skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks exceptionally cool. Thank you for writing an excellent Mac app - forget the rest of the hate here.

Do you think this would be appropriate for turning into a long form video? I’m imagining seeing videos of my boys growing and playing where I just periodically dump the camera and eventually sitch it as frames into a movie.

Anyway to know when it’s about to write over itself in storage?
Use Debian Testing. Packages up-to-date. Compare the latest Ubuntu and Debian Testing:

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?firstlist=debian&secondlis...

And I repeat what I said before: don't be fooled by the name of the release - "Testing". The name "Testing" exists due to an orthodox approach of Debian community that only the Debian stable can use "stable".
I saw it's use in the before times, though personally did not associate it for the article title (assumed it referenced a biopsy or something)
>Albert Hoffman the inventor of LSD also said he had contact with external entities on a trip (eyeball with wings) and said that it told him that they chose him to discover LSD for the sake of humanity

When will these entities share something truly useful, like the design for a working cold fusion reactor, or a cure for Alzheimer's?

Also, people really need to know that while a psychadelic trip can be healing and mystical, it can also go like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/gb9ar0/dark_dmt_trip_r...
And you think without leetcode questions the despicable biased interviewer from your example would not be able to hire someone from their Alma mater over someone else?
At best ARM is regular rather than reduced
And also the argument that people have demons in them: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-others-with....

I read some of the guy's book. It's a trip.

If those external entities were real, we wouldn't need to wait for science, some shaman would just go to the spirit realm and get told about bacteria.

A great point.
LOL.

No, really, that’s my best reply. This isn’t worth dignifying with a reasonable response because it’s laughably out of touch with reality.

That’s astoundingly incorrect. LOL.
That was a study done by an industry group and included all fees and taxes in a contrived scenario. Not just permitting fees.

So things like property tax during the build period, as well as sales tax and service tax charged by the builders contractors. The study assumed a 5 year build period and multiplied all yearly property taxes by that amount. It also tacked on things like the vacant home tax and speculation tax which are not applied to properties under construction. Many of the taxes and fees are also scaled to the square footage of the house. Lastly they also included things like sewer hookup fees, which is really not an unnecessary cost for a builder to pay.

Permit fees are too high, and maybe we should exempt a lot of them given the current crisis, but this study is aiming for a quick headline. If you dig into their analysis it is a worst case scenario for what a house would cost for a foreign speculator who left the house vacant before flipping it and didn’t qualify for any homebuyer tax exemptions.

A lot of those taxes and fees wouldn’t apply to a sandcastle is what I’m saying. The $250k figure is the number they quoted for a $900k 2-bed new-build condo in a transit corridor. Even in their own study the lower cost housing units were coming in at half that.
The CDC comprises lots of doctors, and their website says otherwise:

> Everyone 6 months and older in the United States, with rare exception, should get an influenza (flu) vaccine every season
> pre-cast concrete shipped in

I've also seen this done where the walls were cast concrete using molds placed on the large and flat foundation floor. Still went up alarmingly fast. It does make me wonder if similar balloon techniques are worth re-visiting for domestic architecture. Either way, it's amusing to see such a rapid construction technique used to warehouse and bootstrap a completely different rapid construction technique.

> Majority of the project time was leveling, compacting, and foundation.

And drainage. It's amazing how much time and construction effort goes into "make water go down the hole".
Encryption at Rest makes it easy to reason about data hygiene, since access to the data is gated through access to the keys.

You want to delete data? Toss the keys. You want to confidentially process data? Make the keys available to a TEE or such. You want to prevent yourself from having constant access to the data? Let the client provide the keys. And of course, you want to protect the keys? Use an HSM.
If unserious cities didn’t have Boring Company, they’d just choose another gadgetbahn.
So... the FBI threatened and coerced the CEO of the telco company to spy on all of the phone company's users illegally. Seems pretty similar to what they tried to do to the Qwest Chairman and CEO Joseph P. Nacchio. But he refused and they put him in prison for years on trumped up inside trading charges initiated by the FBI intentionally having the government drop Qwest contracts and accusing Nacchio of knowing about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

The FBI isn't completely just a bunch of unethical criminals but the bad apples do seem more common than the good ones. In this article/transcript they even admit to commiting securities fraud themselves.
No, they aren't obligated. So, if there's no bug bounty program in place, then they should either go to the beach or be willing to find bugs for the public good.

