skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The signal-to-noise ratio on the modern web makes these kind of summaries elusive to find unless you are reading chip app notes regularly.

Cheers, =3
The CMD FD-4000 Floppy Drive's Can Convert Disks from HD (1.4MB) to ED (3.2MB)
Does anyone know of any websites that let you download entire suno playlists?
I've seen song downloaders but I've yet to find one that lets you download whole playlists. can someone find or make one? either comment here or dm me on myminifactory: @NightmareNest
Right before the pandemic there was a big furrycon happening right in front of where I was living in Melbourne. Was chill.
You should check with your organization’s security team before using this on code you don’t personally own.
Sure, we can attribute all unfortunate outcomes to Aristotilian vices, but as engineers we have learned that these traits are constant, and may be ameliorated through systems, processes, and policies.

Attributing misfortune to vice is nihilism.
Are they really, though? Was he actually remembering them exactly? Did anyone check? Or was he just experiencing the feeling of remembering them? I can sometimes experience the feeling of "remembering" completely fake things in dreams which feel very real in the moment, even after waking up. I have to sit back and think about them for a bit and sort through whether they were actual memories or just plot points within the dream. I wonder if a similar mechanism could be in play once the brain starts breaking down.
> Maybe if I want to send my friend $5 Paypal or whatever can do that, but what fintech is actually taking market share from them at merchants?

UPI, Pix, FedNow and many others make direct payment much easier. In Brazil is now more common to accept Pix and not accept credit card than the opposite, although almost everywhere accepts card. But literally everywhere accepts Pix (and every app that uses it).
Never apologize, never explain.

-- OR --

"It's a good rule in life never to apologize. The right kind of people never want apologies, and the wrong kind take advantage of them."

a bit mangled. Full details:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/01/24/explain-friends/
I’ve seen people generate craggy height maps then do erosion simulations to generate terrain.
I mean, presumably it's a "bot war" because there are multiple competing parties, all using automation:

* Direct recruiters using automated tools to post job ads, filter resumes and respond to applicants.

* Third-party recruiters using automated tools to scrape job boards for openings and create duplicates

* New entrant job boards scraping popular job boards, to create simulated activity.

* Identity thieves, automatically duplicating legitimate ads to gather PII

* Applicants using LLMs to fill out application forms and write cover letters.
Do prisons offer any kind of accommodations for people with food allergies, gluten intolerance, etc.?
>nutriloaf as described is simulated poison

Cut the hyperbole. From the description in the OP it just flavorless with bad texture. It's not great but nowhere close to "simulated poison" or "mock execution".

>it makes the inmate feel like they are starving even though they aren't.

Where is this from? The OP specifically mentions that he "felt so full and lethargic that I skipped dinner and the following breakfast".
Stories that might help.

Back in the 1980s I was tasked with writing a system to use a handheld computer to track the manual inspection of Fire Equipment (Extinguishers, Hoses, etc) at various locations across fossil fuel based generating stations.

The very first version was hard-coded to the questions they supplied. My initial estimate was 1 month, it took 2. It met the requirements we agreed to, but it was totally unusable. Any changes to the questions required changes to the source code.

I ended up providing them with a set of forms they could use to edit questions. (This is back in the days of MS-DOS, so it was all in a TUI). To handle the ability to actually add/remove questions, I provided a set of choices for question types (Yes/No, or a number)

Then I provided 2 options, the step number to go to if the right answer was given, and the step to go to if the wrong answer was given.

It wasn't perfectly safe, they could jump to a non-existent step number, but it was easy to comprehend, so they didn't have issues fixing their own errors.

It worked well enough to set up for 10 other stations, and paid my bills for a few years.

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Another time, the Account Managers at the Consulting Firm I worked at wanted a number of reports, all of the same general format, but with specifications that varied all over the map.

