skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Storing the biometric data securely in the digital enclave only covers half the problem. The other half is in the form of falsifying said biometrics to gain access to a device, or physically forcing the actual person to unlock it against their will. With keys that are only stored in my mind, I have the ability to consciously decide that access should or should not be granted.
I used to use tmux, but then switched completely jupyter terminals.

my browser is my terminal now, and I can easily upload/download files via browser (dont type SCP anymore) with a mouse click, open terminal windows, open Python notebook and do stuff.

life has never been easier after I completely switched to jupyter notebooks+terminals

plus, because it is browser based, I can roam from multiple devices.
Wow. Talk about getting triggered.
Why not the presidency. Every four years there is a battle to fine tune the executive LLM, but a secret deep state controls the actual code running and so the LLM is modified to fake partisan fights.

p.s. only slightly tongue in cheek. Use of AI by state to manage social perception is on my bingo card. It will be very effective.
> YouTube is unusable without Premium or an ad blocker. I can't imagine that they have many users that doesn't have either.

aside from millions of children on tablets, that is
Bad idea. Better would be to tweak it and instead serve a 404 with a recommendation "Maybe you meant X"
Why should Microsoft build an Apple Intelligence empire?
Are you referring to google trust services? I don't see how that applies to let's encrypt otherwise.
Internal company discussion boards... /sigh

The gist of it is...

The person who wrote v2 of a thing got a lot of shit, because there were a lot of "cons" that could have been predicted and mitigated.

I complained about them getting shit. Making a new thing is hard, and yes, there were "cons" but there are an enormous number of "pros," and you can't always block progress trying to enumerate and mitigate all of the "cons," especially if the "cons" are social in nature (which makes them hard to predict!)

I believe the company should have let the guy build v2 and see if it works. Let him test it in a few cases. Then he can try to shift to managing roll-out, and etc. Unfortunately, v2 became hugely popular instantly (wow, a problem I wish we all had!) and then a bunch of stuff went wrong, because the roll-out itself "should have been managed better."

So, #2 engineer-in-the-company came in to my comment thread, and documented the cons. Actually linked to a slideshow which showed each con on a separate slide.

Sure.

Here's the problem, v3 was written by a TEAM of people, with backing from leadership, and the "cons" of that job are enormous and embarrassing. I mean, really bad. Years later. Unpopular, and most people haven't migrated to it.

Stop giving that one guy shit when a team of people did worse. And especially if your main problem with his work was that it was too successful too fast!

Grrrr.
Does google index discord or telegram? I have not seen those in the results.
Well, you know, if Russia doesn't want war with Europe, it could stop invading pieces of Europe.
Division by Zero (short story) Is my favourite of his.
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What's the difference between this and just having a button on your website that redirects to a spoof microsoft login page?
Found another one: The Hebrides are in the wrong place, should be off the coast of Scotland, not Ireland

EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check

EDIT 2: Porto is actually a bit further south
Even if everyone in the company magically complied with the wishes of the legal department, they would still have work to do. Defending the company against frivolous lawsuits and incoming regulations, suing competitors and other bad actors outside of the company, writing and evaluating contracts, and any internal legal consultation needed.
"Bringmeham" for Birmingham is proof that this is a joke and not some heinous error, right?
The reason why the single-lookup version works, the bytes being searched for have unique low 4 bits. So the lookup generates the vector with bytes equal to low_nibble_mask[ source[i] & 0x0F ]. The table contains the bytes being searched for, in the elements which correspond to the low 4 bits of these bytes.

The next instruction compares bytes in the source vector for equality with the results of that lookup. So, for each byte in the source vector, the first 3 instructions are computing the following expression, in parallel for each of the 16 bytes in the vector:

bool eq = ( b == low_nibble_mask[ b & 0x0F ] );

The rest is trivial, identifying index of the first byte which compared true.

And one more thing.

> If you have an old SSE2 PC, only the simple SIMD approach is available

That PSHUFB table lookup SSE instruction was introduced in SSSE3 extension. Now in 2024 it’s hard to find an old SSE2 PC which doesn’t also support SSSE3. You gonna need things like Pentium D launched in 2005, or AMD K10 launched in 2007.
Mine too. Beautiful work. The characters. The imagery. The language. Magical. It's published in an anthology that has many other good stories too.
If 20 of the kids spoke Spanish and 2 of the kids spoke English, doesn't it make sense to teach the course in Spanish? Why would the teachers get in trouble?
In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/2945/ , and having heard the adage that "Wars are God's way of teaching Geography to americans", I had just assumed it was some mortal's attempt at a method involving less "collateral damage".
Ted Chiang is extremely recommended to anyone who enjoys inventive fiction. His work borders fantasy and science fiction, switching effortlessly from one topic to the next, with absolute mastery, being thought provoking, sophisticated, yet never stuffy or boring, with his only aim to tell a good story.

