skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "illusion" is the idea behind Mirror Therapy for amputees -- the mirror makes it look like there are two limbs and the brain receives information that both limbs are intact and functional. A trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that it was effective for reducing phantom pain after 4 weeks of regular practice. I've heard people say it helps and others say it didn't. I've never tried it, since -- luckily -- phantom pain has not been an issue for me.
When he was arrested for his 4th DUI, his license had been suspended. Because of this, his dad bought him a car so he could get around (doesn't make sense to me either, haha). So he had a suspended license, no insurance, he was drunk, and driving 100+ MPH down an empty country road when he was arrested. I know all this because I bought his car from his mom, and I'd drive him to work from the jail on Mondays and Tuesdays and he'd complain about how unfair his life was.

But therein lies the problem. It shouldn't be up to a judge's opinion on how much time someone with a DUI should receive. Just make it a flat 5-year sentence across the board so we don't have to worry about how the judge felt that day.

I don't see the work release issue as a separate issue. People with DUIs should have no single recourse of action to leave state custody until their sentencing is complete. You've proven you're a danger to society, it would be irresponsible to toss you right back in. There should be no work release, no reduced sentence, nothing like that. If you voluntarily risk the lives of others on the road, you give up 5 years of your own life if you're caught. I think that's exceedingly fair.
I wonder how that will work out. It just looks so clunky and bulky, with limited FOV. I'd feel blinkered and constantly wanting to check my surroundings. For me an iPad is the best thing for movies on a plane. It's small, versatile, and I am aware of my surroundings.

I guess we'll see how people use it, but right now it is too expensive and full of compromises for me to consider.
All trash. A meeting in person is always shorter cos you don’t deal with audio issues a talking over each other and the mountain of other issues from remote calls. No amount of money in good hardware fixes this no matter what anyone claims.
Well, impossible to say without context. But maybe it is more interesting what you should do afterwards. What did you do afterward?
I used to work at Amazon too. I also refused to go in (even though the office was only a 15 minute drive) because I signed up for a remote role and I wanted to keep that flexibility.

> I wonder if Amazon would check the Slack+Chime logs to see how the activity drops before and after RTO mandate.

They already have and they found that productivity was way down. They don't care. They made this decision from the gut, despite claiming to be a data driven company. When anyone called Andy on it he just said "sometimes we make decisions that we know are right" blah blah.

Their data shows their decision was wrong from a productivity standpoint. But that's not why they did it. They did it so they wouldn't loose their tax breaks from all the cities that were threatening to pull their subsidies if they couldn't show enough butts in seats in the downtown areas. Also they over-hired in the pandemic and need people to leave because their attrition numbers were too low for 2022 and 2023.
I can't believe you are actively suggesting this. Even in this horrific case.

Okay, so you train your classifier on extortion. Then you train it to detect sexual content. Then you train it to detect potential piracy. Then you train it to detect wrongthink. Then you don't have a free society anymore.
Disposable vapes will be banned, UK says
Totally agree with your move!
Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub Using OpenStreetMap
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Meaning, Intel vms? This is great. I'll check it out.
Quick question friend - that ag data gets sold into finance, for instance, at way higher monetary value than any value-add to ag output from those sensors for the farmer. Those farmers getting a cut of the sales?

Edit - looking around my ag town, that also hammers right to repair which is blocked by JD's DRM approach, I don't think they are getting a cut.

Edit 2 -
> If the tractor is not online or the GPS isn't working the farmer will stay home to fix things

pretty sure you mean the farmer will go to the licensed JD repair outlet and get their tractor fixed by the local farm/car dealership, vs. themselves, which is how it always was before JD started this digital apprpoach.
Which "they" are you talking about? There are the foundation and the company. The foundation partly owns the company and makes money from company. They are going to make more money from the IPO. The important question is how much does the foundation own and does it control the company.

Non-profits that sells things like a business aren't allowed.
No, it's not. Just think about your stress levels commuting, people infecting you with all kinds of diseases at work that lower your quality of life and have the chance to impair you to a great extend.
It's cheaper, for one
you claimed apple’s customers dont want an alternative app store. I asked you how you could possibly know that if none exist. You responded by saying that actually is just APPLE that doesnt want alternative app stores. Do you take back your earlier claim that Apple’s CUSTOMERS dont care about having alternative app stores?
Doesn’t apply to red hat
Sometimes I wonder if those of us who prefer remote work are just the same set of people who found "communicate organically with the humans around them" to be a major hindrance to their productivity.

Increasingly more over time, I have come to really miss the office I went to every day before I worked remotely. I miss having coffee and lunch with people, saying hi on the way in and out, and I really miss having team meetings and 1:1s and brainstorming sessions in person. But I don't miss my desk even a little bit. I spent as much of my time as possible working from private cubbies.

