skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CrowdStrike followed up with Delta on the offer for onsite support and was told that the onsite resources were not needed

> Even though Microsoft's software had not caused the CrowdStrike incident, Microsoft immediately jumped in and offered to assist Delta at no charge following the July 19 outage," the letter said. "Each day that followed from July 19 through July 23, Microsoft employees repeated their offers to help Delta. Each time, Delta turned down Microsoft's offers to help, even though Microsoft would not have charged Delta for this assistance

Two vendors offer you free on-site help, during the biggest outage in history, and you turn it down?

This isn't the CIA, it's Delta Airlines. Bring those overpriced security monkeys in, make em sign an NDA, and have them sit there and watch you type.

To not do that... even if they were useless... I can't find a justification ....... other than being able to later claim it wasn't Delta's fault it was down so long, and nobody having evidence to the contrary.
Hi everyone,

I'm Connor with Vessal, and we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves. Consider it a soft launch, as there is (always) still more work to be done.

I'll start off by saying that Vessal's aim is to bring forth a suite of offerings centering around privacy and security for modern-day practices—coined, "Liberatech."

Our first "offering" is Viae, our private and secure transportation arm that will initially take form as an extension to the existing infrastructure laid in place by the major three US carriers: USPS, UPS, and FedEx. Think of Viae as a “VPN for transportation,” with the goal over time to become self-sufficient (e.g., an ISP versus a VPN—not relying on other carriers) and more representative of an anonymizing network.

For now, we are just launching throughout the main Texas metros: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin.

All in all, we would really appreciate you stopping by and checking us out, and please feel free to ask any questions. (Feedback is most welcome!)

Connor
> need to be able to round up $GROUP when the order comes down. I'm sure everyone has a group to fill in there

The history of police keeping lists of people to round up isn't terrific.
I will never understand people who say that mortality is what gives life a meaning.
It is exactly opposite. If I can't observe effects of my actions (and most likely "I" would not be able to do so after death), then it does not matter for me what I do during life, since outcome is all the same.

There should be no death. For whatever reason, it is incredibly hard to find people thinking the same, despite, paradoxially no one wants to die.

Can we chat? My e-mail is in the profile.
> it's continued to the point where the general public now thinks that we're the good guy's no matter what

What? We're in a period of peak civic cynicism.
What does jailbreaking have to do with memory safety? I thought the cpu that will only boot signed binaries was the end of jailbreaking

I, for one, would appreciate a device that isn't riddled with memory bugs that are exploitable principally by nation states; one might say buggy code is the backdoor free software folk are so paranoid about
My experience is diagonally opposite. I haven’t written Scala for a while now, I guess a year or two by now, and just a few days ago got back to it because the logic I wanted to express was hard to fit in to Java, Kotlin, C#, Go. I have certain performance and correctness requirements and most stuff is JVM based. So I thought like okay, I can isolate it in a service and invoke from another JVM, but let me just try to express my type families and the algos the easy way around, and whoosh I see Scala compile and give me the correct results on my first attempt.

That was a bit of a surprise - I’d forgotten how expressive Scala is. I didn’t need any “advanced” type system features. But my time to market was literally a couple hours instead of days like with C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, bending to fit the logic into the confines of their type systems. Kotlin is just awesome and very expressive. But it turns out, to me, Scala is somehow very natural - just write what you think, and it works.

Interestingly, that was also my experience many years ago when I first exposed myself to Scala in a numerical analysis class just to avoid Java, and it just worked right away. I recall well that surprised feeling. So I’m kinda happy to move back to Scala now. But I’ll also try to implement the same in F#, right after delivering the next feature set.
There are always downsides:

your personal card can get fraud-flagged, which is a huge pain to fix.

It can also get banned by Stripe/Braintree/etc, which will really mess things up until your bank issues you a new card number.

Never use a personal card for testing, maybe with the exception of being the sole proprietor of the business or if it's a hobby project.
> "My brother has MS, and my sister is a few years from a diagnosis. It's nice to know money is being spent on dementia treatments, a disease that almost exclusively affects the elderly already near end-of-life, when that money could be going toward researching cures for diseases affecting people with much more of their lives to live."

Sounds reasonable.

> At best, there'd be an enormous amount of resources wasted on duplication of efforts.

Isn't science about reproducibility?
One of the most constant lessons of literature and mythology is that people who dedicate themselves to becoming immortal inevitably spend their life harming others.
IPMI?
This is correct. All pistol shooters just wear shirts. All of them have their hand in their pocket. If you don't have astigmatism you can get away without the fancy eyeglass holder, and just use regular glasses. The lack of blinder is somewhat impressive, because most people will get a headache after too long without an opaque blinder on the off eye.