The idea that the company owes them anything for their unsolicited work is misguided. And, if they present the bugs for money under the implicit threat of selling the information to people who would harm the company, then it's extortion.
... The replication crisis does not - I repeat, does not - lower the standard for acceptable evidence in the sciences.
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Trail cameras are much larger. So if size is a restraint this could be better, but valid point. Most trail cameras use 8x AA batteries!
The "cracking" part was just using a base64 decoder. At first I thought they were talking about nin10news decoding, which I think would have been more useful to them, since people are using it to share complete ROM sets. IIRC those URLs are just AES encrypted with a single slash character as the key.
It's $20 less than the Analogue Pocket from what I'm seeing?

https://store.analogue.co/
I suspect some do, and some will be a lot when you bunch them all together.

However, counter point, I've had people forced on me through much of my career who just can't code for the most part, and despite being pretty reasonable about it ( it's part of the nature of the work I do ), I'm very rarely surprised by competency.
Firmware has no knowledge of the use app you're running and other user space info, right? Then it'll always be inferior
> it's just their own fantasy worlds are even less unique than ours

They do have many more fantasy worlds though, not being as unique means they have room for many many more and better ones. I do feel western authors focuses too much on being different so often they make things bad just to not be like the others.
I never said rude, and maybe I was less charitable than I should have been with malicious. But reading that comment and all of the others here that mirror it there is a kind of almost malicious assumption, or at least a very non understanding dismissal of the choice.
Wood is cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if the materials of this are more than a wood frame plus labor to put it up. At least when I compare HDPE 2x4 to wood 2x4s the cost difference is massive.
Yeh I figured it was a choice, but thought maybe Troy could make it so we could only see the data that relates to us, maybe by sending a verification email, similar to how he verifies domain searches.
Good timing for me. I'm in the middle of listening to "The Humans" by Matt Haig. The story opens after someone proves the Riemann hypothesis.
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>>By striving to cleave the drug’s effects from the context in which it’s given—to a patient by a therapist, both of whom are hoping for healing—blinded studies may fail to capture the full picture.

The amount of monkey types amongst these researchers is spectacular. In the current AI boom, with various RAG and prompt engineering, everyone is striving to maximize context, and no-one would deny that modern AI emulates parts of human mind/brain. And context sensitivity of quantum systems is also pretty much obvious.

Modern astronomy, for example, can pretty much as well challenge the standard of randomized controlled trials: no one uses experimental planets and galaxies to test their null hypotheses. No engineer would strive to falsify the objects they are developing by deliberately designing non-working engines etc. And this is pretty much considered science.

While these "social scientists" are still full of medieval bullshit, so that it is more optimal to commit suicide than use their evidence-skewed medicine, which under the hood by default considers the subjects are either rocks or dead.
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I don't know if it's just me but buying any sort of "secure phone" from some kind of random no-name company doesn't really feel like I'd be buying a secure phone, regardless of the flowery promises you think you can give me in the marketplace.

Every single one I've come across has had so many red flags I thought I'd walked back into the Soviet Union.
The main threat to encrypting health information is actually dishonest cryptographers.

The quality of healthcare privacy reasoning is like, instead of searching for user Michael Knight in a database of cancer patients, you hash the name, use a bloom filter to determine if the hash exists in the protected data set or not, and then tell your regulators and the public that the foreign jurisdiction research assistants hired from fiverr don't have access to your health information because everything is encrypted and we only compare hashes. it's like that "sudo make me a sandwich," cartoon but, "cryptographically disclose your health information."
Combined with nohup, this could probably be useful for detaching/reattaching to long running processes across user sessions?