When I'm working, I don't want people around, and I don't want to be pulled into "organic" communication. In practice, the best process (for me) in an office setting was to ping people asynchronously - "hey let me know when you have a moment, I want to brainstorm about xyz" - and then get together when it works for both of you. But this is the same process used in remote work!

The downside is you can't walk-and-talk or get a coffee together or find a spot with a whiteboard, everything is soul-sucking video calls. But for me, losing the "organic"-ness of communication, specifically, is a pro, not a con.
Wouldn't the desired alternative be to have adequately wealthy, good quality of life farmers? Why do you start from the position that farming is undesirable, and extrapolate that people shouldn't farm? Why not examine the barriers preventing a practical family farm?
When I interviewed roughly 10 years ago, I asked every person I met on the team roughly how many hours a week they worked. Every single person deflected and answered a question I hadn't actually asked.

For that team at least, the job you were hired to do was to get results. I imagine OP was referring to people simply putting time on the clock and being just present enough to avoid notice, without actually caring whether they were getting the same results a full level of effort would achieve.
wave. I've been doing this for the last two years, but really dialed it in to the extreme over the last year. I don't give a shit if I get PIP'd at this point. If a company is willing to screw me over at every turn with no remorse and not an ounce of compassion, then this is how I'll fight back. Fuck em!
The author fails to recognize that performance culture is actually the norm but the primary mission is profit maximization, not product quality.
Kubecost 2.0
It would be rather strange to expect a mechanism that bars governments from holding bitcoins to be built into the protocol, and thus it is rather strange that you expect this to have ever been the intention.
The site contained no piracy, only links. If it was a "piracy website" why are German authorities not going after Google, Yandex & co?

There was no law forbidding what they did at the time they ran the site, even if there have been law changes since. It's the PirateBay nonsense all over. In that case it was later discovered that one of the police officers investigating the site had previously worked for Warner Brothers before returning to the Swedish police.
If only there was a way to magically pass extended modifier keys to Emacs over a terminal…

It's the only thing stopping me from using Emacs remotely over a terminal: I really do need my Super modifier. Hyper I can live without, but being able to do shift-super-f for example is fundamental.
Do you know if there are some plans for sockets or TLS APIs or are we far away from this?
IIRC the protocol is also a nightmare for potential reflection DDoS attacks.

Also, the security chain is top-down, from owner of the TLD to the domain to the resolver to the client. With DNS over TLS and DNSCurve, you have it the other way around.
OMG we had half of the 4th floor of that building on sublease when the pandemic hit (and for 2 years prior). The week of the first lockdown in 2020 we were all set to sign a new long term lease for an entire upper floor and half of the one below. Lockdown happened and we told them "let's just hold off on this for a bit". They were, of course, disappointed and desperate to get us to sign.

We held off, and it quickly became obvious the pandemic was going to be a long term thing. So when our sublease expired in September 2020 we moved out and have been fully remote and distributed ever since. We lucked out and dodged a bullet by not signing a long term lease for more space than we needed at the absolute top of the market.

Granted, we were already 60% remote at the time so it wasn't a completely massive shift. But that's it, we're remote and distributed and we're never looking back. Good bye central office!!!
It would be funny if legal teams at huge companies have OKRs and evaluations. “You hit your target of 250 C&Ds this quarter great work”. Justifying your paycheck is scarier when thinking about the legal dept.
I started partitioning my drive based on the data's relative importance+backup needs:

- 200GB OS (Optional backup; no user files)

- 400GB Data (Manual backup: desktop, users (home), documents, downloads, etc)

- 400GB Sync (Synced to cloud: Insync, Dropbox, github repos, mailstore/gyb email backups, etc)

- 800GB Ephemeral (No backup; large temporary/recoverable files: Google file stream, scoop.sh, pnpm store, steam games, etc)

It's probably easier on linux (package managers), but most of my daily programs can be installed via a single scoop.sh command.

- Scoop is mostly on the "Ephemeral" partition, but has a "persist" folder that points to the "Data" partition

- I favor the home directory of git-bash for windows (vs Windows profile home), which is synced via DropBox

- Most of my git repos are also synced to dropbox. However I use insync to sync them so I can omit the massive, numerous node_modules folders.

