skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I qualify here, but I typically work just a few hours a week. I travel with my family most of the year, renting ABB after ABB for months at a time, and not for work. I also have a permanent home that I don't rent out. I'm an official employee and collect a biweekly salary. A handful of people report to me. Some have the same freedom I have. All have access to me for questions and guidance any time they want. I occasionally check in with them, maybe once or twice a month, just to see how they are feeling. They rarely need help with something. When I'm in town we hang out. I occasionally have calls with execs for meetings, not usually more than 4-6 times a year. If you're asking how I did this, here it is:

I started by automating systems in my department. This bought me a lot of time. I was down to around 15-30 hours a week. If my phone rang, I saw it as an opportunity to eliminate future phone calls by fixing or automating whatever caused the call. If it was something that required manual effort, I made it a one click procedure for whoever called me. They'd rather push a button than pick up the phone. After a couple of years, I was only working 10 hours a week. I still wanted more freedom, and I was bored. I thought about taking a second job, but I realized I was worth more to myself than the money of another job. I wanted time. This is critical. Realizing that I want time, not money, caused me to focus on the right thing.

I invited people who had no jobs and no skills to my house and spent the next two years training them to automate systems. I did this for free. Typically one and sometimes two at a time. We all became friends. When someone was good enough, I hired them. If I got push back from my superiors about why we needed to hire, I would ask, "Do we want this to be as smooth as the last thing I did?" Some people quit part way through learning. This was frustrating, but it's a price you have to pay to get really really good people who trust you.

The handful who stayed earn better than average full time salaries, work 10 hours a week most weeks, sometimes none at all, and maybe a couple of weeks a year they buckle down to rebuild something, or change something for a customer. They don't carry second jobs.

The last part is also very important. If you or your team carries a second job, then you don't care enough about the importance of free time to invest a ton of time when it matters to meticulously automate the shit out of everything, down to the finest detail.

There is almost nothing to call my department about. Everything almost runs itself, including my people, and their people.

Culture is key. I don't run the company, but I run the culture in my little corner of it. It's a culture of making time, not money. And, not just for ourselves, for others. When we make time for other people they don't have any reason to care when we are "AWOL."
Telling how "AI-like" an image is is done by seeing how well it completes a round-trip through the VAE.

It will either match a known VAE well, or be an image that's altered enough (jpeg noise, photoshopping in post, etc) to not match the output of a VAE.

And meanwhile the "loss system" for training AI idea is still hobbled by how the image generating AI systems are all using VAEs. At best, you've swapped one VAE for another. Just another new VAE to add to the list of VAEs to check.
I‘m not aware of any accurate noninvasive device on the market. Recently there‘s been an influx of fake watches that claim to do so, but they mostly make up the values. The linked article mentions that research is ongoing - can you point me where such a device is being sold?
There is no deal, you’re effectively modding an os in unintended ways
Yes, I read that. Solution for the time being ...

And hopefully though updates to the tools with regards to the security issues by itself keeps it all good.
> The Flight Data Subsystem was an innovation in computing when it was developed five decades ago. It was the first computer on a spacecraft to use volatile memory. Most of NASA's missions operate with redundancy, so each Voyager spacecraft launched with two FDS computers. But the backup FDS on Voyager 1 failed in 1982.

I wonder why they chose volatile memory: Were there performance demands that required it? How much did non-volatile memory cost back then?
I'm not sure "correct" engineering really fits UEFIRC, somehow :p

But if it's fun, go ahead! Perhaps it's helpful for axle too. :)
The argument is still When not If. But yes, the timelines were originally optimistic (and seemed so.)

But self driving cars are inevitable on some timeline. Their advantages over self-driving are simply too significant to ignore. And the space will be insanely valuable in the long run.

We've seen this pattern before. Video phones were predicted back in the 50s as being "any decade now but I would take 50 years or so to be "everywhere".

Some things are inherently fanciful (flying personal transport for all) because of physics, but there are no such limits with self-driving cars.
I had a manager who I didn't see (digitally or in person) for 3 months at a stretch, and he was one of the best I ever had.

Small company that used to be bigger and we needed to finalize a migration that'd been in progress for like 7 years. It kept being delayed by leadership who'd get distracted, so the final 20% would never get done, we'd build more tech debt, and then the 20% turned into 23%. We'd argue to pay down the debt, get 1.5 weeks to tackle it, get it down to 20% remaining again and then delay for another couple months. Repeat this for years and you have a treading water situation for years.

This manager got hired, saw this was holding the company back (spend too high since 2 systems of infra and 2 places to wrangle features) and lobbied hard to finish it off. Said it'll take 7 months but we'd cut our spend by like 30%. Leadership agreed. Manager kicked off the project and then just disappeared.