I'm back to using tmux again, but for a while I was using another program dtach, to start vim sessions that I could disconnect and reattach to. Inside neovim I'd have a bunch of terminals & buffers & what not, so it felt redundant having tmux also hosting an event higher level environment.

Dtach is super super lightweight. Tmux is keeping copies of each screen in memory, is doing some reprocessing. Dtach is basically a pipe wrapping input a program's input and output, data in data out.

I even wrote a little shell script to let me very quickly 'dta my-proje' which will go autocomplete my-project name and either open the existing dtach session in that project or go create dtach session with vim in it. https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment/blob/master/dt...

It would be interesting to see something like dtach used for automation or scripting, as it seems targeted for. The idea of being able to relay around the input and output feels like it should have some neat uses. There isn't really a protocol, afaik, and there's definitely no retained state for a getView like ht. But it should in many ways function similarly?
It also defends against cultural indifference to privacy violations. If you go to Reddit r/sysadmin, most SREs and DevOps folks generally do not care too much for challenging subpoenas and government data requests. If a three letter spook shows up to their data center and demands data, it's just another Tuesday for them. IT people are very different from software engineers who are more likely to protest online and offline about civil right violations and government overreach.
Seems like a bit of an overlap, the NSA are already running voicemail and message archiving services, they seem best placed to batch out in to hardware.
I think it’s just a sensational clickbait type headline.

But I roll my eyes at the phrase “jab”.

It conjures images of Bill Deblasio asking about a “burger element” on TV trying to trade French fries and burgers for vaccines.
I think it's OK to have a contractual stipulation that you won't do anything to embarass your employer, especially if you're in a management or leadership position.

That being said, I don't like how universities pick and choose on what to defend as "free speech" and what to double down on... They need to be consistent and clear.
Git has an awful UI. I already said that twice here and in many other places before. So what's your point? Looks like a straw man to me.
I'm not familiar with quidco, but based on what i can tell, they look like an individual cashback shopping portal. The difference between what I've built and a site like this is that I scan multiple shopping portals so that users can find the best offer.

QuidCo seems to be more international (vs my site is focusing on the US for now), but I imagine I'd eventually index offers from QuidCo
Gotcha... so basically encryption of disk at rest prevents someone from walking out with a drive...

Encryption "at rest" in the database prevents someone with server or direct db connection from pulling the data.

I had never really thought of those as two different vectors, but of course they are. Thanks for clarifying!

With Salesforce and how a lot of these companies manage their security model, I'm still confident that investing in securing unauthorized user access is still orders of magnitude more useful than putting time and effort into this vector.
You mean like our own existence?

There are also species of animals that literally do not age.

The saying that entropy always wins the war is disingenuous as life wins the battles that we can see insofar.
And yet they let through `.email` ...what?
Saw a good one sortof inspired by these, in the 80s.

Foam Dome Barns.

Guy would build a big earth hill, like a bread loaf. cover it with a shell of polyurethane foam, then pour a thin coat of cement over that. Leave the ends open and dig the dirt out when everything sets; add doors and finishing touches to taste. On reflection, i think there had to be support structure in the foam. Wire mesh maybe.

I never saw any bigger than car size, myself; but they bragged about the bigger ones they'd built. I think the lifetime of the foam was supposed to be 70 years but turned out to be more like 5.
> A hard disk is lost during transit, somehow ? No data is stolen.

Arguably, customer data should not leave a secure location on a physical disk. If you want to move your server, backup the data, wipe the disk, move the server/disk/etc, and then put the data back on the disk once it is back in a secure location. The author mentions this in the article - define a secure boundary, don't let the data exit that boundary unencrypted.
The average American spends 3-4 hours per day on TV or Internet entertainment.

Sooo... its not much of a leap.
Why is it unlikely?

Not enough physical resources?

People working in the wrong jobs?

Or just, we won't?
I would hazard a guess that this (+ gaming) is how most people use their personal computers. Most users live in their browsers.
The author used the term "unknown unknowns". This is a variant of the way I talk about this state:
"you don't know what you don't know".

There are two audiences for this articles then, the ones who know what they don't know (or know it all), and those like me who are ignored-squared.