- It takes a little configuration to ensure folders like desktop;home that would normally exist on the OS partition are on the Data partition or Ephemeral partition as needed.
A person's auditory reaction time is probably below 1s and that would throw off your calculation by ~340m. Most farms are larger than 340m in any direction so you still end up within the same property area.
Btw - Racket guarantees more than Scheme.
In Racket non-tail calls can't lead to a stackoverflow.
When a "potential stackoverflow" is detected the "frames" are moved to heap,
and the computation continues.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49912204/why-there-is-no...
That is fine and great. But there is a big difference between a farmer who has a system to, lets say set time for watering and can control, repair (the pipping for that system is run of the mill PVC and they can source parts from suppliers for other parts of the system), and operate each set of equipment without it needing to reach out to some company's API, but another piece of equipment the won't work if it can't phone home and proprietary parts that can't be gotten from a supplier.
Do they have background in fuzzing or formal verification? That's what you need if you want to make high-assurance software.
I'm curious what efforts have gone into finding these scammers? Any? I might be wrong but I can't imagine them having great OPSEC, especially if they are accepting payment through venmo...probably a hacked account, but they would try to get the cash out of the hacked account in some manner which would help target them.
inertia

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6605

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8080
Absolutely, but that’s not heat. Things like heat produced from burning wood is an example of potential energy of binds getting released as kinetic energy + photons.
This is assuming that all people/groups are essentially equally productive, which is not true.

People in more developed countries are >10x more productive than people in undeveloped countries.
Thank you. I will fight this new trend of 100% Slack/Teams/Etc. as long as I possibly can.

Email provides a barrier between you and the work -- email isn't a real time form of communication. Chats, meanwhile, imply immediate response. Hell, these apps even show when you're active -- I've gotten passive-aggressive messages like, "I know that you have DND on, but can you confirm you're seeing these messages?" chats outside of working hours.

I get why Slack/Teams/Etc. is a great supplement to email, especially when it's a smaller internal team collaborating. But ditching email is a terrible idea.
58 Rules for Beautiful UI Design
> too expensive

The killer, of course. As they say: anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands. In this game, a solution that's too expensive is often not a solution at all.
At the risk of sounding very dumb — what were you able to determine from that? I have no idea what it means, almost sounds like the mafia

Edit: their about page sounds even more mafia-esque.
“Dealogic connects banks and investors in the only truly global network… Firms who use Dealogic see results in increased profitability and productivity… Whether you want to analyze wallet share, execute a deal, align operating units, manage risk, or comply with regulation, there is only one answer.”
Hmm... My Emacs has just worked with full colour in terminal for years. I didn't know it was a thing that needed to be configured. Skimming through the article I hope I never have to know this stuff.

I also have icons in my terminal by using nerd icons.
> This is due to people having money being able to afford good educational programs for their children at the start while those without significant affluent backgrounds will have significantly less access to quality educational resources before they reach college age.

When you survey high achieving people in the world, or in your wikipedia history, do you mostly find people who got there because of the opportunities their parents paid for? How many of those people have brothers and sisters - do you also find that their entire family does well? I don't see that. At most I see richer/more fortunate people have a higher average. But the idea that it's the dominant factor is in conflict with observation - that it's really common to see people who do much better than those around them even though they all had about the same level of resources.

Also: is your thesis that the more money that is spent on a child's education, the better they will do? How do you square that with observations? Do you believe that claim is supported by evidence? I don't - I think that for example a town with poor but middle class people (i.e. a suburb of Shanghai) would have way higher scores than a town of blue-collar workers in the US who had nominally higher pay. i.e., pay/spend doesn't really matter (unless pay is so low that the kids are directly feeling the effect of poverty). Do you believe that school districts which spend more per student also have higher scores as a result? Have you ever looked up that claim?

Also note that by your thesis that spending money on childhood education leads to improvements in "merit", the educational quality of US & ivy league students should have been going up dramatically in the last 30 years as prices grew much faster than inflation. Yet, I'd bet that per person, Ivy graduate productivity (patents/person, innovative academic publications/person, etc.) has been dropping the entire time. If money makes people more academically proficient, how do you explain that?
I like someone that direct and opinionated leading something as critical as the Linux kernel.

That message wasn't just for Steven, but for everyone else who contributes to this critical piece of software we rely on. It's usually very easy for standards to slip, so it requires constant resistance in the opposite direction
Until relatively recently, ECC DNS had (if I'm remembering Geoff Huston right) a 5% failure rate for resolvers. Towards the end, that may have mostly been a misconfiguration artifact (DNSSEC is extremely easy to misconfigure; see again Huston) but either way the perception has been that RSA is more compatible.

Also: why would you bother changing at this point? DNSSEC isn't getting traction (see, once again, Geoff Huston).

The 1024-bit key thing is unforgivable in 2024, but also endemic to DNSSEC.
You can word it like that. But in actuality I don't care and most people behave exactly like me. Ads are just an annoyance mostly.
TRAMP also exhibits a wide range of performance problems. Getting it not to hang the display of the buffer list or lock up Emacs completely for minutes at a time requires a deep dive in to a decade of Stack Overflow breadcrumbs. I've done this, and I'm still not completely satisfied with the performance. I do however love the concept.
"You will all end up shining the shoes of the Chinese!" []

[] with minimal apology to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo
it's not a blog - it's a DNSSEC validator tool that gives you a pretty diagram of which keys are signing what.

