skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That explains why they would make broadband noises but not peaky high-q noises like the ones in the paper.
> What do they imagine it is about modernity that is doubling our life span?

If you take away the knowledge and the medical advances and the social technology, the big difference is food acquisition.

Pre-industrial revolution, most people were subsistence farmers, and city dwellers lived on their backs.

Now our food needs are met by a much smaller % of the population
Have you not seen Windows 11 lately?

I have, and I am still happy to be on Linux as my daily driver for over 20 years now.
It could still just be switched on and used to spy on an unknowing spouse for example... its just so creepy. Who asked for this feature?? No one did.
When this was announced I actually saw a post by someone who used a similar tool for time tracking in OS X and they claimed it was really helpful.

To be frank, I would not mind having this feature on linux provided it was entirely local, and encrypted.
> I think the thought is proportional to the amount of thought a non-tech customer will put into it.

Part of me wonders if this is the consequence of how accessible tech has become, and the prevalence of increasingly non-technical product managers. I'm a former PM, and I'm not here to denigrate the PM role, but the fact that a product like Recall got shipped says a lot about the makeup of the product org that shipped it.

While I get that younger people tend to see privacy differently, I'd argue this isn't really a privacy issue, it's a security conversation, albeit with obvious privacy implications. Leaking what apps I use or what sites I visit is mostly a privacy issue. Leaking what I type into the boxes on those sites is a security issue. If the end result of leaking this info is the attacker can pwn all of my bank accounts, we're solidly into security territory.

The fact that this got shipped means that multiple levels of leadership either didn't think about the consequences or didn't care about the consequences. I hope it's the former, because that means they can learn from the backlash and hopefully recalibrate.

Microsoft is in a position of power that IMO requires a significant duty of care and responsibility to their customers, and lapses like this need to be judged through that lens, i.e. it is their entire business to make sure features like this are safe.
There's plenty of really tasty fast food out there.

The problem is if it's the tasty the right way it is expensive, and if it is the bad kind of tasty it's unhealthy.
And if someone’s after that console-like functionality, ChimeraOS is the right choice in this area. It behaves like SteamOS, but is more compatible with PC hardware.
Searching for "youtube cutter"/"get youtube video snippets" shows many websites which can do something like this, although not as an extension
I'm not suggesting that the fan control should be open-loop with respect to temperature, only that temperature is lagging but voltage and current are leading, so if the CPU is going to ask for a massive step change in power the platform can look at that and precharge the fans.
Corporate clients get whatever they want. I am certain that their Windows 10 support won't be pulled in Oct 2025 as MS has threatened for everyone else. And when they migrate to Win11, it will almost certainly be a separate OS image free of the garbage bloatware and ads that the consumer devices are plagued with.
Physics: The big questions of our existence in under an hour
The number of expect scripts I find in production that are used to automate ssh password authentication is ridiculous.
Well, 15% of the time, it works every time.
"If you like the feature at all you can make these things work."

It's not on the individual users to take steps to preserve their basic human dignity. It's not Microsoft to not take that dignity away by default as was their plan before this fiasco predictably blew up in their faces just like the Xbox One always-online Kinect requirement before it.
If people are attacking women and destroying companies because they think they might be associated with women's rights, it's not a hand gesture that's the problem. "Horrible intentions"?
How to download a copy of a website using Wget
It's a Node application, I don't know why you expected high performance
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You left out a word.
How do you find clients? Got any tips/tricks to share?

I'm unemployed right now so I'll take anything.
> stopping all Axis aggression in WW2 was good for everyone

Stopping Axis aggression against the US, Britain, France, and other Western countries was good for everyone.

Stopping Axis aggression against the USSR? I'm not so sure. Particularly not since the price of doing that was condemning Eastern Europe, China, and a good chunk of Southeast Asia to tyranny.
All Your Vectors Are Belong to You [video]
It led to waste, now they push don't assemble till ordered, the number crunching and metric pressure is absurd.
Reflecting heat back to space should also work. E.g. cover large areas with white (IR-reflective) layer. Or with clouds.