I built an SQL Query generator for them in Microsoft Access, that built (based on their selections) and showed (and allowed them to directly edit) the resulting SQL query. They were then able to cut/paste and save the queries that they liked, and build new ones on the fly.

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If you can build a tool for them that lets them define some event, then a series of steps that should happen afterwards... they can manage the business logic directly.

Your task isn't to make it perfectly safe, but transparent enough so they can understand and build a mental model of how it acts, so they can manipulate it safely.

They need to be able to see the current rules, and perhaps even play with them in a reversible way, to test out new ideas.
I don’t read it as a revenge fantasy so much as indifference and an unwillingness to work for them to improve their conditions. I get that it would be better for society if we all worked harder to treat criminals better to lower the recidivism rate to protect ourselves from subsequent crime, but it’s also a hard sell to ask people to give up their limited time with family, friends, hobbies and interests, and go do that actual work. Is it those people’s fault if someone they dont know commits a crime? What society has ever existed without deviant behavior?

I think the proof of that unwillingness to dedicate time is in the pudding. Do you work to make inmates better food, or make their kitchen more inviting? Does anyone responding indignantly to OP? This food critic wrote this thinkpiece based on their little adventure, then they’re going to go back to their enlightened culinary experiences at Naha et al. So what have they really accomplished?

It almost reads as condescending towards inmates: a bunch of high society types gawking and pontificating from afar about how positively terrible their living conditions are. Oh and also, did you hear about Crowdstrike and Harris and the new way to build a UI with Javascript? It’s like overhearing conversation taking place between a couple of people from Google on a team building field trip to the zoo.

I’d love to be wrong and come back here and read a piece about how some rich tech bros decided to revolutionize a correctional facility’s food system. But until I see that I see no reason to change my opinion on the behavior I’m seeing right now.
OMG one must wonder about a system that produces this article and especially these comments. If you are interested in this area you might consider:

* Hidden Order by John Holland. Especially if you are technical, then read it from the perspective of "how would I build one of these"? (See RIP).

* Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. An overwhelming book. At the very least you should come out aware of how little we understand.

* What is money? Really. We all know the mythical person month perspective, but according to that New York City can not exist.

* The RIP routing protocol.

* A New Kind of Science.

Gestalts, created from complex adaptive systems, surround us. (Inside joke). I think this is an example of the old adage "I won't see it until I believe it" which is just a simplified version of Sapir Whorf.

[edit: add Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" ]
Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry
I was actually thinking of buspar although [Edit: redacted confusion between metoprolol and propranolol].
i'd say reddit is a pretty great example, twitter, even instagram or facebook comments, where bot generated traffic and comments are a norm.

you have plenty of bot or "AI/LLM" generated content, that is consumed -- up to and including things like "news".

as for the comment about movies, i'm confused -- CGI has been a thing for a long time, and "AI" has been used to convey aging or how a person might look given some conditions, on screen, as well as a whole host of things.

while this might not be an LLM, it is certainly computer generated, predictive, and artificially generated.
What sorts of things can you pay for with VISA/MasterCard that you can't pay for with Paypal?
> these are people who for the most part caused great harm to others so I have no problem with this.

There are many forms of crimes, dar say majority, that don't cause great harm to others (eg theft, drug possession). For those, and the > 0% falsely/wrongfully incarcerated, you should have empathy in general for prisoners and expect humane conditions.
Except that in America, most prisoners are worse criminals when they come out then when they went in. The system stupidly creates a self-perpetuating problem. Mostly because of our f*ked up puritanical morals.
FedNow instant payments will eventually replace the majority of credit card volume, as has happened in India with UPI and Brazil’s PIX. Takes time to bootstrap this infra across the financial ecosystem. Pix even supports cross border payments natively.

https://www.thebanker.com/Brazil-s-Pix-a-threat-to-credit-ca...

https://www.pymnts.com/news/cross-border-commerce/cross-bord...

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazils-pix-payment...

