skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems to be impractical advice with the way devices are going. Look at iPhones.

Unfortunately, quite a few security practices are sometimes "impractical". If you go purely by practicality, all computers would always trust you and do as you request — what is that if not the most practical way of interacting with a computer?

You always need to decide where to place your personal trade-off, maximize in that direction, and be honest about it to yourself. If you don't care about security to this degree, buy an iPhone. If you don't care about their known shortcomings, use face ID and/or fingerprint sensors. Or buy a different phone.

> way devices are going. Look at iPhones.

Also, FTR, almost all US people have a distorted view of iPhone market share. It's only the US where they have about half the market. It's far less in the rest of the world. That said, they still have somewhat of a "technology leader" position where everyone else feels like they have to imitate it, so… meh.
I don't know what's going on, but it's clear that there are vast sums of money going into illegal black programs beyond congressional oversight. I strongly suspect that Kirkpatrick's role is to deflect public interest and criticism in order to maintain the status quo. I don't trust a single word he says.

Regardless of whether or not there is alien life, our government should be forced to open up its secrets, whatever they may be. We don't need any of this to stay safe.
Walking on a sheet of oil perhaps. Walking typically moves you forward, not backwards.
23andMe: Raw genetic data stolen in months-long cyberattack
Hmm I can take my physical sim out and plug it into any other phone over here.

The only exception is when the destination phone is carrier locked by a contract, but they have to unlock it for a nominal fee at the end (I think it was a few eur, or maybe last time they didn't charge me anything.).

Are you referring to the fact that no one buys contract free phones in the US?
It has milder climate, but milder does not mean pleasant.
The standard is uselessly incomplete and vague.

There are places where MUSL implements a broad set of GLIBC extensions in order to actually be useful. However, it does not indicate that in any way, and sometimes violates the conditions that GLIBC documents. This requires workarounds.

There are places where MUSL implements a standard interface in a particular way. If you're lucky, this "just" means giving up on performance if you don't know you're using MUSL.

Sometimes MUSL implements its own ABI-incompatible extensions. The time64 transition, for example, is a huge mess regardless, but musl provides no blessed way to figure out what's going on. The only reason it's not an even bigger disaster is that almost nobody uses musl.
I stumbled across it, because bazqux.com (which I‘m trialling now) uses it:

Is BazQux Reader re­ally writ­ten in Haskell and Ur/Web?
Yes. I love to use the best tools avail­able.
Catching exceptions from eval-ing untrusted code doesn't strike me as being a big help from security POV, or is there something else special about the block form of eval that helps here?
I believe giving into China was a mistake for Apple executives ethically, commercially and politically.

In the long term they’ll be forced to give up all the commercial surpluses to local mega apps by the government, and the political/ethical problems require no elaboration.
GitHub, NPM registry abused to host SSH key-stealing malware
Squatting is like playing piano. If you don't start at the age of 5 then you will never be good at it.
Rclone solves so many problems for me it's crazy.
Someone hasn't read their Terms and Conditions Agreement.
https://youtu.be/P_4CL4VS3Ug?si=qq9ic12gkyLuHpjc
They are nice for a reason, though. They're a temporary monopoly in exchange for open access to the patented mechanism. They're far better than copyright, basically.
If you'd like to explain why you think that statement is false, with actual details and numbers, I'll consider it. As far as I can tell, it is true, and you've provided no evidence for your claim.
Seems like the opposite to me—small artists used to be able to make a living playing local bars, or maybe be a musician and have a part-time job, but nowadays there are so few venues with live bands.
Vendors of elaborate, configurable, "enterprise" tools for software development and monitoring.

JIRA, SonarQube, VeraCode, Coverity - all these apps that seem like a good idea in principle, but end up being misconfigured with complicated workflows, and generally get in the way of ever making changes to software and get used to tick the security box instead of actually fixing anything.
The privacy laws are new(ish), which is what makes companies even consider the privacy side of things nowadays.
My print handwriting is terrible but my cursive is pretty good. For that reason I have switched to exclusively cursive when writing anything personal. Also, you can create your own little embellishments and style which is fun
Comparing a walled garden to opiate proliferation is certainly a choice.
The Columbia River Gorge is the same age as the Cascades and much older than the glacial floods. The Columbia river is older than the mountains and the Gorge formed as the mountains rose.

The Gorge looked different before the glacial floods, they definitely change it. But the floods took that path to the sea because the Gorge was there. The floods had more effect on the Willamette Valley where they dumped lots of debris into the valley.
Excerpts from his lectures can also be heard in the game Everything. Compared to some of the other sources from commenters here, Everything's collection is much smaller.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796861
Comparing free, hobby project to an office suite developed by many dozens highly paid programmers every day for 17 years. Yes, that makes sense.
Language is just one element of identity anyway. Also, the concept of "United Country X" is a XIX century invention, largely based on now-discredited racist ideologies. We should aim for something better.
It's a tech demo. It's not quite there yet.
This stuff fascinates me for some reason. I remember in high school a story I read about a telegraph operator that sent a message to someone from a local (who, according to the story was believed to be a spy) during WWII; something along the lines "FATHER IS DEAD." Later that day a reply came back, "IS FATHER DEAD OR DECEASED."