It's pretty involved, and harder to pull off exactly as planned, but should work in a pinch, e.g. to stop a catastrophic runaway heating trend.
didn't see from the docs, can you track upload/download progress from the sdk?
You're getting a lot of glib answers, but in all seriousness, this is one of the amazing things about tom7 videos. It sometimes starts by appearing to be about nonsense or triviality, but as he weaves all these weird stories, they start to come together into observations that are absolutely brilliant and funny and he writes code to demonstrate what he's saying. I highly recommend "Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need" as an intro to his style, his humor, and the absurd lengths he will go to in order to prove a point. It's in three chapters and the middle chapter still blows my mind.
"However, the new research has found that projects which had a specification or documented requirements before development started were 50% more likely to succeed than those which didn’t, projects which had clear requirements before starting development were 97% more likely to succeed and projects which did not require making significant requirements changes late into the development process were 7% more likely to succeed."

This is a complete mis-representation of how agile is supposed to work.

Agile doesn't advocate for "no requirements"

"significant requirements changes late into the development process were 7% more likely to succeed."

even though your development cycle is 2 weeks you still can't change specs in the middle.
We will never see Microsoft ship a major product like this and not have it bundled in to a windows update. (Rather than specific install)

After their success with installing Teams, Microsoft has seen that the regulators will not proactively stop this kind of thing anymore
As long as stockholders think it'll be good, that's what matters. Perceived value is easier to create than real value.
> Why is MS pushing something so hard when nobody asked for it?

Here's the thing. When no-one asks for it, hard push is the only way to sell it.

:)
On the contrary, executives at the office have been coming to me about various such tools for months now. It really picked up last fall.

Microsoft was last to the party.
> If I can be charitable, I think they mean a different computer than one you usually use

If I can be charitable ....

What the hell are you doing storing your SSH keys on-disk anyway ? :)

Put your keys on a Yubikey, take your keys with you.
In theory you could have always just installed a screen recorder to record your spouse even before this.
> Is that meant to be an oblique reference

No. I meant exactly what I said. I didn't say anything about Japan except that the USSR attacked them--more precisely, they attacked the Japanese troops in Manchuria. Not just in 1945--in the late 1930s.
There is a revocation system in place (the RevokedKeys directive in the sshd configuration file, which seems to be system-wide rather than configured at the user-level. At least, that’s the only way I’ve used it)

I agree with the sentiment though, it is far less extensive than traditional X.509 certificate infrastructure.
"Est. 1885" is what it looks like when scaling this page down to 10%.
Everyone has time to cook... it takes way less time make a sandwich than it does to go pick up takeout.
It is possible to access to Recall database without admin access.

https://x.com/GossiTheDog/status/1798832390070276500
I don't know, maybe we should just wait for the full results of next bidecadal national fast food census.
Honestly this whole thing reeks of some sort of data grab dressed up as an "innovative" new feature. They probably wanted a bunch of new training material for their AI projects, and this is what they came up with.
An Edsac Simulator
It's just an usually bigger password.
I’d personally love to do so myself, but I’ve been born already, so I doubt I’ll be able to before I’m dead. Yeah, I’m cynical about fusion, as I am about AI. AI has been around forever, and it always promises “general intelligence” sometime in the near future. Fusion promises sustained net-positive output fusion burns sometime in the near future. Both fields endlessly dancing around their goal, maybe getting closer, but mainly just trying to not stay in the same spot eternally.
It's a language I don't hear much these days.

What purpose is it used?
Microsoft will go ahead with Recall, will temporarily make it opt-in. Eventually, when weather is good they’ll default it to opt-out. If new backlash ensues they’ll PR that it was a a bug and turn it off only to bundle it later with something that can’t be turned off.

At this point MS is a toxic company that you’re better off, as a user, to steer away from.
woke is a slur now? lol
lol, well when I've written my PhD on those areas we can return to whether I'm an expert on them or not.

One does not form "connections" between them as in some wide-eye conspiracy theorist.. "predictive coding" has little to do with "prediction" in the ML sense. The latter concerned with making a quantitive estimate of some variable by summarising historical data.

What we are doing when we revise a "mental model" is done by counter-factual simulation of possible future states. Statistical AI models conditional probability structures, and computes predictions as an expectation over weighted summarised historical data. This is not a means of performing counter-factual simulation.

One trivial, sadly empirical, way to see this is to note that each marginal token generated is of constant time and energy use. Yet trivially, reasoning and a variety of other mental capacities should require abitarily different time to run. Eg., simulating a complex scenario is necessarily more intensive than a simple one, and so on.

Yet I am quite annoyed that we need such dumb observations to make this point. It speaks of a profound ignorance of "theory of mind, cognition, information theory, physics, philosophy" and especially neurology and zoology which are your most significant missing terms.

