skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CEO tells the Director of Engineering how long a time a feature "could be built" in? A new one, they suddenly pulled out of their asses too?

Why even have a Director of Engineering position then?
What is technology behind this? Is it continuation of OpenAI's JukeBox or something diffusion or transformer based? Any influential papers?
> would severely disrupt Apple manufacturing and sales, and probably tank its stock price

And the whole thing becoming public knowledge wouldn't cause that? Anyway... realistically they'd take some "measures" to make sure this never happens again while staying in the same factories and then probably accelerate their plan to move somewhere else long term.
Yep, same. I find it funny that I'm apparently un-emailable by anyone on Proton. Good thing no one actually uses email for communication.
Also a non-American (Brit). Just means something unusual.

According to the 2007 Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, the phrase came from baseball terminology, referring to a play in which the ball is thrown from the area covered by the left fielder to either home plate or first base, surprising the runner. Variations include "out in left field" and simply "left field"
There is also a video on his yt channel going through the process (and pain) of creating the backport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8
Is this an externality? It benefits people who own cars.

(It's far from clear of course that public transit would be missing, there used to be public transit in small towns before everybody got cars in many places. Horses are also unlikely to replace bikes.)
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> Before someone tells me to fix my
robots.txt, this is a content farm so rather than being one web site
with 6,859,000,000 pages, it is 6,859,000,000 web sites each with one
page.
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I think programmers should stay away from trying to be musicians. Have you thought of some of the people that might lose their jobs because of this technology?
You do though. It's only consuming generic content from generic websites that works with ipv6 cnat. Try to actually participate in the 'net (ie, host a video game server, do some peer to peer task, port scan to explore, etc) and you find out very fast you have no ports and can't do anything.

"End devices" are not mindless consumers of content like this very naming and article suggest. They are participants in the internet, if you let them. It's a shame kids are growing up today without being able to participate. Most are going to be intellectually stunted by it.
Like most thing in Windows, the sauce is buried under layers of Registry tweaks and/or Group Policies, but enabling RemoteFX (released with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) for RDP enables both h.264/h.265 stream compression, and with additional settings changes to enforce usage of the GPU on the desktop session over RDP, you can get solid 3D acceleration. In this video from Wendell @ Level1Techs, he had 31 virtual desktop instances all running with full GPU acceleration, with RDP as the VDI client software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLK_i-TQ3kQ. As another data point, I had game developers remoting into their workstations during Quarantine, using RDP with full graphics acceleration using the same tweaks.

What the shinier VDI/Remote Desktop solutions like Sunshine+Moonlight, Parsec, Horizon, Citrix do for you is make all of this easier to set up and use. But as far as capability is concerned, RDP is quite powerful and quite capable, assuming you jump through the hoops to set it up right.
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And here you are on Hacker News.
Time is ripe for Malaysia to move upstream into designing chips
well the silicon is fabbed in Taiwan if you consider that China. Electronics are assembled in China but components originate from all over the world. Common processors are often designed in the US.... that has also been known to do a little spying.

Which is not to downplay the awesome ability of China to manufacture just about anything with incredible precision and quality.

I'm surprised Huawei used Intel with management engine after China banned it across all government machines. The Kirin 9000s might well have been a better choice. Who are they selling this to exactly, and how did they get access to intel parts?
I think fun in learning comes mostly from the "intuition reward". If you understand and _feel_ some abstract concept in an intuitive manner, you will feel happy and you will probably want more of that. So, for teachers finding ways to teach concepts that can trigger students intuition, in my experience as a student, will get more engaged students.
I mean that's your chance to train the SkyNet, take it :)
Curious you don't think Apple does supply chain checks on its hardware?
Frankly, I didn’t get the purpose of the website at first either. I guess I have an arachnid intellect.
I think he's saying that it's not a problem for him, but for OpenAI?
Make a singing quine
Could also have meant "easy" (no-brainer) to invest in, whether or not that's actually true.
Deploy $5m to 20 companies and only one of them has to hit for it all to be worth it.
> Well - note that OP uploaded a key to keys.openpgp.org, and then seemingly forgot about it and lost the private key (or at least they couldn't decrypt encrypted emails, and their email client - not Proton's - showed them as being blank). So it's not a scenario that we explicitly tested for, and not something we can unilaterally fix completely - although we can try to make it clearer for the recipient why the message was encrypted and with what key, of course.