There are others around which I won't link to right now lest they get clobbered too.
That is clearly not what they are saying.
Does it actively discriminate or is that just a talking point that is repeated?

Presumably what we want to say is if we have 100 children with similar economic and educational backgrounds and experiences and 70 are of type A, 25 type B, and 5 are type C then when it comes to the college body there ought to be relatively similar representation by those ratios.

That is for every 100 students in college, 70ish are type A, 25ish are type B, and 5ish are type C.

However that's with the premise that each type's makeup of the whole is also having a similar background and experience which we also know is likely not to be true.

So if you wanted to be "more fair" you'd have to include socioeconomic conditions each applicant is coming from rather than just purely by particular racial makeup.

So if you have Low income, middle, high, and 300 students, then take 100 from each income bracket, then within those brackets aim for the racial/cultural make-up be reflective of those income brackets make-up.
> I hate that I still feel bad using it as a phone (terrible audio)

If there are some handcrafty people on Pinephone Pro around: try some opensource denoiser like rnnoise. If it works, then it's probably worth the effort to integrate a opensource software VoWifi (using doubango IMS -- even if it's to do VoWifi over LTE), since that will allow you to use the denoiser (and the codec!) of your choice, rather than using whatever Qualcomm has in that quectel module.

In my opensource software VoWifi for Android implementation, I already implemented rnnoise, because I know that the denoiser you get on smartphones vary wildly, and there is a nice "unprocessed" audio source on most smartphones to bypass the vendor denoiser.

I've had various issues with vendor denoiser, going from, no denoising and no silence injection at all, but with AGC, so when I stop speaking the other side hears the noise very well. I've had vendor denoiser eat some very specific pronunciations: my guess is that it was calibrated for CN languages rather than europeans. And then, there is Qualcomm which have various levels of denoiser ("fluence"), which costs more or less, so if OEM is cheap... well denoiser is cheap.

On the rest of the article, despite my love for opensource software, PPP is nowhere near usable for me, so I commend the author for sticking with it so hard. I've tried PPP a bit, but the form factor alone kills me (well my daily driver is smaller than anything you can find.

Camera is really an issue, we really need opensource software processing pipelines -- that'd be slower, but much easier to improve, evolve and customize, and you can do the processing "later" (save only 10 raw frame burst, and process them during the night into merged photos). That's my wish, though sadly I tried doing it and so far failed spectacularly...

> are also getting completely open source firmware, like the Modem itself,

yeah... it isn't. opensourcing the AP of the modem is not very interesting, since you just end up with something as open as a smartphone. The modem's modem is still closed source.

> Texting in SXMO happens through the Linux console, neatly wrapped up in scripts and menus that make it easy. All you need to know, is that the text editor requires one press of the "i" key, before you can start writing.

Uh. That's next level usability... Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of vim, but uh maybe not on a smartphone. At least that's not a selling point.
I have spent enough time fighting with pulseaudio and pipewire on desktop machines. I don't want to do it on my phone. Drat. I'm still waiting for a reason to use my pinephone. It's incredible that the one thing you need for a phone, the audio, is so hard to get right.
It might be good enough to detect a large number of accesses to any single row and then initiate a complete refresh. This wouldn't be triggered often by normal software. Most exploits have to use cache flush instructions, and with modern several-way-associative caches it would be rare for normal code to trigger it accidentally. In that case, the DRAM maker just has to specify the maximum number of accesses to any row.
> Is there a competent well-known group implementing things like Asahi for Mac?

Not that I'm aware of. Pine's model seems to be "Lob hardware over the fence with some limited but reasonable documentation and hope everyone else takes care of it" - which has worked surprisingly well for things like the PineBook Pro. But phones are a lot more complex, as there are more moving parts, and a lot of those moving parts are almost entirely black boxes to people who hack on them. Cell modems, audio pipelines, all of that is rather different on a phone, and those seem to be the main problem points on the PinePhones. They're a usable enough wifi pocket computer with poor battery life, but working in the way one expects a phone to work is a challenge.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what's going on with Pine right now. All their information wikis and communities are offline and have been offline for over a week now: https://pine64.org/2024/01/21/outage_january_21/

It doesn't give me great hope in their long term viability right now that they've lost all their community facing infrastructure, which is literally the only thing that makes their products workable.
GPS sync allows phones to have accurate time to within microseconds if not hundreds of nanoseconds. Since sound travels ~300 m/s even 100ms only adds about 30 meters error. That's more than accurate enough to pin point a plot of land.
When you change a table in DB2 and add a field, you have to rewrite all of your RPG programs that use that table.

Hot garbage that obliterates our production times, as far as I can tell.