It is no real mystery what the structure of various mental capacities involves; nor any mystery what s(Ws(Ws(WX+B)+B...)...)...) computes. Even involving anything beyond trivial applied statistics and trivial results in science shouldnt be required here. This stuff is very obvious.
> I think you're right and high latency (~40ms) between endpoints triggered some bad TCP behavior.

40 ms, 200MB/s. The BDP limit for those numbers is 7.6 MB (if I’m holding it right) which is very close to tcp_wmem/tcp_rmem max on Debian like distros, so that sounds about right. Linux can be quite stingy with buffers by default. Easy to increase though!
There's a surprising amount that aren't.

And even then:

1. Every Freemason knows what's on the Internet. Identifications have evolved.

2. The leaks lack... important contexts... about what they are.
The corporate settings that care already do this to the employee screens ...

Compliance doesn't say "company can't watch employee" -- in many cases it mandates surveillance.

This just lets the employee leverage that too.
Baháʼí buildings are gorgeous; rivaling (US) Hindu and LDS temples. I wish there were more of them.

The complex in Haifa is just superb.
Not being the pro here, but something tells me that they've already figured it out when they do it every 20 years.

What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyl-RDs-IC0
Microsoft keeps attempting to violate HIPAA on my clients’ behalf. Before this, they turned on OneDrive backups via updates, and began moving sensitive documents onto their servers without prior authorization or consent. I documented the incident, because I honestly wasn’t sure whether or not a lawsuit would result from it. I notified Microsoft, but never got a response.
In practice, this will just result in people and organisations using the last version of OpenSSH that supports password authentication.
To be clear, I am not in favor of Recall or dismissing its intrusiveness. However, the correct comparison is not just "browser history". Google is also tracking your search history, passwords (built-in password manager), location history (Google Maps), ad clicks, and more. All-in, it's a LOT of data.
Truly great works cannot be summarized
List of GPL violations... 3...2...1..!
A Look into Cara – Maybe Host Your Own Art
This deserves an updoot. We reached a level of scale right now at Checkly that all of these things start adding up. We moved workloads off of S3 to Cloudflare R2 because of this.
The OpenBSD project provides a CVSWeb interface[1] and a GitHub mirror[2]. The portable OpenSSH project[2] that most of the world gets their OpenSSH from uses a Git repo[4] that also has a Web interface (at the same address) and a GitHub mirror[5]. Per the code there[6], the default configuration seems to be

PerSourcePenalties crash:90 authfail:5 noauth:1 grace-exceeded:20 max:600 min:15 max-sources:65536 overflow:permissive

[1] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/

[2] https://github.com/openbsd/src

[3] https://www.openssh.com/portable.html

[4] https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git

[5] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable

[6] https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/tree/servconf.c?id=0...
We were both in college when my first child was born with one $13/hr summer internships's worth of income. Medicaid covered 100% of everything; I paid $0 out of pocket.

This was in 2010.
The AI training team asked for this feature

(I’m being a bit provocative and assume today it stores locally only but a future TOS change will secretly and “anonymously” upload your data ‘for training purposes’ —- that’s what everyone else is doing these days)
Also, this is very very important for people in the US to realize: Not having a "Social credit score" bureau doesn't mean the US doesn't have a social credit score! It only means the US government has to pay market rate for the service!

This is true for a lot of things the US allegedly "doesn't have", including domestic surveillance.

To ACTUALLY not have a social credit score system in the US, you MUST make even attempting to collect the necessary data so legally radioactive that most businesses are afraid to ask for birth dates, and keep voting out any politician that doesn't push for aggressive enforcement
I see a market for seatback screen covers. Just use your own device if you need to, otherwise read a book.
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Except that before today you didn’t even need admin for access to the database, any process that is allowed to read things could access the Recall database.
Legends say there were times when you'd have a program.c file and just run cc program.c, and then could just execute the compiled result. Funny that programmer's job is highly automatable, yet we invent ourselves tons of intermediate layers which we absolutely have to deal with manually.
In CA, a 1/2lb beef burger meal at McDonalds is still $9 on the app, practically half the hourly minimum wage, so 30 minutes of work. Housing and medical care are far bigger issues.
So, your plan is to get rid of both artificial fertilizers (use methane for Haber-Bosch), and natural fertilizers (livestock manure)?
ideally it wouldnt be expanded, the whole point is to have definite denial of recording at any time, or a cut off period, such as archiving the system portion after 12, or 24 hours. this saves system storage space, and preserves data for the owner should they need what they were doing 6months ago.
> when nobody asked for it

It's easy to say if you aren't one to benefit from this, but that doesn't mean no one will or that no one asked for it.
> And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.