OP claims to have no memory of having gone through the steps in the published draft standard. The steps involved are at least somewhat more rigorous than merely submitting a key and address to a database, so I'm leaning toward believing OP and questioning the database, especially since the project appears only to have been started in 2019 so completely forgetting having ever gone through such a process seems less plausible than questioning the database.

Further suspect may be the standard, itself (hence "draft"). Why it doesn't require a domain to publish a policy per address for the domain or at least publish that the domain approves usage of the policy seems a rather large oversight* given how it can break email, so this still leads me to be suspicious of Proton as draft standards should be considered "beta", and passively be explicit opt-in (no prompts - user must dig somewhere into the settings to enable).

* I've only briefly skimmed it, so maybe I missed the part covering this.
This is one of the reasons why kanban is my favorite project management methodology.

"Ah, new highest priority feature. Lets do a mini discovery session and it looks like this work can be represented with 20 sticky notes. Our historical team velocity is 10 sticky notes every two weeks. So we'll probably be done in four weeks. If we take down all the existing work in progress. Lets go to each existing sticky and you can confirm that we can stop working on it."

The stakeholders are still allowed to make decisions, but (hopefully) it forces them to be realistic and understand what they're asking the team to do.
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This is still too cynical. A large majority of people are not bad-faith actors but rather normal people who simply want to live their lives.

To be clear, I'm not arguing whether the lockdowns were good or bad. I do think they were necessary. I'm more arguing that we shouldn't suppress and ostracize people who disagreed with them. It's okay for people to disagree.
There is literally a guideline specifically about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
Actually I knew that and I did spot the hallucination, but I was fine with it as long as it answered the core of the question.
Early in my career, I worked with a consultant who charged time and a half after hours, and double time after midnight. Every change we did was at like 10pm, and hardly any of them ever went well. I hope to one day find a way to do what he did.
Quantum computing co D-Wave looks at the technology's past, present and future
In a SaaS product, these are different issues:

1. I am making a proxy for churn (last seen == end of subscription in this product).

2. You are looking for active users (yearly / monthly / ...)

I think your suggestion (point 2) is definitely an important view, but it doesn't conflict with the need for point 1.

Sorry if this is self-evident, I will just leave this link for reference on such metrics:
https://userpilot.com/blog/product-engagement-metrics/

In any case, I am happy to help: if you would like an export of the data, or the DB dump, let me know. And I very much looking forward for your analysis :)
If that's how it works then it would avoid the problem I mentioned, but the UX around using that to cache data internal to the site implementation sounds pretty terrible. You click on "Listen to this article" on a webpage and it opens a file chooser expecting you to open t2s-hq-fast-en+pl.model if you already have it? Users won't be able to make any sense of that.
Morale of the story: don’t apply for a CTO position. Apply for CEO: more money, less pressure, and you get to be as incompetent as you want.
And that is why there is different types of subkeys, which you are told about when generating the keys, and every "getting started" guide I've found. If you don't want to receive encrypted emails, don't share a subkey for encrypting email?
>> What struck me as odd when I was an undergraduate, and still strikes me to this day, is that none of these are the obvious trigonometric definitions about the opposite and adjacent sides of a right triangle.

I had the less common experience of learning some graphics programming prior to taking a trig class in school. "How do I draw a circle?" You sweep an angle from 0 to 360 (or 2*pi) and use sin() and cos() to get points on the unit circle, then multiply by your radius and plot them. For me the notion of sin and cos being coordinates of points on a unit circle was natural. Later when I had trig class it seemed really weird to define these functions as ratios of sides of a triangle. In particular you never talk about a side length as being negative. So no, it's not universal that the triangle definitions seem more obvious or make more intuitive sense.

I think this is important for people to understand. What seems easy or natural can depend on how your particular tree of knowledge was constructed.
Based on the page footer ("IECC ChurnWare") I believe this is a site by design to waste time for web crawlers and tools which try to get root access on every domain. The robots.txt looks like this: https://ulysses-antoine-kurtis.web.sp.am/robots.txt

I don't see how this does much to keep bad actors away from other domains, but I can see why they don't want to give up the game for OpenAI to stop crawling.
Yeah great honeypot
But the entire supply chain is in China.
When in tablet mode on a device like the Legion Go or the ROG Ally - clicking the search bar in the start menu closes it and then opens the dumb “search popup”, which breaks your input focus and you have to tap the search bar again.