Meanwhile in rifle it's all $2k kit of rigid jacket and pants. If you aren't using the rigid jacket and pants, you will get absolutely wrecked. Your score will be lower, and your back will get injured in the long run because of the contortionist posting when holding the 13 pound rifle up for hours. It's not possible to be competitive without it.
Persian gold coins found at site of ancient Greek city in Turkey
If people only died by accident, it implies the absence of murder, which implies either a state of enlightenment or non-humanness. I doubt we can meaningfully conjecture on such a world.
One would like to hope that the more clever aspiring rapist-murderers will clue in that their DNA will catch up to them and that their time on the loose will be shorter and shorter.
Reminds me of:

> Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples

>
We propose and explore the possibility that language models can be studied as effective proxies for specific human sub populations in social science research. Practical and research applications of artificial intelligence tools have sometimes been limited by problematic biases (such as racism or sexism), which are often treated as uniform properties of the models. We show that the "algorithmic bias" within one such tool -- the GPT 3 language model -- is instead both fine grained and demographically correlated, meaning that proper conditioning will cause it to accurately emulate response distributions from a wide variety of human subgroups. We term this property "algorithmic fidelity" and explore its extent in GPT-3. We create "silicon samples" by conditioning the model on thousands of socio demographic backstories from real human participants in multiple large surveys conducted in the United States. We then compare the silicon and human samples to demonstrate that the information contained in GPT 3 goes far beyond surface similarity. It is nuanced, multifaceted, and reflects the complex interplay between ideas, attitudes, and socio cultural context that characterize human attitudes. We suggest that language models with sufficient algorithmic fidelity thus constitute a novel and powerful tool to advance understanding of humans and society across a variety of disciplines.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899
He actually came in 13th, individually. His silver came from a team event.
> You can no longer leverage the bigger ecosystem (e.g. just copy HTML templates from libraries

You can definitely do this with FastHTML: https://h2x.answer.ai/
ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, NASA says
I don’t think I’ve dropped a glass or plate on my slate floor the entire time I’ve lived at my house - 10 years now. I think my wife maybe has once or twice.

Ya’ll are clumsy.
I think it’s absolutely bonkers that CrowdStrike software is basically an RCE
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
They did supply Windows, and Microsoft is the one throwing shade.
Forget quantillions of years, It would be nice to live a few centuries without the ravages of old age.
There's a few ways first party cookies can track you. Probably the biggest single way is Google Analytics which by default uses only first party cookies. Even without cookies at all, GA could track you across the web although first party cookies do make this a little easier and "better". However, first party cookies can help trackers in other ways like for CNAME cloaking[1] which basically makes a first-party cookie function similarly to a third-party one.

Disclosure: I work for a small privacy focused ad company.

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/11338/cname-cloaking-and-bounce-trac...
A quantum leap is actually a tiny event e.g. an electron energy level transition
From what I have read the magnetic mapping it not enough for a position. It needs additional information to limit the possible positions. So the technology could be fairly accurate on a train or car. On a ship or airplane with an imperfect current position and course assumption it may not be very accurate and even drift over time.
Sometimes it's the best way to respond to your critics. (Please educate your precious snowflake about the historic 1976 Nelson Rockefeller salute)

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rockefeller-middle-finger-1... - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nelson+rockefeller+dole+finger&ia=...

And the Norman Rockwell painting. https://www.artpublikamag.com/post/the-sweet-story-behind-no...
Sun, Mail, Mirror, Express and Independent roll out 'consent or pay' walls
> I mean you're free to fork and continue developing X11; right now there is nobody with both the capability and the desire to do so.

OpenBSD Xenocara
I don't define "privacy" as "only a single company has access to all my stuff", so to me Apple's claims are just marketing. I'd buy an argument about good security and some protection against other companies, just not "privacy".
Compromise Coin
The most compelling argument I’ve seen for cryptocurrency is current forms of electronic money are too easy for governments to monitor and restrict, which creates unacceptable risks of authoritarianism. But then convenience of electronic money means that alternatives are disappearing.

The hope is that cryptocurrency could give us payments that are as convenient as Apple Wallet, and as anonymous as a pocketful of quarters.

However most cryptocurrencies are terrible at this use case. They are too slow, too expensive, too volatile, too vulnerable to theft, and often not even particularly anonymous. What Cryptocurrency is great at is scams, speculation, and cybercrime.

So could we create an online payment system that was good at what paper money used to be good at, and bad at crime? To be good at replacing paper money, you’d want it to be reliably anonymous, cheap, and fast. To make it bad at scams, you’d want it to not support large long distance transactions.

I’m not a cryptocurrency expert, but my hunch is that you could do pretty well by doing something along the following lines::

* Register with a bank, and verify your identity and physical location.

* Purchase a limited amount of “e-cash” (e.g. $1000/month) tagged with a physical region, where the amount you are allowed to purchase depends on how close you live to that region. Call the the e-ATM.

