skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, memento mori. Not entirely related, but I was diagnosed with a complete AV block over a year ago, but refused pacemaker implantation. Just reminds me that if even semingly healthy people can die like this, then I have no hope for the future, not at all.
The iPhone had a very clear path forward. In particular, while it's success wasn't guaranteed the market (high spec phones) was already sizeable and people were paying substantial money on it.

The Vision Pro is none of that and they'll have to build the market (a non gaming ARish headset) by themselves.
Stuxnet targeted the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz run by the Iranian government.

When does the US attack private enterprise?
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God I'm sorry for you and your family.
I can't believe a Cookie Store API has not been officially implemented yet.

How can it be 2024 and we're still having to parse a huge ugly string to get a cookie by name?
I’ve had company devices for over 20 years. I’m currently on the way back to my hotel.

I refuse to carry more than one phone or one laptop, and I sure ain’t brining a personal device into a country I wouldnt go to on vacation.
> I kept employees for decades, under conditions of significantly less pay and perks, than many other companies.

You sound like the sort of manager I look for when I'm evaluating a company to work for. As a dev, I value good management more highly than great pay or perks.
After 30+ years as an engineer without reports I now spend more time motivating my managers to make them do what I want them to do vs. the other way around. I'll need to invert the advice in this post (if I can figure out what it's trying to say).
Yes.

There's a lot more to life than money; an unpopular stance for this crowd.
Scale models, Vitruvius, oral history, geometry (an applied math)
Alas there is no 'in general'. Acquisition is often the secret sauce due to, among other challenges, the extremely tight alignment requirement -- thermal shifts, satellite wobbling, etc, are all critical to manage.

On wavelengths, if you're trying to hit 100gbit+, you're probably having to use coherent optics, and there aren't many technology options or wavelengths on the market.
I'm sure we do. I don't agree that we attack private civilian enterprise.
Yeah, this is ridiculous. This guy is trying to claim both the Intel has good power consumption numbers, and that Apple should have added more fans to their Intel laptops. Has Intel discovered the secret of creating heat without using energy? Because according to the laws of physics I was taught, the need to festoon your computer with numerous fans means that... you're dissipating tons of energy.
They mention Zero Trust, yet you can gain access to applications with just a single bearer token?

Am I missing something here?

There’s no machine cert used? AuthN tokens aren’t cryptographically bound?

This doesn’t meet my definition of ZT, it seems more like “we don’t have a VPN”
We were software imaging pipeline (and device control/SDKs, early on). We worked on Photo stuff. The scopes were done by Instruments, who worked near us.
Interesting project! Thank you for open sourcing and sharing. Agree that local and embedded analytics are an increasing trend, I see it too.

A couple of questions:

* I’m curious what the difficulties were in the implementation. I suspect it is quite a challenge to implement this support in the current SQLite architecture, and would curious to know which parts were tricky and any design trade-off you were faced with.

* Aside from ease-of-use (install extension, no need for a separate analytical database system), I wonder if there are additional benefits users can anticipate resulting from a single system architecture vs running an embedded OLAP store like DuckDB or clickhouse-local / chdb side-by-side with SQLite? Do you anticipate performance or resource efficiency gains, for instance?

* I am also curious, what the main difficulty with bringing in a separate analytical database is, assuming it natively integrates with SQLite. I may be biased, but I doubt anything can approach the performance of native column-oriented systems, so I'm curious what the tipping point might be for using this extension vs using an embedded OLAP store in practice.

Btw, would love for you or someone in the community to benchmark Stanchion in ClickBench and submit results! (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/)

Disclaimer: I work on ClickHouse.
Here is a tutorial for correct naming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Then, the advertisement worked.

- Insist that you have better integrity than your competitors

- share a few operational investigations after your latest security event

what cloudflare doesnt do is provide their SOC risk analysis as a PCI/DSS payment card processor. Cloudflare doesnt explain why they ignored/failed to identify the elevated accounts or how those accounts became compromised to begin with. They just explain remediation without accountability.

They mention a third-party audit was conducted, but thats not because they care about you. Its because PCI/DSS mandates when an organization of any level experiences a data breach or cyber-attack that compromises payment card information, it needs to pass a yearly on-premise audit to ensure PCI compliance. if they didnt, major credit houses would stop processing their payments.
It was an analogy about how stupid it is to say a markov chain is “just like an LLM.”
Why would you want to be fired when you could just quit?
Vehicle and gas taxes cost the same when driving on an empty road at 2am and a rush hour LA freeway.