If you like Borges, Clarke, Stephenson and others you will love Mr. Chiang. Some of his writing is the best I've read in creative fiction in any genre.
Man oh man, I couldn't agree more. I've been living in Zambia for the last 3 years trying to start an export business. What a nightmare.

I laughed out loud when I read "e-government". The sad truth is countries like Zambia are just not equipped or capable of running anything "e". I am forced to use Zambia's Electronic Single Window (https://zesw.gov.zm/zesw/). What an absolute shambles, a total failure. If you don't know the right individuals in the right departments you're getting nowhere.

From my limited experience the problem is centuries of poor to no education and such an extreme level of poverty that individuals are constantly in survival mode. How can I make it through the next day/week/month vs. family, financial and career planning.

So, if we can wave a "give Africa what it needs" wand, I wouldn't suggest Startup Cities, Cryptocurrencies & E-Governments, rather good quality education, healthcare and just enough financial security to exit survival mode. If you can hand that to Zambia (without the corruption that is there now), you'd likely see a nation flourish and carve their own path to success, probably without "startup cities" too.

P.S. Zambia has Special Economic Zones: https://www.lsmfez.co.zm/. They're fine for large conglomerates who want to save a few kwacha in taxes but are mostly useless to all other small business owners.
>But I wonder how this will end up affecting the bottom line of creators. The more forced ads I see, the less I'll use YouTube, so the less creators will make (even if Google makes the same as I wasn't watching the Ads anyway).

You underestimate the cultural hold youtube has over large parts of the entire population. They could overlay goatse at 50% opacity on every single video and people would still watch it.
Party and beach in the summer, gym and work during winter
Except that URLs are an API surface and congratulations, now you are supporting an infinite API forever.

Vendors change product names, hyperlinks break! Fix bugs or change behavior, hyperlinks break! Do nothing, believe it or not, hyperlinks break!
This company has been pushing a lot of press about this but it's really not anything special. The industry has been printing engines for many years and the time to print is dependent on the size (and to some extent the mass) of the engine and the speed of the printer. Take this with a grain of salt.
Lawyer accused of seeking Israeli hackers to obtain judge's personal emails
The return to office was necessary for Google to have a coherent product strategy \s
Absolutely love 'Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom' by him
Yeah, fair enough, I'll admit what I said was probably reductive, and if you worked on it you certainly know a lot more than I do; obviously the engineers at Canonical aren't idiots and they're not mustache-twirling supervillains. Just to be clear, I did run Ubuntu on my laptop for quite awhile (for about two years starting immediately after ZFS got integrated support), and I did like it, so I don't mean to suggest it was a terrible product.

I guess I'm just always worried about for-profit companies, because their goal isn't necessarily always aligned with the customer's best interest.
Show McDonalds tattoo to end commercial.
I think xkcd has never been arrested by the police and had his belongings searched through illegally. There's more to be afraid of than state actors with the ability to kidnap and torture you without being held to account.
One of my favorite sentences in any book.

“And God sent him to Hell anyway.”
An extremely detailed look at various ways to do bibliographic references in a text. And yes, digital changes everything again.
What differs a short story from a novel is definitely not “economy words and filler content”. The two are very different narratives, structure and concepts. You don’t usually start writing a novel and realize it’s a short story or vice versa. Even if you do, then you rethink your whole structure.

Economy with words and filler content might differentiate a good from a bad novel, but not a novel and short story.
I guess I was more saying that ambiguous laws can cause more harm than good, but then I was basing that on the title of the article of a summary of a translation of a summary of a law, so I'm probably wrong :P
evidenced by the huge variation in word count among his short stories. some are a couple pages, while others are essentially novellas.
Executives from ADHD Startup Arrested, Charged with Fraud
Physical media and one-time payment desktop software are the only enshittification-proof types of digital products left.

I used to love the Google Music app, which did nothing besides play my locally stored music. Then one day I opened it and it had turned into yet another storefront constantly using mobile data to refresh the carousel. Since then, auto-updates have been turned off.

I love being able to reject app updates. Once the app does what I want, updates can only make it worse.
Given how long he's been writing (he sold his first story in 1989), the fact that he's only published 18 short stories and no novels in his entire career probably says a lot about his approach.
What is the license? I searched but could not find anything.
I have to question how many people in 2024 are navigating the internet by going to the address bar and typing “foo.com/thing-im-looking-for”
As others have said, this is a dystopian joke which will likely become a thing, eventually.

But, it's a good reminder to review app privacy settings on your device. Stuff like YouTube probably shouldn't have regular access to your camera.