I found it extremely helpful to help me "know what I don't know". If you have no idea what "encryption at rest" is or why it is important, then this is very useful and helpful.

As the author clearly states it does not cover other things you don't know, like why and how to use full disk encryption.

That said, it would be helpful for us i² [i squared] folks to have some of the more basic terms explained. Although "encryption at rest" is somewhat understandable, it would be pleasant to have it explained. For example what are the other kinds of encryption that are not "at rest"?

There are a bunch of diligent amateurs out here, ones who know we don't know what we don't know and are attempting to build cryptographic things. We learn not to create our own implementations for example, but articles that specifically address us are good.

[edit for clarity]
Looks like this site was made in 2 minutes in Framer. Seems like an email grab to me. I wouldn't put my email into it.
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According to https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071 their grokked model outperformed GPT4 and Gemini1.5 on the reasoning task.
We can then argue if the task makes sense and the conclusion stands for other use cases but i think grokking can be useful
CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air
The tech industry is in such a sorry state. Rather than having talented people work across a variety of companies, the biggest ones like Microsoft and Google lure them in with salaries and benefits no one else can compete with, or acquire their companies for cheap before they can make any waves in a market segment they might be interested in at some point - way overhiring and pumping their stock prices, putting the talent on a bunch of projects they have no commitment to and won't go anywhere, only to lay everyone off when they need to squeeze more blood from the infinite-YoY-earnings-growth, line-must-go-up stone.

And the government still isn't stepping in to stop the endless anti-competitive acquisitions. They just bought Activision Blizzard even though everyone knows it's just because they might make a successful game that will have a PlayStation port, so those users won't have need to buy an Xbox or Windows gaming PC to play it. And of course after winning their anti-trust trial they immediately laid off a thousands employees.
"You're a helluva way from the pituitary, man".

That is kind of an interesting question. The above quote from " Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman", (by my memory) is from a chapter that, iirc, deals with his time there giving talks trying to inject some logic amidst the woo.
> That said, it would be helpful for us i² [i squared] folks to have some of the more basic terms explained. Although "encryption at rest" is somewhat understandable, it would be pleasant to have it explained.

That's helpful feedback, actually. What terms seemed opaque or misleading to you as you read it? I'm always happy to fix mistakes in blog posts to improve clarity.

> For example what are the other kinds?

I contrast "encryption at rest" with "encryption in transit" (i.e., TLS) and "end-to-end encryption" (E2EE for short; i.e., what Signal gives you).
May be and just may be, those users will then try some linux distros and realize that it's not so bad and stick with it.

Hope that will drive linux adoption a little more.
There is a pretty big gap between the narrative in the post here: "only supports macOS currently", and what the website says: "Exclusively for Mac" in a Just Girly Things cursive font. The latter makes it sound like they'd reject support if someone handed to them on a silver MR shaped platter.
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Sure, with the money involved, there is some private companies. I worked for one you named. However, startup scene will always have government focused entities and therefore non-government specialized VCs (like YC) probably don't see juice worth the squeeze to try and find a few diamonds in the rough.

As for talent moving to companies doing interesting impactful work, I'm not sure I see it. Tech people moving into area seemed to be drawn by government work so they are gone. Home grown tech workers are mixed bag of which I'm one. Some followed their parents and join the ranks of government employees/contractors. Others did find private employment. Really good ones seemed to depart the area. I wasn't really good one, I just moved for my partner.
Could be our universe and timeline is a boltzman universe/boltzman timeline embedded in some large timeless crystalline state space.

That would kinda suck, because we'd be static crystals. But from the subjective perspective of a self aware sub crystal is maybe not so bad. Perhaps reality is malleable and magical.

For instance it might be possible to travel to other universes. From the global view, we have multiple atemporal subjective timelines, with subjective agents popping out of one reality and into another thanks to some crystals and magnets with special geometries. From the subjective view, you have a Rick and Morty episode
Yeah, as long as the data is encrypted that should solve the stolen or lost concern. Wouldn't want my entire history searchable to a malicious party, what a nightmare.