post as if it were public opinion, in a perpetual cycle of mental and cultural noise.

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Look outside. People are going about their lives. The sun is somewhere in the sky. Probably not much is going on around you. That's the real world.
Paraphrasing and rewording, whether done by AI or human, are considered copyright infringement by most copyright frameworks.
For UKer, is it just me or is the M&S self-checkout system by far the worst one ?
The glitch wasn't the reason people went to prison. It was incompetence, perverse outcome-based executive incentives, plain corruption and baseless hubris.

The problem that this unearthed was that evidence of crimes committed through information systems can be obscenely complex and therefore obscenely expensive to defend against.

"Computer says guilty" shouldn't be enough, but a defence would take months of debugging. Not something somebody on a £20k salary could ever afford.

But that's what happend. Hubris that Fujitsu's system was infallible. Targets and bonuses that stopped management asking uncomfortable questions. Layers of incompetence meaning people weren't asking the right questions, missing the correct burden of proof in the legal process.

And all this over an accounting system that can be forensically picked apart. Just imagine how bad it'll be when it's a black-box AI.
As long as you keep it simple.

Here’s an old joke on the topic: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheParableOfTheToaster.html
It's amazing what you can do with some sheet metal and tin snips when there's a strong enough need for the bracket to fit a particular slot height. Homelab environment obviously. :)

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Oh, if you have even a hobby grade CNC machine around, you can get a fairly professional level result:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/3d-printab...
Signed up a couple of months ago and it was barren.

Went back yesterday and it's still that way.

There's literally nothing to read and nobody interesting to follow there.
There was a blog which posted funny high correlation quantities. Wonder if newer algorithms can find clusters of quantities and try to infer causation. Like it could determine fuel prices, food prices and people going hungry as a cluster.
Salesforce uses a (postgres) database per tenant ('org'). Imo db per tenant is the way to go for most SaaS problems.

The ease of backup/restore, the extra layer of separation, the ability to 'easily' move something off cloud -> on premises or local
Siemens also spun out so many of its divisions over the last years that I'm no longer sure what's part of Siemens anymore...

EDIT: here's a list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#Former_operations
So, laptop motherboards are say 2mm thick, with components about 2mm on either side, all except 'tall' components like power electronics and things with heatsinks.

Ram chips (~2mm thick) are soldered onto a board 2 mm thick, which uses 1mm spring contacts onto the motherboard.

Total height: 5mm above the motherboard.

So this CAMM system doesn't seem to actually solve the height or board area problem that was causing manufacturers to solder RAM directly.
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This article looks like written by a 60+ years old: it's definitely not a failure for 30-something technology-able people. It may be complicated for people with habits of cashiers and non-techy, but the near-future is going to be self-checkout. The real future will be no-checkout though: just take the stuff you need and go, shops would be able to detect what you got there and bill you.
You get different attitudes. In Russia it seems to be "Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war". Churn out some spare ones. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...
Yes, it's difficult to run macroeconomic experiments.

The question still stands. What degree of evidence is sufficient to not be off-hand-dismissed with 'Correlation does not imply causation'?
Most voice recordings are not for artistic purposes. I feel you’re falling for a false choice fallacy, because there’s a world for both kinds of performances.

Furthermore small companies without a budget are enabled to create things now that they were not able to do before because they don’t have the money for many voice actors for multiple languages. Even large companies may prototype things and create placeholder recordings.
Egyptians built pyramids in order that their kings would live forever. The pyramids were not effective at allowing their kings to live forever so why did they build so many?

Stone Age people painted the animals they were going to hunt on rocks so that the pictures would entrap the animals' spirit and they would be easier to catch. This method of ensuring a good hunt was not effective so why did they do so many paintings?