They're completely irrelevant for this discussion.
My ISP actually uses microwave links! I get consistent gigabit speeds with them.
Tim Cook confirms Apple's generative AI features are coming 'later this year'
It’s not clear to me whether this is a “I kept wages down” story or “people stayed with the company because they liked me even though they had offers with larger numbers on them”.
Heat is Not because of friction but compression of air
You might be interested in trying our Easy Data Transform software. It is general purpose data wrangling software, rather than security specific. But it can do base64 and url encoding (in the 'Decode' transform) as well as 65 other transforms (join, dedupe etc) and it can handle multi-million row datasets. Plus in my (biased) opinion, it has a much nicer UI. Not free though.
Also false.

Would you bet your life that you could demotivate me and prevent me from sweeping my apartment floors tomorrow morning? What about demotivating me and keeping me from eating dinner tonight?

You can create a situation where I can become demotivated but ultimately I set my own level of motivation.
I think the problem is then you eventually get SEOification. I suppose you can just reset every now and again. Maybe like give a training program to get SEO people real jobs.
> I figured they would be going towards something like a more refined/perfected version of google glass.

Long term, when the tech is there to do that, sure.

2017:

> Apple CEO Tim Cook said that it will be a while before the technology available for augmented reality glasses rises to Apple’s standards, according to British Vogue.

“There are rumours and gossip about companies working on that, and we obviously don’t talk about what we work on. But today I can tell you that the technology itself doesn’t exist to do that in a quality way,” Cook told Vogue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/apple-ar-glasses-tim-cook-sa...

They keep iterating on it in-house, and keep finding that the tech still isn't ready.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-glasses
> Modtap isn't modkeys, seriously, just google, I know you're confused, and since you keep ignoring what I write or replace my words with your wrong ones, my simple words won't help alleviate your confusion

Don't use google as a verb, better alternatives exist. I search, and it's only 1 vowel so easier on the tongue. Anyways, setup modtap in your keyboard or OS to trigger some key, and bind that key in vim? It isn't like it's universal functionality, I've heard of it but never encountered in any program.

But that wasn't why I brought up modkeys, latency came up as a problem in insert mode right? You claim modtap is the solution for that, I don't use modifiers at all in insert mode, but there are some even in the default config. One that comes to mind is entering normal mode for the next motion then returning to insert mode. Can be useful but rarely, esc is easier.

Modtap or not is not the solution for the latency we were talking about, normal mods do that just as well. Are you following?

> (also ironic mention of emacs pinky when you're using pinky for one of the most frequent commands)

Not at all, on the contrary it proves my point. I moved it _because_ I was getting Emacs pinky. Problem -> solution.

> So what's your Vimium command to scroll down by two paragraphs and then select the next two sentences?

I don't scroll in paragraphs, I use d/u for half-page down/up, j/k for normal scroll. Hit v for visual mode then it's just standard vim motions. I don't really understand the question, obviously some things are missing if that's where you're going. I'm not going to run :keywordprg in my browser for example but that's fine, stop moving the goalposts. I love it for f/F to follow links, / to search and so on, and I don't even use half the features.

> If you like neovim and the terminal so much

I was trying to be helpful and answer a simple question but you seem to have a really bad day. Use it don't use it, I don't care. The community is fine without your energy.

> So how do you bind left control p to run one command, and right control p to run another?

I don't, I use both interchangeably to reduce strain on my fingers. As you mention yourself ergonomics are important. I avoid using modifiers unless I have to, shift is an example that is difficult to live without. They're also interchangeable.

If you really need it then work around it by replacing at the OS or keyboard level if yours supports it. Edge case that to me feels like inventing a problem to have something to whine about. What other common programs that you use support that feature? If you're the power-user you want to be you'll figure it out, everything is possible.
After just 30 minutes I've crafted an Apple Crumble Mudslide. My job is done.
Obscuring RF Noise to Combat RF Fingerprinting Surveillance [pdf]
'RF fingerprinting' is a process used to uniquely identify RF devices based on hardware imperfections that show up in the RF signal. RF fingerprinting is used by both the US military and adversaries to surveil opposing RF assets. This tech is also used by private US companies to collect location tracking data of users' devices.