* Use slow distributed protocols to route these coins through tumblers, turning them into anonymous coins in anonymous wallets - where these new coins and wallets are still tagged with your original location.

* At payment time, quickly transfer a coin to another person by sending a request to the bank that issued the original coin. The bank doesn’t know who owns the sending or receiving wallet, but can verify that the coin hasn’t already been spent and update their centralized ledger of which anonymous wallet it is in.

* Route the coins you receive through another round of tumblers.

* Withdraw coins at your validated personal bank, subject to location specific withdrawal limits.

In essence, you’ve got an anonymous cryptocurrency, but the ingress and egress rules combined with location segreation make it hard to move large amounts of money long distances. To make large long distance transactions, you’d have to arrange for lots of people to agree to perform “black market” exchanges of different local coins - and anything that requires coordinating large numbers of people gets hard.

So what am I missing?

Substack version here: https://messyprogress.substack.com/p/mini-posts-collection-3-august-2024
If you keep missing "deadlines", you aren't planning properly. You can always take more work for a sprint, don't overcommit.

Product Owner is just the one who prioritises the features the team implements, they're the one whose job is to know what the client wants and translate it to more technical terms and individual features.

Sprint planning is just... planning what you'll do for the spring? Don't you usually plan your projects or do you just YOLO it? Standups can be just two lines of text in a daily Slack thread, but usually it's handier to just gather around and go through what you did and what you'll be doing.

Demos are the best part of Scrum, you get to show what you accomplished to people who understand the client's requirements and you'll get immediate feedback for the next sprint.

What kind of project model do you like if Scrum is The Devil Incarnate? Who takes care of customer requirements? Do you plan your time use? How do you teach other people in the company not to bother the team during implementation?
Some people see death from aging as eventually being curable. Obviously, something is going to kill you sooner or later. But why must it be old age? Assuming you survive long enough, who wants to spend their last years in body that's breaking down, with diminished cognitive and physical abilities?
They are often called "quantum compasses" although they are complete inertial measurement units which have an accelerometer, magnetometer (a compass is a magnetometer), and a gyroscope.

The subtle parts of the magnetic field of the Earth shift a lot related to the movement of metal through the mantle. NOAA and the DoD periodically create new maps of the magnetic field, but they have a lot of error and noise.
Why would you use this on the frontend? anything that requires auth tokens should never be used on the front end, You would be using this on your own server
You can't just go anywhere and work. You need to hold a work VISA. If you go anywhere in Europe, you're not allowed to stay longer than 90 days in a 180 day period. Every country will require a work VISA and they are not that easy to get. Expect a huge pay cut compared to a US salary.

I suppose if you're self employed you can go anywhere but there are legal limits to the time you are allowed to stay in almost every country. This is not a planet where one can just work and live where ever they want.

Want to do something wild, Ukraine's International Legion is looking for people. It seems to meet your requirements of culture, outdoors, tech, and /or ease of visas.
> In an eternity all individual events lose their meaning. An endless life is a meaningless life

One, we don't get an eternity. It's thermodynamically impossible.

Two, we're mortal beings with mortal minds. Our trying to comprehend--let alone judge--what an immortal being would consider meaningful is hubris.

Three, how does this scale? Is a child's life more meaningfully if it ends early? Why is our present life and healthspan the sole optimum?
So I won't tell you to keep reading like others (which you should), but these studies don't work by some research scientist having an HIV+ blood IV at the ready with some "you might notice a little prick" trope, they offer these medications to people that are already in high-risk groups and are conducting activities that make them the most likely demographic to obtain or transmit HIV. Folks like promiscuous homosexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts (risk of sharing needles), and focus groups like that.
A pool full of sharks won't have many drownings, either.

Also, you all survived, but dead kids aren't able to represent themselves in this conversation.
Meaningless for whom or for what? There is no meaning separate from a subject.
> containerized .Net and Java

Gross. If that's the alternative I would rather stick with mainframes. People forget that it's perfectly fine and even better to just run code directly in many cases.
Both Selenium and Playwright are very solid tools, a lot simply comes down to choice and experience.

One of the benefits of using Selenium is the extensive ecosystem surrounding it. Things like Selenium grid make parallel and cross-browser testing much easier either on self hosted hardware or through services like saucelabs.
Playwright can be used with similar services like browserstack but AFAIK that requires an extra layer of their in-house SDK to actually make it work.

Selenium also supports more browsers, although you can wonder how much use that is given the Chrome dominance these days.

Another important difference is that Playwright really is a test automation framework, where Selenium is "just" a browser automation library. With Selenium you need to bring the assertion library, testrunner, reporting in yourself.
Why would they give up the profit? What's your rationale here?