No, no. They thought about the privacy and security aspect. They decided that it's better for their bottom line if Windows users don't have privacy from the mother ship. Really, they already decided that way back when Windows Vista first came out and periodically asked Microsoft HQ if you should continue being allowed to use your computer.
Solutions that are not "acceptable enough" are not solutions, they are notions.

We can still "have it all" -- flight, meat, etc., if the right incentives exist; this too is more notion than solution but is the only possible path.

We can make "sustainable" fuel, and cattle can be fed seaweed and restricted to existing range lands (i.e., don't destroy more forests).

A key problem is that this issue and associated solutions have been artfully politicized by their incumbent stakeholders so a significant portion of the population will resist these efforts purely out of spite.
I've used fail2ban in production for many years but eventually removed it due to causing very large iptables leading high memory use and ultimately a source of instability for other services (i.e it turns into a DDoS vulnerability for the whole server). I know the usual advice then is to reduce ban time and just not have permabanning, but that seems to kind of defeat the purpose.

I wonder how this SSH feature differs since it's implemented at the SSH level.

So long as the SSH and or PAM config requires more than a password (I use hardware keys), the main concern to me is log noise (making it hard to identify targeted security threats) and SSH DDoS. I know tarpits and alternative ports are another way of dealing with that, but when SSH is used for many things having to change the port is kind of annoying.

I think I'm probably just going to end up layering it like everyone else and stick everything behind a wireguard gateway, although that concept makes me slightly anxious about that single point of access failure.
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/81c1099d2...
Often in humans, too, depending on the badness of the particular handwritten word.
> But… why go to all that effort when you can just pop the capsule and land in a thing that is not full of highly explosive fuel?

SpaceX wants NASA to human-rate Starship because their long-term plan is to retire Falcon 9 / Dragon.

How I expect it will happen: SpaceX will run their own internal analysis of loss-of-crew probability for launch and re-entry. No point going to NASA until they've convinced themselves they are going to meet the standards for human-rating. Once they believe they are, then they'll decide when is the right time to try to convince NASA of it too.

Obviously they are already doing this for lunar landing/launch. Some of that is going to be transferrable to Earth landing/launch. Other parts are unique – e.g. probability of surviving re-entry – but they need to estimate that anyway for non-crewed use cases.
My job title is ML Engineer, but my day to day job is almost pure software engineering.

I build the systems to support ML systems in production. As others have mentioned, this includes mostly data transformation, model training, and model serving.

Our job is also to support scientists to do their job, either by building tools or modifying existing systems.

However, looking outside, I think my company is an outlier. It seems in the industry the expectations for a ML Engineer are more aligned to what a data/applied scientist does (e.g. building and testing models). That introduces a lot of ambiguity into the expectations for each role in each company.
I love these comments

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I can be that guy. I use Rewind for Mac, which is almost identical to Recall in functionality. I love it, and I've used it frequently to find things that otherwise would have been lost forever.

Most recently I used it to refresh my memory on a particularly convoluted way to authenticate with a third-party oauth system (it involved using an online oauth debugger and curl commands). I had gone through the process once successfully weeks ago, but by the time I had to do it again I'd forgotten every detail. Rather than have to go through the process of figuring it out again, I went back to my successful attempt, watched it, and basically retraced my steps. Rewind probably saved me an hour or two.

My take on Recall is that, like with almost everything, it's a trade-off of security for convenience. I find it valuable enough that I'm willing to make the trade-off, but others might not.
>thank you, next

This seems dismissive; particularly in response to the parent's offer to answer any questions.

I'd welcome whatever info the parent can volunteer.
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Oh, simple answer. The tools you use to inspect those traces just blow up with noise. Like a trace that shows 600+ of file reads that all take less than half a millisecond.

This is all noise when you are trying to debug more common issues than your FS being too slow.

+ also storage cost. Most vendors charge by Mb stored or span recorded.
maybe 50% of US business users have an admin of any kind who oversees their IT ops

everyone else just gets a laptop, unboxes it, turns it on, uses it, does whatever they want to it

see: any retail location in a strip mall, any mom/pop business, etc etc
So simply being expensive is what makes something luxurious? I thought it had to do with the quality and the experience it provides.

IMO luxurious food would be made from high quality ingredients and have an appealing presentation and an appealing consumption experience. And sure, to do all that would made it expensive, but expense is the result of luxury, not the cause.

Just because someone decides to charge a lot for some crap doesn't make it luxurious IMO.
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