Leadership then got distracted and wanted new things. Manager would re-appear for discussions EXCLUSIVELY with leadership, convince them to stay the course, and then disappear again. This happened repeatedly, probably every couple weeks, but he only interacted with leadership, firewalling us from them.

This manager had probably 3 meetings total with us the team over the course of the project because he trusted us to carry it out. Each meeting was him saying, "it looks like you're all making great progress, let's keep it that way." Then disappear again.

We had two of those meetings after the start meeting, and the final meeting at month 7 was "hooray, you did it, everything's implemented, all traffic's migrated, all error rates are well within tolerances, and we've turned off the old machines, saving us loads of money. Congratulations! Here's a nice gift and a bonus, let's celebrate!"

We did, and then not long after he left for greener pastures. Leadership loved him, the team loves him, but he saw his time had come. Love you Ahti, you were probably the best manager I ever had!
Funny that Y.A. Gagarin [Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961] wasn't chosen until a little later, in 1960.

Less funny that V.V. Tereshkova [Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963], chosen in 1962, is now in the Duma ... representing ER.
It’s a business difference, not a conceptual one. No one cares if you want to fire up Secret of Monkey Island on your iPad. One company in particular really does care if you want to play Super Mario World on your iPhone. That’s the difference.
Judging by replies here should really be a "why are you still on windows" askHN.

Besides other reasons here, when you have decades of experience on how things work, hundreds of little utils and tools... and you want to finally concentrate more on productive work in your life and not start the whole hurdle anew.

Maybe if a perfect, seamless VM environment would exist, but that still leaves the HW problems.
> you can bypass the block by simply renaming the executable to something else

what a theater!
He is altering the deal. Pray that he don't alter it any further.
it really is f-ing over for the US. Good thing we have AI though without it China would 100% be the sole superpower by 2035
Afaik the transmission energy of a cell phone is limited to a maximum of 1 or 2 Watts (depending on which frequency it operates on). This power is a maximum that will only be used if the reception is bad.

In the wavie scene (people who are paranoid about radio waves controlling them) shielding those devices is a typical approach — this is also where the meme of the tinfoil hat comes from. Ironically that shielding makes your cellphone operate with the maximum transmission power at all times.
I agree.

The very reason why those tools exist though is because there's a sizeable enough demand. What's under question is that 'unintention', all the more so when features are being removed, without leaving some settings in for power users. Some user experience changes seem backward steps.
Do you think that is absurd? Never visit Brazil.
it's also possible they had very limited vision and used very high magnification, where indentation might be actively unhelpful since you'd just see lots of blank space at times
Not an ounce of ego in that man.
The other alternative to blocking is, of course, to offer good UI with robust customization capabilities so others could change "the nature of " their "software" to something more simple and less crash-prone
> it's likely easy to break any encryption that was used in the 1970s

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Some things encrypted now are intended to be secure for 50 years.
> "You've forgotten about the most popular OS on this planet?"

Android? That's Linux-based.
> What's the difference? It's unavoidable that long term if assisted suicide is normalized (and even endorsed by the healthcare system) more people who wouldn't have chosen that option on their own will decide to kill themselves (or ask a doctor to do it).

What does that matter? Aren’t we all supposed to be entitled to have that control over our own lives?
I have been playing around with various sensors on the skin, one that is interesting is IR absorption which can read glucose as well.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772583/
I got some interesting results with combining sensors and using ML to identify different labels, even managed to identify left and write arms?!?
I made a few notes here https://nix64bit.com/identification.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1awhyhb/why_has...
> It’s doubtful that there’s enough processing or memory headroom for any decent encryption.

Maybe they use a one-time pad. :) I'm only half joking (imagining the person who has spent the last 40+ years on Voyager with a book). Why not? How much memory and cpu would be required?
let's just adopt stardates ;-)
One massive FPGA? In the future: nanobots that can reassemble to a better design. Maybe you don’t even need to complete the design, just ship the nanobots and do a 0-day patch when they reach their target.
Even if not a lawsuit, people will judge it themselves and vote with their feet.
Most were from military families and there was a bit of a war around the time they were enlisting.
Can Just My Code help if it is precisely my code that I want to skip over? I believe it does not -- IIUC it works based on modules i.e. the DLL that contains the machine code. IOW it doesn't even help if I move the "zero-cost" stuff to a separate source file -- templates and other stuff that have to be instanciated or inlined won't be separable from the code that I want to debug based on the module they're running in.

> Also, there are scenarios where debugging without optimizations isn't an option.

There are scenarios where debugging isn't an option in the first place. Doesn't mean that I should have to suffer in the typical case where debugging with no or only light optimizations is perfectly viable.