That really amped up the fascination gene in me =D
> And I'm not a boss so all I can do is beg.

There must be an interesting story that explains why companies everywhere created the powerless tech lead position separate from manager. The tech lead is stuck in an impossible situation, apparently.
> You want to jump, spin, crouch, crawl, lie down

I played Squid Game VR at one of those whole room VR places recently. It was great! We could run, crouch, jump, spin, and interact with others. It all worked. It was even part of the games to do these things.

Felt surprisingly immersive. You forgot you were in some dark room in the basement.
> The CTF is recurring each year however, and updates count as downloads.

Having to pay for updates seems a bit weird.

Also, I can’t tell if I’m glad apps where I live won’t be redirecting me to the web for payment or not. On one hand it’s giving the web a bit more utility, on the other hand it makes it easier to scam people across platforms… idk.

It’s really too bad we can’t intact regulation that puts the interests of companies like Apple and their users more inline.
Utter nonsense hit piece, considering the widespread push to RTO.
I know a lot more couples where the man has left, leaving the woman the raise the child, than the other way around.

"If you create life you must be responsible for it"

Maybe women are being told that, and you just haven't heard it said to you because you're not a woman. Or maybe women don't need to be told.
Please, don't force me to log in
I actually did not know this was specified by a standard. That does indeed make it perplexing that not all resolvers do it.
Interesting point, but I think it is not a counterpoint. It may be true that there is less room for tiny performance acts with zero success on writing songs that people listen to. It is however a much better place for small acts that write songs that people want to listen to in niche interests. Such audiences can’t be sustained in a single locale.
Pong Wars
I liked the game, it was a lot of fun. It really came together like playing out one of those pulp Forgotten Realms books I had, which was really cool. I guess all I was trying to say is that those weren’t necessarily great writing, even though I loved them.
Looks like a statically typed PHP replacement with a lot of domain-specific type checks. I really wanted to see how they enforce this one: ‘Include client-side code that makes incorrect assumptions about the "AJAX"-style services that the remote web server provides’, but couldn’t find any examples on GitHub.
At that level of quantization / distillation, smaller models like phi-2 (q&a) and wavecoder-6.7b (code-gen) might be preferable over QLoRAd ones: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2

> 2bit is pretty damn terrible

Wait till you go hybrid [0] or even 1bit [1]

[0] https://github.com/efeslab/Atom

[1] https://github.com/IST-DASLab/qmoe
The point of professors is to grow doctoral students into new professors.

The point of undergraduates is to learn enough on their own that merely talking with them does not make the professor want to poke his own eyes out.

There are two kinds of intern - those who want me to teach them and those that learn by them selves and Injust point out what’s wrong

Yes I should do much much more to reach out but …
> this article is unduly panic-inducing, particularly for the New Yorker.

It would be seen as an uncomfortable reminder in the PNW, and not panic-inducing. Glad that you framed it with your own location to give context. I'm not suggesting people in BC, Washington, and Oregon are fatalist or unconcerned, just aware that in our human lifespans there are the positives that can usually outweigh the risks.
We can write anything; the differentiator is evidence. Certainly there are programs outside public oversight, but do we have evidence of the vast sums outside Congressional oversight? Where do they get the money if not from Congress? Do you have evidence of Kirkpatrick's role?

> our government should be forced to open up its secrets

That is generally the law (including the Freedom of Information Act), though there's overclassification by security agencies. Some things need to be classified, obviously, so what exactly are you advocating? How do we improve it?
Washington D.C. reaches record-breaking 80°F a week after snow
You mean like a suit?

I find current HMDs strapped to my head very uncomfortable, and that they're a major hurdle for mass VR adoption. In general, people want to be _less_ physically absorbed by technology, not more. I can't imagine anyone would want to use an exoskeleton robot suit for increased VR immersion. If anything, you would be less immersed because of the suit itself.

I think this level of physical immersion is not feasible. It's likely that we'll prefer brain-computer interfaces instead, and the stimulation would be done directly on our nervous system.
The terms not holding up to regulatory scrutiny is exactly the issue.
> these sort of reductive frameworks help people make some sort of sense of it and whatever issues/trends they are facing in their day to day lives.

They mostly help generate clicks for the publisher, and to push someone's agenda (if it was paid for).

If it ever helps someone in a significant concrete way, that's a mere coincidence.
"ufo detection" and missile defense are the same technology so you couldnt be more wrong.
I never heard of home.arpa so I'm also curious what broke.