For iPhones/iPads: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-built-in-privacy-...
I’ve found standardized questions to be useless. I’ve found the best people by reading their cvs carefully. Then reading whatever published work they have. Then asking them to talk about that. If that goes well then I describe the work the team is doing and ask them their thoughts. If I really need validation I have a data problem I send them and ask them to send it back. (I don’t ask people to code in front of me - that’s ridiculous and tells me nothing) The standard problem Id ask was to figure out how to calculate something I describe only conceptually, and then give them a data set to do it on. Most mediocre so called data scientists will throw a bunch of Python libraries at the data and not even think about what was asked. This, sadly, is the state of my profession after 10 years of “boot camps “ and incursions from other disciplines.
This is really cool and I very very very much appreciate that xiph puts so much work into standardization. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mlcodec/documents/

It would be nice if Meta donated this to the world so we have less anchors for patent trolls and can transition the future we deserve.
It's the exact position of anyone who studies ecology and conservation.

Bees are certainly being killed by pesticides.

However, the claim is not about bees. It's about Earth's biodiversity in general. Pesticides are certainly a factor here, but pesticides are not why tuna are overfished, or why elm trees are being wiped out, or why domestic cats are killing songbirds, or why the Amazon rainforest is getting bulldozed, or why polar bears don't have enough ice to hunt seals, etc., etc.
Entire Black Mirror episode on this.

Is this real? Joke?

Asking because this similar idea has been popping up in last few weeks, and wondering if someone is really trying to do it.
Driving Forward in Android Drivers
On the other hand, spreading species of eucalyptus that koalas can eat and also bringing in koalas sounds like an excellent plan!
Protecting third-party credentials: Credential Tokenzation
Good catch. I've updated the post.

EDIT re: your edit: Wow. You're noticing things faster than I can update the post!
Fair and useful. But then how well do tooltips print? Is the printed version complete? If the tooltip is just the citation or footnote, then the printout is complete.
Good call. I've update the post to reflect that.
https://i.imgur.com/OPbRxhK.png

I love (hate) that the figure in the illustration stands up with his arms raised. I wonder what the artist was thinking...
Or walked through any major city. There's cameras ~everywhere.
Interesting - I wonder if it was used as a knowledge test. Everywhere you dig in on the map has inside jokes, plus small and large problems.
I was hoping this had meant he'd written a new story.
I agree with these points, but the "U" is Uniform:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738
I know a red badge director (10-15 years) at Amazon who dipped well below 500k due to the last 4 years of stock prices. Though this recent climb has been great for their morale.
We are far too many:

> members forever without decreasing quality. Over time, the group decays in quality and I often find groups with >100 members unsustainable.

Though there could be a decently small group chat for sufficiently ancient users.
Oh, cool catch! I had Smalahove as a link, so I must have noticed it was a food at some point, but I forgot to actually put the URL in. I didn't realize the connection to Voss, though.
He has also written ~15 short stories over 35 years. Quality over quantity.
Musk says Tesla investors backing pay deal
Indeed, and similar mild, rainy maritime climate.
That was common for consoles at that time. The PS2 couldn’t actually run PS1 games, it just fell back to a PS1 embedded in the system. Same way the GBA played GB/GBC games.

Apple wasn’t a great example but it was the best I could think of. It took Apple 10 years to go from the A4 in the first iPhone with an Apple chip to the M1 in the first Mac. They also were just using Arm, the same instructions that they had been using before and something well understood.

They didn’t suddenly release something people weren’t really prepared for like a Transputer and just declare “this will be everywhere within three years“. They let the switch take its time as necessary.

Sony had the arrogance to do both of those.
The design of the vacuum chamber predates my time, but I'd imagine it has something to with the quality of the spectroscopy data you can collect in that environment.
Eh, the Cell would have been a fantastic processor if it weren't for hitting the end of dennard scaling like a brick wall.

In the design phase they were expecting almost 5ghz at launch, and to hit around 10ghz at the end of the product lifecycle. When the process guys came back later to let the architects know the reality we've sort of now all internalized (high end consumer electronics can expect ~3ghz with good cooling solutions) a lot of simple but fast pipeline designs stopped making sense. These are the exact same pressures that killed off the Netburst architecture too, making intel go back to a PIII design and make it smarter rather than clock markedly faster.
Compared to how much auto makers inflated car prices the past few years?
Probably not much to worry about, a good chunk of it just seems to be fake:

Why fake research is rampant in China
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39499081

The fight against fake-paper factories that churn out sham science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560694

With the common theme being that there's a lot of pressure to publish, and it pisses off the (murderous) ruling party if they don't succeed by publishing. And so there's a really reasonable temptation to cheat to avoid getting disappeared or having your family threatened.
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 arrives with extended support
Postgres Planner Quirks: The impact of ORDER BY and LIMIT on index usage
it's a duck-rabbit and I'm not seeing the other way to read this, mind helping me out?
I am archiving some music at 40kbps using Opus and the quality is pretty amazing. I think once things get over 20+kbps all the codecs start sounding pretty good (relative to the these low bitrates).