An acceptable solution I guess would be to have a [DebuggerHidden] function attribute as I found for C#. Didn't find one for C++.
Well, this sounds like the opposite of overengineered, but definitely terrible
Apparently ∆ is an extremely inappropriate (topic). Just type a single ∆ and you'll get a novels' worth. I actually feel pretty bad about it, now..
Digg v4. I started at Digg as employee 30 or something close to that. When v4 was being designed I was (among others) very much not supportive of the concept. I did the work they asked of me and about ~4 months before launch I was fired.

Some Digg colleagues reached out asking why I decided to leave… since that is what digg internally announced. This is when I understand a number of others before me were also fired and not just “deciding to pursue other opportunities”.

EDIT: to be clear I don’t fault them for firing me. People not onboard for a decision made by leadership in a startup are fair game to be fired. You need people to believe in the product and I definitely wasn’t a believer.

Anyway I had 60-90days (can’t remember deadline) to exercise my options or let them expire. I decided to let them expire since I thought v4 was a bad direction. Honestly I was very stressed about this decision but I went with my gut. Saved me half a house worth of money.
Paxlovid

Pax = noun.

A tablet decorated with a sacred figure (as of Christ) and sometimes ceremonially kissed by participants at mass.

A Pfizer funded study.

It must be accurate and unbiased then.

After a few years we will have something similar to the old SSRI story.

The Research article:

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors versus placebo in patients with major depressive disorder. A systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis.

Just change SSRIs to Paxlovid and depressive to covid.

SSRIs might have statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, but all trials were at high risk of bias and the clinical significance seems questionable. SSRIs significantly increase the risk of both serious and non-serious adverse events. The potential small beneficial effects seem to be outweighed by harmful effects.
> We should be equally concerned about the fauna and flora with which we share our planet.

For the plants we eat or that are producing the oxygen we breath, sure.
Someone is salty as hell, chill bro. Also, calling Microsoft a company that complies with EU law is kind of funny. I guess they must be constantly fined due to some prejudice?
Google's quantum computer suggests that wormholes are real (2022)
SecureDrop Workstation is based on Qubes OS. It removes the need for a separate ‘air gapped’ machine

Qubes is awesome, but it's no substitute for an air gap.

This is the same publication that broke the Snowden story. Their adversary collects hardware backdoors like baseball cards. This is not smart.

I would think twice before making a whistleblower disclosure to an organization that thinks this way.
Redundancy is a very good option, but the "right" level of modularization helps too. You probably don't want to make everything out of FPGAs, but if your individual modules can be flexibly rewired on the fly and they are granular enough in their functionality to build new things, that adds yet another level of redundancy, as you might be able to replace a broken thing with the right combination of working modules.
Maybe I'm too old, but since when is simply using another software as opposed to built-ins considered modding? Most of these seem like replacements to me.

If doing that little is now considered "modding" a desktop OS, we've fucked up somewhere. Even phone OSes like Android let you download replacements of built-ins (such as another launcher, file manager, photo app) right from their app store.
Maybe but people carry the same DNA for their whole life. And it's common to see people doing the same mistakes over and over again, the same mistakes their parents did and that their children will do.
It followed a well trodden design path.

See #9 Vehicle: https://www.boredpanda.com/kid-drawings-things-i-have-drawn-...
It's my favourite tool to average out the individually shitty results of mainstream search engines into something vaguely usable.
Not quite.

I never worked in those ERP companies, but a few times I've been on the receiving end, working at companies undergoing a large migration.

It is very often stuff that doesn't really matter, is highly inefficient, and requires small changes everywhere in the system. Death by thousand papercuts.

There is no incentive from both sides to change: the company wants to keep modifying to get $$$, employees don't want to change how they work (because change is often stressful), and the person paying the bills is not getting the full picture.

If there's anything that is actually really "unique" (in a good way), then you spend money. Often this means not customizing the ERP, but actually writing new software that integrates with it.
R. I. P.

The owner is no more.
The reason voyagers went so fast and so far was the particular arrangement of planets in the solar systems at launch time. A number of maneuvers and gravitational slingshots were used. It may not be possible for a number of years to do this sort of thing again. And without this, you’d need a much bigger rocket than is possible to build.
> Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.

Intentionally attacking a civilian target (a family in their home) without warning.

The what I'd do is a seventy year answer. It's immaterial to the occurrence of war crimes.
The other difference is partly a consequence of the wide field of view. That thing has a huge front lens, which lets in a massive amount of light, so the brightness of the projected image on the sensor is much higher than a telescope that has a zoomed-in field of view. That means it is able to use a relatively short exposure and still see things in the sky that are fairly dim.

