skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is strange (even if not serious). Like, what do you expect?

If the provider deletes data in this situation, people complain. If the provider hosts data for free, there are people who still complain (even accuse the provider with dark patterns). Perhaps that’s why the focus is becoming enterprise customers.
And now that TTS is barely distinguishable from an organic person, increasingly more of the videos themselves are 'AI slop'.

So, soon it'll be bots arguing with bots about bot-written, bot-edited, and bot-narrated content.

Yay, slop all the way down!
That is extremely cool, very fine work thanks for sharing!

I agree some of the MNCA examples are very reminiscent of things that various RD's do, the one titled "A more complex MNCA example" has a similar oscillating-worms feel to something I found in a modified Gray Scott:

https://youtu.be/Naj_J8aznyk?si=lb0WrkrUaCDg-Rzl
given the 'mutual servers' feature of Discord one could argue that Discord encourages users to idle in many servers even more aggressively than IRC did given the social networking implications.

in reality on IRC almost every client connected with invisible mode on so aggregating big vinn diagrams of overlapping channels between users in every channel was a lot more laborious.
They sold the NUC business off to ASUS. But yeah, still lots of other stuff, like discrete graphics cards.
No real effort? >50% of Germany's power came from renewables in 2023. That sounds like a massive effort to me.
here is a bigger map: https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/
I guess someone's been re-reading The Diamond Age.
You'll have to define "abuse" more concretely for this to have any meaning.

Do most knowledge workers actually put in exactly 8 full hours a day on work tasks working from home? Probably not.

But as a professional software developer since the 1990s the same was true for myself and virtually everyone I know when I worked in an office.

The way I 'waste' time is different now, but arguably a lot better (eg. me taking a nap just before or just after lunch improves my productivity in the afternoon a lot more than me fucking off on slashdot for extended periods of time in the office did back in the day.)

(And whether or not this not-directly-related-to-work downtime is really a time waste is extremely debatable, as switching thorny problems into the subconscious realm often turns out to be one of the best ways to actually power through them in my experience).
I wish people would stop using “liberal” to describe the left nowadays. The progressive left today is so far away from “liberal” both in the historic understanding and the classical definition of the term that it’s arguably flipped its meaning.

It’s a shame but it’s basically now just a term used to categorize anyone who basically aligns with the US Democratic Party. Beliefs behind liberalism be damned, it’s just a political affiliation now.
How does lower case force you to do that? It seems to me that it's completely orthogonal to sentence length and paragraph splitting. (But then, I use uppercase, so maybe I don't understand the dynamic.)
You've got that backwards. The wind is stronger at night in most of North America.

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-69f8723dccb62f0572daf...
Dan Geer on prioritizing MTRR over MTBF (2022):

Metrics as Policy Driver: Do we steer by Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) or Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) in Cybersecurity?

Choosing Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) as the core driver of cybersecurity assumes that vulnerabilities are sparse, not dense. If they are sparse, then the treasure spent finding them is well-spent so long as we are not deploying new vulnerabilities faster than we are eliminating old ones. If they are dense, then any treasure spent finding them is more than wasted; it is disinformation.

Suppose we cannot answer whether vulnerabilities are sparse or dense. In that case, a Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) of zero (instant recovery) is more consistent with planning for maximal damage scenarios. The lesson under these circumstances is that the paramount security engineering design goal becomes no silent failure – not no failure but no silent failure – one cannot mitigate what one does not recognize is happening.
I mean, breathing does too so watch your workouts. Being more serious, I don't think micromanaging your own cloud storage would help that much. The cloud provider is going to have that storage deployed and available regardless.
There is never enough housing to meet demand. Once people have housing they breed, that drives up the population and housing prices once more: only now the world is more crowded and shittier. Without habitat control, it will always be this way.
The number I heard was 8x. Solar is about 50 cents / kW, a "24 hour" solar grid is about $4/kW. But that's still about half the price of a natural gas grid and 1/5th the cost of nuclear.
Hybrid is exclusively a stop gap to stop people for quitting, no company wants to pay for an office downtown used 2-3 out of 7 days a week, S.F. vacancy rates seem to be leveling off and not improving around 40% (officially)
Should the company not be expected to uphold their promise that they sold him and charged him for?
3. Legal incentives. When somebody dies or fails to receive critical care at a hospital because a Windows XP machined got owned, somebody should probably face something along the lines of criminal negligence.
>But I find it hard to believe that every company doing this would act against its own interests in terms of productivity

Ever worked in a company?
Innovis? That's new to me. How long till they spin up yet another credit check corporation that I have no choice but to involve in my life?

I was also informed you can freeze opening checking accounts here.

https://www.chexsystems.com/security-freeze/place-freeze
It really doesn’t work well. But it has the advantage in that, if some messages just don’t appear… well, you don’t really notice.
I went into this hoping for a solution to my “how do I store all of my random stuff from having lots of projects and interested”, and while I enjoyed the article, I am shocked to report that my question was not answered.