> "I think credit cards will cease to exist at some point soon," central bank chief Roberto Campos said nearly two years ago, discussing the potential for open finance and the Pix platform. "This system eliminates the need to have a credit card."

> Market trends have since added weight to his forecast.
Use of Pix surged 74% last year to nearly 42 billion payments across the Brazilian economy — surpassing credit and debit card charges combined by about 23%, according to central bank data and industry group Abecs.

> For buyers, the switch to Pix has been nearly seamless, as they simply scan a QR code with any banking app instead of reaching for their wallet. But for sellers, it has turned the tables on the traditionally lucrative card payments industry.
Many European companies have — or more often, had — their own, national equivalents.
But I don’t think this is something groundbreaking isn’t it? Similar to dating apps, when the pool is enormous It’s very cheap to keep the options open. With the automation and growing value of the personal data, everyone should keep that in mind when applying for a job.
Also, I suspect there is a reason but the responders are too lazy or
are too ashamed to provide it. My wild guess would be, as cited as before: this position has been allocated but it almost cost nothing to keep it open to farm data and to keep perception that the business is growing.
That Helix reminded me of this old game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(video_game)

except it really is a helix and not a cylinder like a Tempest level. Still would be fun to fight bugs in.
Not all law breaking is created equal. It's a sad state of affairs when people can't distinguish gradations and treat everyone as the worst case they can imagine.
Most normal shops.

I don't think I've ever seen a physical shop that accepts PayPal.
“‘Someday Starliner could be a backup to a Dragon mission,’ Stich added.”

This is a lie, and it’s disturbing seeing a NASA leader repeat it.

Starliner is stupid. It launches exclusively on the Atlas V [1]. Atlas V is being discontinued because it runs on the Russian RD-180 [2]. Every remaining Atlas V launch has already been sold [3]. If Dragon were grounded, the only way Starliner could serve as a back-up would be if NASA sacrificed a future Starliner mission.

Boeing has no plans to mate Starliner to a modern launch vehicle. Based on its track record, it would likely cost the company hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. All to be an also-ran.

[1] https://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/launch/innovations.ht...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V
Arguably, the fact that the game of life was made is an emergent property of biology, and thus chemistry, and thus physics, etc.
A also "Never understood why people go grocery shopping to make their own food for $25 when they can go to a restaurant for a $200 meal, or go through the gabage behind the restaurant to pick up some throwaway scraps for nearly free."
As always, journalists blaming tech for everything bad, this time unemployment.

Higher interest rates makes money more scarse, section 174 makes hiring programmers too expensive, high inflation makes everyone poorer… but sure, it must be the evil AI!
Why and how will it “collapse”?

If you want to use the “printing money” analogy because you can’t grok the correct credit and debit process then you have to accept that taxation “shreds money” and saving money (which is what a deficit is) “puts it in a drawer”.

How does people putting money in a drawer cause a problem?
> don't cause great harm to others (eg theft)

That’s a matter of opinion. 2/3s of America cannot afford a $400 emergency expense. If you steal and crash someone’s car, and that causes the individual to lose their job while the insurance is being figured out, their kids could spend the next few months in serious suffering.

What about smaller crimes, like shoplifting? 44% of our economy is small businesses; steal from them when they are already at the edge of a knife, treat it like it’s nothing, and you’ll break real families.

You have no conception of how much a “small” theft can injure most people.

As for drug possession; that imprisonment is quite possibly the best thing you can do for them compared to them overdosing on a street corner. Any mother would have their child eat Nutraloaf for 5 years straight than overdose on a public road.
Only a government has sufficient power to disrupt the Visa/Mastercard duopoly as a payment network, and even then only within its borders. See what India did with UPI to mandate a single interface for bank-to-bank transfers and a single app for payments. The EU also kind of muddled its way through with SEPA and there are country-specific transfer methods like Interac in Canada.