So to search, swipe up - tap search bar - tap the same search bar again. I’m not sure who from the UX team vetted that, but it’s awful UX.

I also don’t need copilot to try to digest every file I have for Microsoft to use in their training set. Gaming on Linux is getting very good especially with the work from the steam deck, so I’m hoping one day I can just drop windows on my gaming PC. I have a few Linux servers and use a MacBook for everything else and couldn’t be happier.
Scaling Laws for Data Filtering – Data Curation Cannot Be Compute Agnostic
America is full of abandoned malls. What if we turned them into housing?
Cost of labor might be significant in some countries, but in a lot of countries, cost of materials is still the significant cost barrier to installation of solar. If the cost of materials were to come down significantly, even if it is at the expense of some efficiency, and also make the installation much more flexible, then definitely more installation will happen. Capital invested will be recovered in a shorter duration making the investment a lot less risky. This makes lending programs much more accessible, making the whole thing a more self-reinforcing cycle.
Somewhere I read a story of someone administrative back in the 1960s dropping a card deck on the floor. "No problem," they said, "I'll just re-sort it" which was exactly what you'd do with a program deck. Unfortunately, it wasn't a program: it had been a table of random numbers which, upon sorting, became worthless.
Also we can work on self-improvement
Yes. Nobody thinks that it’s magically floating. Was this written by AI? This reads like ChatGPT nonsense to me: “Many art historians think that Spitzweg wanted to depict a starving artist.”
Why make unencrypted the default? For https, encrypted has become the default. Users don't need to understand certificates at all, but it works. We should have the same for email.

But that does require all clients to make this easy for the user.
Huh, well regarding the snide political remarks that always follow mention of certain countries (i.e., non-Western) it has. Maybe we need a new guideline for that.

I mean, can we just chat about the technical aspects of Neom or MateBooks or whatever without all the political stuff? There's other communities for that.
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This link is being passed around in fundraising circles. Thought I would share this with the rest of the group.
This is a twitter/x advocate website. They're framing taking down misinformation as censorship and prosecution of January 8 rioters (same as January 6 in the US) as a bad thing instead of people winning stupid prizes for playing stupid games.
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Can confirm.

Spent the last 5 years at 2 different startups.

Presently unemployed and broke due to literally worthless equity.
Arachnid here… What am I looking at? The intent is to waste the resources of crawlers by just making the web larger?
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Most places that "train" just have some online courses, maybe an in-person or two. I don't know of anywhere that has some sort of real training like apprentice program.
Google/Alphabet is willing to mandate - and then enforce - sweeping changes. When they shifted to U2F and forced everyone to use it, phishing all but vanished as an ongoing problem. I don't know if Microsoft is capable of that, technologically or culturally.
The reason the market has shifted to larger phones is that for many people outside the HN crowd, phones are their _primary_ computing device.

Reading books, watching videos, social, etc. but also interacting with webforms, etc. are all easier on a larger device and screen.
I think they just want to advertise all the patents they filed and get bought.
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12" MacBook

I'm surprised Apple never re-released the 12" MacBook with an M-series chip.

Since that was the defining moment when Apple realized they needed to create their own computer cpu (M-series).

---

For context, in 2015 Apple release for the first time both the:

- 12" MacBook (running Intel)

- iPad Pro (running a beefed up A-series chip)

The form factor of these two devices was near identical.

But the speed and power consumption was hugely different.

People constantly complained how slow and hot the Intel 12" MacBook was.

While the iPad Pro (with it's beefed up A-series) had super long battery life, fast and cool.

That's when Apple realized that Intel wasn't going to be able to produce the CPUs they wanted and went all in on creating M-Series.
But it would shield the team under them. In which case it could alter the manager-director relationship through second order effects.
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Between the name and the logo colors I assumed for years it was a frozen foods store (there's mostly in strip malls too so I'd drive near but never close enough or slow enough to truly peek), then one day I stepped into one and realized it was an inflation-adjusted dollar store
and removing the duplicates

Not worrying about duplicates makes my photo management easier. [0]

But not worrying about culling changed everything for the better. [1]

Basically, I treat photographic storage as write-only. Since every digital photograph is tagged with a date when it is made, date is the primary key. Sure sometimes it's wrong. So what? Being wrong is not going to launch the missiles.