Here I present an experimental idea, development and commercialization plan, technical implementation, and risk assessment for a device modification to obfuscate the RF fingerprint: Obscuring RF Noise to Combat RF Fingerprinting Surveillance by Adversaries

The main idea is to introduce a hardware / thermal random noise generator after digital-to-analog conversion to hide hardware-induced RF identifiers.

To move this project forward, I'm looking for a technical co-founder with a background in electrical engineering. All experience levels welcome, including capable EE undergrads. If you know anybody who might be interested, please have them reach out!
Except that the author of one of the best of Holmes pastiche novels, Nicholas Meyer, titled one of his books "The Seven Percent Solution."
A modest proposal: perhaps if you were to teach your userbase why their thinking is objectively incorrect the frequency of these spectacles would decrease over time.
Yes, the base station rotates the magnetic field, though the third option you mentioned sounds very futuristic. We could be a magnet-bender!

Feel free to ask us more questions so we can all sleep soundly tonight :)
Yes, this took me back 25 years! My favorite use of these was by Upper Deck, the company that sells (sold?) baseball trading cards. Their 1999-2000 PowerDeck series was these baseball card size CD-ROMs that presented something like a DVD movie menu and could play a couple of highlight reels of the player.

http://www.baseballcardpedia.com/index.php/1999_Upper_Deck_P...

http://www.baseballcardpedia.com/index.php/2000_Upper_Deck_P...
It would look like the HF radio bouncing off the ionosphere. I have contacted someone in Japan from Oregon. The downside of HF is that the bandwidth is low with 30MHz across the entire band.

There was company recently wanting to do high-frequency trading on HF because of the quickest path.
Whatevs. I won't get into it. I've been called all sorts of evil names, here, because of my experience. I won't bother giving it much bandwidth.

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> If you think there's more to life than money, then why are you so proud of underpaying your team members?

HN has a rather ... predictable ... zeitgeist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo

you're welcome
It doesn’t get into it too much on pages 14 and 15, but it indeed suggests that they probably exclusively use the “intra-orbital” links closer to the poles to get data to a satellite where the inter-orbital links are more practical.

I believe Iridium had way more downlinks than they used to pre-bankruptcy. I guess volume constraints were less of an issue, so ok to hop around more in space.
> “They’re not able to collect, and then they don’t pay you because they would have paid you based on the appointment that you conducted. Right? But because they were not able to collect because they were so inefficient, you end up not getting paid.”

I wonder if this is legally wage theft? Based on my layman's quick reading I think yes in California, but no federally unless it brings you below minimum wage. Imagine if you're a factory worker, and the warehouse storing all the widgets burns down. So they tell you that they're retroactively not paying you for last month's labor because they lost the product of it, independent of anything you did.
It's interesting what you leap to accuse me of.

Please read my words more carefully.
Hence the unseriousness of the code. Like I said, in real code you'd use pyca/cryptography.
Can you share any info about the project domain?
Not until just now I didn't. Do they not have a smartphone? A personal laptop? I'm waiting for something to build as I'm typing this right now. On a separate computer. I would never go on Hacker News on my work computer.

Why would I use a device to do personal things that they MITM everything I do on it? Privacy is too important to me to give it away like that. I'm sure all traffic on the corporate network is logged. Why open myself up for grounds for termination if my company hits hard times and wants to lay people off?
My understanding is that trade in goods within the Single Market has worked very well, but trade in services not so much - not least due to language barriers. This becomes an issue because service based businesses (which includes law, finance, and creative industries, as well as hairdressing) also benefit from economies of scale - witness the relative success of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, with an immediate market of ~350MM people.
Nah this tech will poison the web. People don't know what it is and take it too seriously.
Agree to disagree I guess. The fact that it's his project makes it uninteresting even if the tech would have been alright in the hands of someone less harmful.

If you aren't catching things like his signal boosting of literal nazis on Twitter, your media sources are garbage. (Also is Gawker even still a thing?)
Latest? Didn't Marx say that the ruling classes slept around? But I suppose they didn't acknowledge it.
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Proprietary Browser based on Chromium ignores user wishes, diddling with another Proprietary Browser based on Chromium.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fc...
Yeah, slow DNS can look like a slow connection, but there are some subtle differences. images/elements will pop differently than if it's just a slow connection.

Had a wicked issue where a firewall was inspecting DNS requests and causing them to take almost 10 seconds to complete. Was hell on the SIP phones, and browsing the Internet was... Interesting.
Perhaps they pay for a commercial license?