I’ve wondered why a network the size of Stripe has not issued its own currency to bypass the Visa/Mastercard middleman. Maybe political pressure? If SaaS vendors used a SaaS specific currency to settle payments for software subscriptions, that would have petrodollar implications for global currencies markets. In countries where even food and transportation is paid for by a software subscription this could finally jump the barrier which crypto failed to cross: being able to actually pay for everyday stuff like bread and milk with internet money.
I drunk Soylent (and nothing else) for a month. The taste matches the taste described in the article closely. But it was marketed as food for successful startupers, not as punishment for prisoners. So it's all psychology.
Groceries, transport tickets, hotels, restaurants, cash withdrawals
it would not surprise me thought that the type of person designing this sort of prison food would believe the whole "soyboy" myth.
The non-appearance of "monstrous psychopaths" is only part of it. I
don't know much about Eichmann but there's a rather good treatment of
the Nuremberg trials in the Adam Curtis documentary The Living Dead
[0], in which Hermann Göring is shown as setting a tone that later
resurfaces with Eichmann and in the Truth and Reconciliation hearings
of post-apartheid South Africa and many other trials of atrocities and
war crimes - namely an intransigent adherence to the defence that
"everything was done legally".

I don't think any culture has fully digested the implications or had
the courage to approach the questions Nuremberg and subsequent trials
posed 80 years ago; where does the law run out? When does it become
not just okay but morally necessary to defect/rebel/rise-up against
your own side, and its so-called "laws" when it's become degenerate
and run by criminals ?

In this way I don't think the difficult issue is that evil is banal
(as in C. R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" [2]) but that it's "everyday,
procedural and institutionally backed". It's defended by social
organisations held dear, right up until a point of collapse and pivot
of history when those institutions themselves become seen as evil.

Eichmann and Göring went beyond "Kadavergehorsam" [1] and were
indignant that anyone dare judge them. Göring tried to school the
judges in moral philosophy.

I don't think anyone is comfortable revisiting this topic, especially
as it's still relevant and playing out today in at least two theatres
of war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Dead_(TV_series)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse-like_obedience

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning
I've dabbled in trying to do procedural generation in the past (in particular to make good looking trees), and I feel like the missing component (to me) was easy ways to connect geometry. It's easy to make two cylinders, but then trying to join them together is very hard.

In theory CSG can fill this niche, but it can be a bit difficult to think about the problem in that way (for me, at least) since you can no longer view it as just for looping to add vertices, but you instead need to model everything as a 3d shape.

I tried building some routines to take two loops of vertices and connect them through heuristics by adding faces, but I had a hard time getting it to work well (choosing which vertices should connect was much harder than I expected, it was easy to get really bad looking connections).

What I really want to do someday is make a game where there is a system for different modular procedural generation systems to work together in a way that allows for spontaneity. So e.g., systems could "claim" slices of the world, delegate parts of it to other systems (e.g., put some plant here) and connect with other adjacent things.
Hmmm. What about the pencil shavings? Makes me wonder if the story is true.
Alas, people don't want to spend money to make prison better and some particularly want prison to be as bad as legally possible (or worse), under the impression that it will deter criminal behavior.
Hiring at Meta is like this. You pass the onsite interview before you even get to “team matching” which means they don’t even know they need you yet when you’ve passed the interviews.

> applying to 60 jobs and only hearing back from two

Really makes you wonder what “service” these job platforms are providing if a significant amount of their jobs are fake.
https://archive.ph/Lsb6x
fwiw here in europe I don't think you - or anyone - is going to find a job online any more, and even through networking it's very unlikely to find a job, since there are virtually no (real) openings any more. Basically nobody is hiring, and those who are, aren't paying anything worthwhile.
The carbon plant pulling CO2 from thin air [video]
Julia is less "general-purpose" and I know little about the quality of its codegen (it does target LLVM but I haven't seen numbers that place it exactly next to C or C++ which is the case with C#).