The only thing I can imagine would be if you accidentally created a root for .arpa.
I do not really understand what is the problem with flexible <select> implementation in browser.

In my Sciter[1] the following are supported ( see screenshot [2] ):

<select type="dropdown"> - select with popup
<select type="list"> - select list
<select type="tree"> - hierarchical select (a.k.a. tree view)

and all of them may have

<select multiple> - multi-select, value = array[]
<select multiple="checkmarks"> - multi-select, value = array[]

select type="tree" may have also

<select type="tree" treelines> - draw treelines

<select> and <option>'s may have arbitrary markup inside (<hr>,<img>, whatever), even more any DOM element may have role="option" defined making it a selectable option :

<li role="option">...</li>
<option value="Sc"><code>Sc</code>Scandium</option>

And as a bonus, by declaring different flows in CSS in list you may have:

select { flow:horizontal; } // horizontal select
select { flow:vertical-wrap; } // multicolumn select

[1] https://sciter.com
[2] https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/select-variant...
While it's essential to acknowledge the impact of personal actions on family and responsibilities, it's also important to recognize the distinction between an individual's personal life and their professional or philosophical contributions.

Watts indeed had personal shortcomings, as many do -- judging his entire body of work based on his personal life can be limiting and narrow-minded.
I am being downvoted, maybe I should explain myself better:

Most filesystems from x years ago do not cope well with current trends towards increasing file numbers. There are robust filesystems that can deal with Petabytes, but most have a tough time with Googolplexian filenumbers. I speak of all the git directories, or venv folders for my 100+ projects that require all their unique dependencies (a single venv is usually 400 to 800k files), or the 5000+ npm packages that are needed to build a simple website. or the local GIS datastores, split over hundreds and thousands of individual files.

Yes, I may not need to back those up. But I want to keep my projects together, sorted in folders, and not split by file system or backup requirements. This means sooner or later I need something like rsync to back things up somewhere. However, rsync and colleagues will need to build a directory and file tree and compare hashes for individual files. This takes time. A usual rsync scan on my laptop (ssd) with 1.6 Million files takes about 5 Minutes.

With ZFS, this is history and this is the major benefit to me. With block suballocation [1] it has no problems with a high number of small files (see a list of all filesystems that support BS here [2]). And: I don't have to mess with the file level. I can create snapshots and they will transfer immediately, incrementally and replicate everything offsite, without me having to deal with the myriad requirements of Volumes, Filesystems and higher level software (etc.).

If I really need ext4 or xfs (e.g.), I create a ZFS volume and format it with any filesystem I want, with all features of ZFS still available (compression, encryption, incremental replication, deduplication (if you want it)).

Yes, perhaps this has nothing to do with the _cloud_ (e.g. rsync.net offers zfs snapshot storage). But the post was about rclone, which is what my reply was pointed to.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_suballocation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
Being offline doesn't help with distractions. People will send messages anyway and that red dot will be there. This is a long standing issue with Slack, you can't silence it completely. Even muting channels doesn't help, you will get a notification or the red dot anyway.

The only way is to go nuclear: uninstall it from your phone and close the desktop app. But that isn't doable in most companies.
I could dump a dozen headlines from the last two days about how great the economy is. And one or two that talk about how the latest "GDP rose by 300 billion" is balanced by "public debt rose by 800 billion."

The economy of the world I live in hasn't been getting better; we've drastically reduced the variety of foods we buy and I'm stretching medications for chronic conditions
> I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint

no sympathy. Chen seems a little irritated (as he should be) at the situation, but he's still missing (or purposely not stating) the real point. the correct response is alluded to by a couple folks in the comments section. i'll be more explicit:

- if microsoft was paying attention, it would simply add the functionality these 3rd party hacky extensions were adding, obviating the need for that extension at all. Like adding a setting for the flashing taskbar buttons you mentioned.

- failing that, simply allow some of those "internal" functions as a public extension points

the fact that a market for such egregious hacks implies significant demand for something.

gad, explorer and windows UI is such a dumpster fire. you don't even need to do any kind of fancy market research, just look at what the most popular extensions are doing to patch over deficiencies and them fix them!
I guess I can understand that.

I’m not making any bold claims about inventing anything or anything like that in fact, there are multiple times where I say I’m not doing anything special.

I’m just describing that my mental process resembles and steps the same way a markov process does (or OODA or SPA if you prefer) and that not everybody thinks like that and that and I found that certain types of scientific thinkers also have that same type of thinking. The Dykstra explanation there lined up with my experience

I cant control how people react to that so :shrug:
No they didn't. Germany lost a large chunk of its eastern lands that was "given" to Poland (but in reality conytrolled by the Soviets) and Japan's large prewar empire in northern China and Korea (since the early 1930s) was taken away from the Japanese leaving them only the home islands. A bit of basic historical knowledge is good if one is going to argue.