Survival is why we manage photographs (otherwise we would just delete them and make our life easier). Dealing with duplicates and poor images when searching/viewing is a distant second. It is not the thing to optimize around (outside of commercial uses).

Deduplicating and culling are massively time consuming, require mental focus and our mistake prone. The mistakes are not just technical the are aesthetic and editorial. Editorial mistakes are of the "Now that they are dead I wish I had more pictures of them" variety.

Aesthetic mistakes are because my current aesthetic judgement is worse than my future aesthetic judgement...or my current aesthetic judgement is better than my past aesthetic judgement. I went through a period where I took a 25k photos a year and rated them all. In the years since, many many of those ratings were naive. Lower rated pictures are often much better than higher rated ones.

Thankfully I kept the lower rated ones and bought more storage to solve that problem. [2]

Good luck.

[0] The more copies you have the more likely an image is to survive.

[1] The only culling I do is of total garbage (e.g. the lens cap was on) and then only sometimes because usually it doesn't matter.

[2] and fortunately I don't do much video because then culling and deduplicating is economically more important.
I do agree some small group of people within the KPMG empire is going to feel the sting of this. I worry the lesson for the rest is going to be "don't get caught", not "don't do that". I struggle to think of a way to get the right message across that doesn't involve real punishment at the top of the pyramid.
Custom element is global ?
I’d let them do their thing, why not?! They want the internet? This is the real internet. It looks like he doesn’t really care that much that they’re retrieving millions of pages, so let them do their thing…
Trying to create a safer online environment... Sounds really great!
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Of course. I come here to express my view about technology, and refine my arguments against it. What better place than the lion's den?
You don't need to trust the dhcp time. But it would be useful for bootstrapping, especially devices without rtc. This does not really apply to your average PC which probably already has good guess on current time, those can simply just ignore the dhcp provided value.

The DHCP server provided value can not be much worse than 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z default value if you don't have any other data. And if you have some other data, e.g. ext4 superblock timestamps, you can pretty trivially protect against DHCP providing time from the past (i.e. use the maximum of different sources).

Finally, you can restrict the use of the dhcp provided time to the initial bootstrapping process only; it's not necessary to use it for system-wide clock
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It looks like they also acquired a company called Removaly in the process.
I had a similar thought -- my perspective:

There will be a TON of these 60-second tracks, and no one wants to listen for anywhere near that long while skimming a feed, so these will now be ignored.
Show HN: AI assistant powered by Groq to generate authorization models
Hi I’m Karan, one of the maintainers of Permify, an open source authorization service to build scalable authorization systems.

I want to share with you that we’ve built an AI assistant to help modeling your desired authorization logic! You can basically describe your authorization logic in Permify AI and it will generate the respective model and semantics accordingly. Think of it like ChatGPT for authorization modeling/policy generation.

Here’s the project if you would like to play with it: https://ai.permify.co/.

*Here’s the brief backstory on how we developed this idea:*

Since authorization is generally a domain specific issue use cases vary widely - roles, relationships, attributes, hierarchies between business units, contextual permissions, etc.

To address this, we’re offering a domain specific language that we built purely using golang to help model authorization logic programmatically. You can see what it looks like with sample examples in our playground: https://play.permify.co/

Although our domain specific language helps our users significantly, the general idea of policy generation is hard challenging if you have complex authorization logic and versatile permission requirements. Additionally, the flexibility of our modeling language allows for achieving the same policy/permissions through various approaches. But creating the best possible policy is crucial for several reasons including the performance of access checks, the readability of the authorization logic, visibility, and achieving least privilege, etc.

When we tallied up all those reasons, it hit us: using AI could really smooth out the policy generation process. It could not only reduce the engineering effort but also yield the best possible results. That’s why we integrated Groq to make to create Permify AI!

Would love to get your feedback on this!
For delivering strict network access controls, a clear audit trail at multiple points, and (at a guess) the usage of very temporary credentials to actually log in, yes. Especially if the same infrastructure is used for other, less SaaS-centric data handling tasks or users are in places that like to mandate access to geo-local data (India, China, etc.).

Security measures in operational workflows are only a little bit about what the end user - you - sees. Generally they're really about delivering something less obviously visible to the user but very valuable to the business, investors, and regulators.
There are robotaxis being tested in the west coast US and Wuhan, China.