To use numbers to compare to any other camera, it has a 3.2 gigapixel sensor with a diameter of 640mm, and the "lens" (actually several mirrors) has a focal length of about 10m and a diameter of about 8m, giving it an f-ratio of f/1.2, which is very impressive (although the central part of the "lens" is obstructed, giving it a light-collecting ability more like an f/1.5 lens).
We're already getting this particular dystopia with computer vision systems. The systems aren't particularly good, but that doesn't entirely matter to the people setting them off: their target lists aren't particularly well-curated either. We're a few hundred years past the point where technology is ever the bottleneck when it comes to making people dead.

Extract from Self-Driving Issues by Randall Munroe. https://xkcd.com/1958

> "I guess it's just that most people aren't murderers?" "Oh, right. I always forget." "An underappreciated component of our road safety system."
A fantastic TV miniseries!!! My favourite is the episode about the guys from Grumman building the LEM, which is filled with the best kind of engineering one-liners and zingers I've yet seen on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQeqMaHVYs

"Hey, let's help him see it!"
WebStorm 2024.1: Sticky Lines, Quick Doc Improvements, Full Line Completion
I'm particularly excited about local LLM based line completion, as I've found their python equivalent to be really helpful (particularly as someone that doesn't do a huge amount of python)
and from my experience, explorer can go haywire with certain file types (eg.: Opus) and merely sleeping and starting the machine again, after a couple of uses.

And some windows machines from the windows 7 era can freeze program by program after some days just being on. On windows 10 you can replicate it by just pulling outages until you see this effect, or someing worse.
Her are my two cents.

For all type and size of the businesses, having an IAM governance is important. This way password policies can be set up and enforced.

When the SaaS landscape starts growing, this governance becomes more important and mission critical. The attack surface of the business expands with the number of passwords needed to manage by the employees.

In the above picture SSO brings significant relief to IT and Finance managers with less management hassle and reduced risk scores on the business side.

For the employees, SSO integrations gives more streamlined and smooth experience.
> "Two there should be. No more, no less. One to embody power, the other to crave it."

Recall, only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Well this is just clearly wrong, no? If all electrical conductors in the power grid were suddenly zero resistance, we would only get ~10% more electricity available than today. That's not enough to have such large consequences. We would still be stuck in scaling hell for renewables for several decades.
Fun fact: The equivalent concept in CS terms is "backpressure".
I think my problem was that I used Beets to organise my mp3s a long time ago - maybe 2011. It didn't write the ReleaseGroup because that might not have been present for all albums on MusicBrainz at the time.

It still did a great job and Picard nicely filled in the blanks.
Companies and management would rather a slow controlled descent into the ground than unexpected success. They balance their risk at the portfolio level not at the company level.

During good times focus on your core and then peter out. Just follow a nice parabolic arc.

A lot of success is just timing and attempting to fight all threats look foolish. A remember, for every up and comer that “we all saw coming” there were lots that didn’t make it. If you waste time fighting those you wasted money.
Contrast this with the "old" Apple in 2005/6, I could write a game, put it up for download as a DMG file

You still can? The binary has to be notarized, but Apple doesn’t take a cut, you can run your own store and sell a game.

For example, hooking into the kernel is now very difficult - apps like Little Snitch running on Sonoma have a much harder job.

For most people that’s a good thing. I had many family members that had all kinds of crap installed, including dubious kexts. If you are a more knowledgeable user, you can still disable most protections. Also, about little snitch specifically, obdev now sells are more user-friendly version in the App Store that uses the new user space filtering API. Every kext is a possible compromise with access to kernel space. It’s good that they are deprecating them in favor of user space drivers.
> you would have found it ethical.

not having lived that era, it cannot be said which side i would've been on - because it would've depended on which side i was born, and the circumstances i find myself in. The truth is that which ever "ethical" belief that benefits me the most will have been the belief i followed.

Most people believe that their beliefs are ethical, but are in reality, just post hoc rationalizations of decisions that benefit themselves (knowingly or not). I am just being clear, rather than try to hide this fact.
It's not really anyone saying "you're doing the task wrong", it's more like "you're doing it only so slightly differently that we need a few months to write customizations for it. We'll send you the bill".

Those big ERPs are not really blank canvases, but when you need those micro-customizations in the wrong place, they can become one.

End users involved in the integration don't really want to learn new processes or even do things slightly different, as they know that changing process often involves burning a lot of political capital and they often lack awareness to know that "just using the ERP the way it's intended" is cheaper. And consultants are experts in finding a chance to perform those micro changes. It's a perfect marriage.
Well, if we are going down tiny details about what to skip, there are lots of C preprocessor stuff, standard library functions implementated in crazy ways for ISO/POSIX compliance, and own abstractions/functions, that I might also want to skip over.