Mojo team's blog posts do indicate they care about optimal compiler output, and it seems to have ambitions for a wider domain of application which is why it is mentioned.
I have children, and it’s always more work for me to give them consequences for bad behavior than to let it slide. The examples given in the article for why prisoners are put on the nutraloaf program seem pretty reasonable, especially if it’s effective at curbing recidivism.
Ditched Xylitol for Monk Fruit Sugar. No more upset stomach, and it tastes better.
Same benefits as Xylitol but none of the risks.
It is a seemingly outlandish claim.

Even in just the C world, for instance, profiling tools are able to trace all the function calls to determine how many times they are called, how much time is spent, and to recover the call graph information.

The --ftrace option in cosmpolitan shares a name with a Linux kernel function tracing mechanism.

What Justine may mean is that it's done in some new, unusual way; e.g. other than patching the initial instructions of functions to branch somewhere.
Wonder if it’s some psyops so people start wondering: “look at how these old people are abusing Medicare, we need to repeal“.
For that matter, it won't autocomplete "Biden resigns" or "Biden steps down" or "Biden drops out" either.

Or "Kamala Harris campaign" or "Kamala harris president".

Maybe the autocomplete team all got moved to some AI thing and nobody's updating anymore...
You can read the history section of MasterCard and Visa on Wikipedia. MasterCard started as an aliance of several American banks, Visa as a Bank of America product licenced to other banks. Both solve the problem of merchants having to only deal with a handful of credit card types rather than with thousands of bank-specific cards that their customers might be using (the US alone has thousands of banks).

They've been exploiting 2-sided market network effects even before the internet existed: merchants feel pressured to accept them because that what all their customers use; customers use them because that's what all the merchants accept.
What it seems like you are specifically talking about is advertising? Content marketing is just having the right collateral in the right channel at the right time, this can be as simple as making sure you have stickers at a meetup. SEO the way we did it at DigitalOcean is probably still possible (that is high quality tutorials about relevant tech), but that is an expensive undertaking and you have to ride it out if you're going to do it (+ find someone like Etel Sverdlov).
Eyes Closed, Head First, Can't Lose
I'm looking through what I have access to quickly.

I started with the CSA's Cloud Controls Matrix, just because they trace to a bunch of other standards. They have a control - IAM-07 - that is to "de-provision or respectively modify access of movers / leavers or system identify changes in a timely manner in order to effectively adopt and communicate identity and access management policies". This control points to other sources.

One standard that I have access to, CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1, calls for a process that disables or deletes accounts and revoking access "immediately upon termination, rights revocation, or role change of a user". I believe v8.1 is the latest version.

The Trust Services Criteria mapping is to CC5.3 and CC6.3. This defers to defined organizational policies and procedures and doesn't specify any timelines.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27002:2022 mapping is A.5.15 and A.5.18. This is identified as a gap in earlier versions of these standards. I don't have ready access to these standards, so I can't tell you if they give any timelines.

The NIST 800-53 rev 5 mappings are to AC-2 (1, 2, 6, 8), AC-3 (8), AC-6 (7), AU-10 (4), AU-16 (1), and CM-7 (1). All of these appear to defer to organizationally-defined timing and frequency for review.

The NIST CSF v2.0 mapping is to GV.RR-04, GV.SC-10, PR.AA-01, and PR.AA-05. The most relevant ones are the PR.AA controls and they both defer to organizational policies for definitions.

As far as I can tell, most standards simply require that a company defines their policies and procedures and then certification or audit against that standard would only ensure that the documented policies are being followed. If you wanted to implement the "immediate", one way to do it would be to document that as your process (optionally by adopting the CIS Critical Security Controls, but you may or may not want to adopt the whole set) and then have it in a SOC 2 Type 2 audit where the auditor would sample people who have left the organization and when their access was revoked.
we really need a chicken rice & broccoli gym bro to comment on it...