> Q3. Can I buy a license for myself, or do I have to ask my company to buy it for me?
> Yes, you can buy a license for yourself; just put your name in the company > field. You can use such a license to work for any company.

https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Commercial+lic...
If you think there's more to life than money, then why are you so proud of underpaying your team members?
> but I'd love to know what internal Apple politics around web standards made them focus so much on CSS and a few quality of life things, but completely ignores what developers have been clamoring for in many respects.

This is stuff that developers are clamoring for, but maybe just different developers than you.

(-webkit-)backdrop-filter was such a godsend, and a massive pain that it took so long to go through the standards process after Apple was shipping it fine. Even then Google's implementation was still pretty buggy for a while.

CSS Scroll Snap is great, removing the need for weirdo javascript carousels, giving more native scrolling experiences on the web.

The ironic part is that despite the criticism, I think capabiltiies make websites feel more 'native' than JSON Module Scripts. My impression is the Apple focuses on web APIs that impact the user experience, which generally leans more on the CSS side.
It is surprising to hear that Russia is doing something good for America.
Maybe I couldn't demotivate you when it comes to your personal stuff, but I bet I could demotivate you in the workplace.

Well, maybe not you -- you might be an exceptional person in this regard -- but the majority of people.
To me what's missing in this discussion is the competitors already bringing working products in the space.

Meta already has a context aware glass product that is limited and flawed but also paves the way for a magic product 10 to 15 iterations down the line.

If we look at Apple's recent track record, we have the Apple Watch as a success, and Apple TV, HomePod as mostly living deads. Apple coming late to a market and crush it isn't the main pattern anymore IMHO.
Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265
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I'm curious whether this is any indication that WebKit is going to start catching up on WebAssembly features: they're currently pretty far behind both Chrome and Firefox, lacking big important ones like multiple memories and garbage collection.
Putting them in an opensource os also helps demonstrate that they aren’t trying to be anti competitive.
Is there a solution to the trust problem when installing apps?
It seems like there is no great solution. You can install from Google Play Store but then you have to trust Google which is the USA gov which have proven to be corrupt and criminals and constantly lying to us.

You can install from a different repository of apps such as F-droid or any other FOSS repository. But that means you must trust the managers of that repository who are building the apps from source code with their own keys which means they have the opportunity to modify it in secret, maybe adding some module, and we wouldn't know. So we would have the same problem as we have with Google Play Store but now we shift the trust problem to this other repository's developers.

You can use another frontend to Play Store but we will have to trust Google, it just means we dont need a Google account. Also we need to trust Aurora store if we install with APK file because the devs could add some malicious module before building the apk file, so we won't know that by looking at the source code they have published. And if we install Aurora store from F-droid then we have to trust F-droid instead. So same trust problem no matter what.

We can also choose to just trust the developers of each app by installing the apps directly from the devs by downloading the APK file but then the trust problem is moved to each developer instead. We don't know if they are adding malicious code before building.

So no matter how we install apps, we will never know really, there's always a trust problem.
Maybe the best thing to do is to isolate each app as much as possible. Create a different user profile for each app. And then decide on a case by case basis who is most trustworthy when it comes to which method of installing the app, but no matter what there will be a trust problem.

Or do i have something wrong or missing something?
Yes I was referring those rounds of layoffs. A generous severance isn't a job. Nor does it allow those on work-visas to remain.
Not a complaint, genuinely asking, therefore does not break the rules.
these were service accounts used by third parties to provide jira integrations, not a user account
> * Thinks string theory is wrong (in good company but doesn't prove anything).

String theory has had 40 years to show something -- anything -- for its claims. At this point it's expensive, fancy mathematical LARPing.

It, like quantum computing and the amyloid-beta theory of Alzheimer's etiology, needs to see its funding diverted elsewhere to seed other promising lines of research.
try "make epub" :)
I have encountered a problem on Android app, even if I have starred words in conversation they are still not there in "Progress -> Vocabulary". Also, would be great if I could easily import cards from there to Anki decks, but I could do it myself if there was API access to it.
Stories about how you went to narnia and back may be useful to a future contributor who finds themselves in narnia. This is very likely not the last time that an invalid byte sequence will show up in one of the source files in this tree, and if it happens again, it may be good to see the symptoms in the git log.
I dont need early access, but I am super curious, can you tell me more about what youre building, I can infer and I like the images that pop into my head, but I'd like to hear more. (infers-structure as a service)