As for Gaza not being able to sustain its population, i'm doubtful. It's a tiny territory almost devoid of material/natural resources, but then there are many places and enclave countries in the world that are similar in size, heavily populated and with good standards of living. The reason why: They're not unremittingly belligerent with their neighbors, run by a government explicitly dedicated to the erasure of one of those neighbors, and overall allowed to exchange with the rest of the world fully.

With that said, the hardline stance of Netenyahou and those who support him is doing little favors to Israel either, if a path to peace is what Israel wants.
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Well I guess if you die, then your trip took infinite time (you never arrive), so it does tend to push up your probability weighted average. But it's a push.
This UFO investigation stuff is just a giant bandwagon, which people get on to for money, influence and power.

I don't think there's any extra-terrestrial activity going on here on Earth, period. Maybe elsewhere in the Universe and probably not in our solar system either.
> Before, you needed an army of people and companies on your side, and had to be exceedingly popular to stand any chance of earning a penny.

Before, you could play to local audiences. You even stood a decent chance of making a living doing that, or maybe enough that you could do that and have a part-time job. Nowadays it’s a lot harder.

This is where a lot of our big stars came from, in the first place. Some were in cover bands, or played piano in local bars for small audiences.

It’s easier than ever to get popular, but harder than ever to earn money.
Yeah that's great advice, I used to use Excel before I moved to Google Sheets and I think for my purposes it would do fine. I don't really use the sharing features of Google Sheets myself to be honest.

I appreciate this wasn't one of my requirements in my original post, but is there a way to view or even edit Excel files on a phone? Not that I use that feature of Google Sheets much (the iPhone app is one of the least usable and worst apps in any category I've ever used) but it's nice to have in a pinch.

(I bought a Nokia Windows Phone back in the day, 10 years ago now I guess, and I was excited to hear it came with Excel! But I think I never got it to work.)
> Part of the value proposition Apple offers is that they will work to keep your device secure and free of malware

This is pure marketing talk, and something I'm not sure people actually ask for. People have been buying PCs forever, where you can install anything you want without permission from anyone.

While I have other machines, I still run Windows 7 on my main PC, often install random freeware on it and guess what? It's not just that the world doesn't end -- nothing happens.

The main purpose of this endless talk about "security" is to scare people into compliance.
People won't pay more, or they'd already charge more. Especially when it's trivial to pirate. The only reason people started paying for music after about 20 years of rampant piracy is that streaming came along and offered a better user experience than loading up your phone or MP3 player with files that you had to download and organize yourself. It's easier to pay $10/mo than deal with that. But if the price goes much higher, people will either find technical solutions that make piracy easier (e.g. sonarr and better media apps) or they'll stick with free tiers and put up with ads.
You'd feel that.
Yes!

Or how about we go a step further and demand Apple open source everything so we can tweak just the parts that we want of our own phones?
They always seemed pretty off to me. If you read between the lines on their hiring page it seems to be saying 'Look at how many webapps our small team cranks out as we desperately try to reach product market fit'.

Anyways my story: Got auto reachout from Shun. I made it partway down the funnel after providing a pretty thoughtful (in my opinion) application.
I took the automated code exam and figured I didn't do so well.

1-2 months down the line, another hiring thread, another auto email from Shun.
I replied fairly salty, saying "It's great you've reconsidered!" then proceeding to say at least have the decency to remove rejected candidates from your auto emails.
Grid access fees should be paid by the hour rather than the month. If I need the grid for 72 hours a month, then bill me at a 90% discount.
Are we speaking of patents or the product made from those patents? Are we speaking of how capitalism enforces permanent growth and profit requirements upon us so that most anything that can be monetised will be monetised.

Even feeding the homeless is monetised by the state[1] - in the form of fines.

I for one can no longer distinguish between capitalistic greed and profiteering via patents, food, housing, warmth, freedoms, user data, ....

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/texas-volunt...
I believe the advice about using a TLD you control outside and inside is mostly to prevent takeover on the outside that could affect the inside.

But you can still have completely separate DNS for the inside. Using a shared DB for both would probably be recommended to avoid conflicts.
Why would I need a phone to have a bank account?

Of course I have a bank account, and I can do online banking on my laptop if needed.
I was connecting your original comment to your reply:

> Apple is doing everything they possibly can to suck every single penny out of it, at huge economic burden

The advantages you list, which are supposedly creating huge economic burden, are actually the very reasons that Apple is a huge economic success both for itself and its customers. Many people have decided they get more value by not having these things. And people like you who do want these things have great alternatives .

This is the definition of functional market and is how economic value is created.

EDIT: sorry, thought it was COGlory who replied. The rationale is the same.