Cure = $X

If the treatment is daily then it's $X/365 if it's monthly the price is $X/12 if it's twice a year it's $X/2

Imagine being an exec at that company and being like "let's give up 50/52 of our profit because it's more convenient for the patient"? How many hours would it take between giving that speech and getting fired, do you think?
Mechanical sympathy is understanding the system, not using the shiniest thing. If you want low latency processing of one event at a time, you are either going to burn an entire core spinning or you are going to do a syscall for each operation. The io_uring syscalls are not especially fast — they get their awesomeness by doing, potentially, a whole lot of work per operation. And, for some use cases, by having a superior async IO model.

But if you actually just want read(), then call read().
Hunting typically has less precision requirements, relative to bullseye shooting. Bullseye shooting can get pretty extreme in the level of precision required.

A bullseye rifle competitor at 200 yards lying down is generally unhappy with a shot that is more than 1.5" away from the centerpoint.

A deer's vital area is like over 5" from centerpoint. Even varmint hunters have bigger targets.

I don't hunt, but I compete at bullseye and practice at a range with a lot of hunters, and we routinely get into discussions of how what I need to be good at (precision stuff) has like literally nothing to do with what they need to be good at (mostly, finding the critters, and not spooking them).
I don't want to sound mystical or religious, but 'self' really is an illusion. It is a word that pops up in the LLM of our brain. It is a word that describes what we perceive as happening. What "we" really are are our thoughts and especially memories. And they can live on beyond our physical death. But does that make us happy? Of course everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no-one wants to die. But rationally thinking, 'self' is an illusion.

StarTrek taught us that you can transfer Kirk and Spock to a different place by re-assembling their atoms in a different place. But is it really the same Spock that pops up there? Or a copy? A copy obviously. Such a copy cam then live on practically forever because they could always re-assemble a younger Spock. But since it is aa copy would Spock really be happy that his copy lives on forever? Yes I believe if he thinks about it rationally. And Spock does.
NASA have since clarified its software-parameterization not software that would need to be changed for uncrewed undock and return
There's 3 extensions which I consider must-haves:

- Noscript Security Suite which has made it very obvious how absolutely fucked today's web is (there's sites which can't display static text without js, as though HTML and CSS are insufficient to display styled text with some markup).

- uBlock Origin because obviously.

- Multi-account Containers, which aren't quite as good as profiles, but get like 70% of the way there.
Reader Q&A: What does it mean to initialize an int?
My card has my picture. If an employee is going to look at it, then no reader needed. And you point out that they used to do this. What is the reader accomplishing then?
Yes, should perhaps change the title to "argumentation".
I mean the extra 8 bytes of RAM per pointer, every time you store an object in memory that refers to another object, or that points to a vtable. No amount of register size will get around that.
Love it! Have you seen the signals proposal? Just learned no-build-step preact, but between signal and these examples, I might not bother for my next project.

https://github.com/proposal-signals/signal-polyfill
Loss is cumulative. After so many scars life can start to feel like a burden.
I'm torn between the argument that the gift of life is such a precious one that eliminating death is one of the most virtuous endeavors at all – and the other argument where this is peak escapism and a fundamental not-getting-it-what-life-is-about.

At least one can be sure: Death is such a fundemantal part of life that every social norm we take for granted (thus not even noticing it exists) will be uprooted.

Technically that doesn't need to be a bad thing. It just makes it so much more likely that advocats of ending death are overlooking the bad parts.

Plus, I can't think of a scenario where, once this technology exists to extend life indefinetly, the state's monopoly on power won't turn into a dystopian monopoly on life.
Which is even more worrying considering that this happens as far fewer people walk to school.

https://walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Fina...

"""
In 1969, 48 percent of students in grades K through eight (ages 5 through 14) walked or bicycled to school.

In 2017, only 11 percent of students in grades K through eight walked or bicycled to school.

In 1969, 89 percent of students in grades K through eight who lived within one mile of school usually walked or bicycled to school.

In 2009, only 35 percent of students in grades K through eight who lived within a mile of school usually walked or bicycled to school even once a week
"""
Is there any stock TOS/Privacy Policy for a typical SaaS? I feel like the requirements for most are similar, and they tend to cover a superset of things in case the business pivots later.

I did hire a lawyer to write one for me and got some nonsense irrelevant references to mobile apps and user created content, full of typos, so back to the start... (to be clear, the extra clauses weren't the issue, but a template full of typos seems inherently less trustworthy to me than a random template without typos)
Or perhaps, lives being so long, there wouldn’t be any perceived difference between dying at a hundred and a thousand years old.

Today, a twenty-something dying in a car crash after drinking alcohol is as stupid and preventable as deaths gets. And we known that people drive more safely later in their lives. And yet, we let twenty-somethings get a driving license and drive a car around.