I still prefer flac if possible.
Almost nowhere in the American west has high enough population density to make public transportation very practical.

Sure, you could say "don't live like that". But in practice, that's saying to tear down and rebuild an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure.

On the other hand, if it gets too much hotter, a lot of people might leave, and the rebuilding project would get smaller...
Bikes are not great. Ebikes might be able to keep up with traffic but not legally. No bike lanes mean your in traffic with posted speeds of 35-40 MPH and actual speeds of 40-48 MPH.

Not to say I disagree with bikes. Ive got all the parts for an ebike just need to mount them. But its not really viable transport around here if you add in the dangers.
I mean... I guess the issue here is more that Microsoft didn't make customers aware of this flaw, and continued to sell the service.

Which... is exactly the articles point. They knew there was no secure way to administer it, and yet sold it anyway.
Hey, thanks for sharing Millis AI! We're constantly improving to be the fastest voice AI, aiming for the golden standard of 300ms for conversational voice. Anw we're open to feedback and eager to hear how we can improve!
On shared rituals, the ones I like the most are

1. Good mornings. Where it's a norm to post "Good morning" or equivalent at the start of your day. It signals that you're continuing to participate and value the group.

2. @Welcomes. When a new member joins, they are @-ed with a welcome message by the users currently present. It helps expand the join->engage funnel. Some groups have a lot of people show up and then never participate.

3. Wednesday, My Dudes. Where the group plays participates in the same weekly ritual of wishing each other a happy Wednesday. See also: Today Is Friday In California.

In my experience, it's easy to introduce these into a group simply by modeling them. After a week or two of consistent behavior, someone else, and then many others will join in. Obviously one has to read the room first and get a sense it's the right ritual for the group.
You said

> Your opinion is based on hype, not actually understanding the problems.

That's pretty strong wording, easily tantamount to saying it's impossible/improbable
If you don’t trust them, then your act of not giving “software access” does nothing.
That's the wildest hyperbole, although NK is a far cry from Russia.

One or a few ICBMs from NK would likely get shot down by BMD. I hope the US response would be measured, meaning Russia and China would be diplomatically notified before the US wipes Pyongyang and the NK military off the Earth - one hopes avoiding nuclear holocaust.

If the US/Europe and Russia/China have an exchange, it'll be horrific and utterly world-altering.
This is less likely to happen on a device that you control, than on a device that you do not control, but nevertheless depend on.
The lady doth protest too much
I didn't realize they had a YT channel, thanks for the share!
I don't really think that's realistic. I can of course use software from non-profits or something at home, but we all work for a living, and every single job I've had has relied on software from a for-profit company in one way or another.

I guess I don't have to be an engineer, but even if I were to go be a cashier at Taco Bell or something, I would still be stuck using a proprietary POS system.

Unless I want to go live in a unabomber shed off the grid, I'm probably going to be stuck using software made by companies that do bad things. The software world is overwhelmingly run by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Oracle (and probably a few others I'm missing), all of which do bad stuff all the time.
What percentage of interviewers actually work alongside the employees they hire?
I don't understand what you're suggesting. ChromeOS has an extensively documented threat model and it is, quite unarguably, vastly more intimate and well defined than any comparable desktop solution in the FOSS world. ChromeOS also has more tight distribution and product requirements for official devices which helps it even further, even compared to something like Android, because OEMs can't shit it up so easily e.g. longer security lifecycle, open bootloaders, mandatory hardware for verified/secure boot, etc.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
Most people who use this site would use the search bar, which reports errors, and those who directly type it in aren't exactly laypeople.
Link rot is a thing. Scroll around some older reddit threads with links and see how many of them are still active. Site redesigns are often the cause of older links rotting to become no longer valid.
And I'm expressing to OP that they should, especially given the repeal of net neutrality and exposed NSA dragnet programs. Unless we just think a social credit system will magically never make its way to the US and impact every portion of our lives. Imagine getting higher health insurance because your parents browsed websites labeled as unhealthy.
First, Tesla is not legally required to put the driver in control - they are free to indemnify the driver completely and shoulder all of the liability themselves.

Second, who do you think was ultimately the one at fault for the excessive radiation doses caused by the Therac-25 machines: the machine technician operating the machine or the machine manufacturer? If it isn't the technician then I don't understand your argument because you can just find/replace every instance of driver in your post with technician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25