Strange to imagine that I don’t have the exact same needs as archivists.
Link to a working version of the project: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/

The submitted article is a bit random, it's from 2013 and primarily links to a version of the project that doesn't work anymore (as far as I can tell). The Google+ links also really make you feel the passage of time.
Building more housing is not going to do anything. It is at most a temporary salve. Once people have housing they reproduce, creating more demand for housing. Building more housing is like building more roads: not a solution to anything, in fact, only encouraging the problem to get worse.
I assume it’s mostly because it’s way easier to debug json over websockets and http with browser devtools instead of custom protocols.

Custom protocol would be binary.

They could make a custom extension but it wouldn’t be that easy.

I worked on browser devtools for IE and edge.

Even chrome/vscode use jsonrpc over websockets for ease of development.
> economic incentives

EU CRA incoming, https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-cyber-resilience-act-what-it-mea...

How will the US version differ?
WFH only is low quality experience for me. No close bonding. Just zoom calls. Hybrid/Flex is the way to go I think. No need to be in the office 100%, but show up if you can.
That statement from Waymo always struck me as deeply uninsightful because it was really just a more complicated way of saying “self driving systems need to be good enough to drive the car on their own” which isn’t just obvious, but tautological.
By that logic, the interesting question is who paid them? There's no shortage of money and headlines promoting working in the office. Who had the money to pay for the other side?
A previous head of cyber security was fired when he said something like that.
Default being remote or in person doesn't create company culture.

Businesses in person or remote both have to learn to do what it takes to build company culture.
Are you actually going to reply to the substance of my comment or just do a Reddit like sarcastic reply? Yes, I am middle age and have worked for multiple companies. I've seen co-workers, friends, and even family abuse the opportunity to work from home. Which as I said is unfortunate because it hurts everyone who uses it wisely.

Show me or gp that there is no evidence of abuse. Anecdotally, I've seen it.
Building more housing now may in fact cause people to reproduce more, which will create more demand for housing... in 20 or 30 years. Well, in 20 or 30 years, we can build some more housing.

And even if we don't... solving the problem for 20 or 30 years is not nothing. It's worth doing.
Win32 Native Port of BusyBox
Excellent article.

Star Trek proposed a magical technical Tricorder as an ultra compact futuristic little black bag. You could whip it out and aim it at someone and have scads of useful data instantly.

Reality delivered us new tech like MRIs that require their own room at a hospital. Instead of the doctor going to your home and seeing you in the context in which you live, thereby providing substantial information without having to ask, the patient now goes to the clinic.

The result: The patient has ceased to be a whole person and product of their environment in the eyes of the physician. They are merely a specimen in a petri dish.

At one time, most humans lived in small communities where everyone knew each other and the doctor was one of the smartest and most educated people there. He was in the wisdom business.

Now doctors are expected to still deliver the results of being in the wisdom business while largely being reduced to technicians who lack the wealth of contextual information that once informed their practice of medicine.

This is compounded by larger communities and mobile cultures where we no longer know everyone for years and years.

How we fix this, I don't know.

But I am reminded that House was tentatively called "Everyone Lies" in preproduction. Figuring out the lies being told in every episode was a critical part of solving the medical mystery featured.

Modern physicians no longer know x patient is an alcoholic and hiding it and y patient is a philanderer whose sickly wife stopped sleeping with him years ago and it's both rude and ineffectual to ask about such things. You will likely be lied to.

But details like that are critical to sorting out what's really wrong medically and thus how to treat it effectively. And such issues absolutely fall in the purview of medical humanities, an aspect of the profession that desperately needs rethinking to resolve what ails modern medicine and thus improve health for modern people everywhere.
Your work with MNCAs is amazing and an inspiration.
That web design is the truly elite thing.
Will Microsoft face liability if someone dies or fails to receive critical care because some infrastructure system auto-rebooted to apply an update and lost state/data relating to that patient's care?
Running the world's critical infrastructure on verified, small, readable codebases rather than a diaspora of unvetted closed-source programs sprinkled across Windows and Linux systems sounds like a good start.
We're all having fun texting each other and goading each other into applying in the nuclear engineering community.

Direct link to job opening: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2741394/principal-nuclear-en...
Doomretro – The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC
Define "abuse" first. Bonus if you add how its different from all the abuse you can do when working in an office.

(I'll define "abuse" in my post after you define yours, I asked you first.)
Good question! As explained in the linked article, our core technology, Data Substrate, is modular by design and requires a storage layer to handle the actual data (more precisely store the checkpoints). This storage layer can be any data store with a Key-Value interface: it doesn't need to meet the consistency and isolation requirements of a full database.

We chose RocksDB and Cassandra to showcase two different approaches. RocksDB offers efficient local storage, but if there's a disk hardware failure, the data can be lost. Cassandra, on the other hand, ensures high availability by replicating data, making it resilient to disk failures. We also support cloud storage options like DynamoDB and BigTable in our cloud offerings.
Anecdote for exactly the other side: most co-workers I know who went remote are 50% more productive as before. They don’t have to waste their preciously short lives in pointless office drama, pointless meetings that could have been emails, waste their lives in cars commuting to a soulless office complex because an incompetent manager thinks that butts-in-seat time makes for a productive workforce.

I would 100% lead a full remote team, and have done so, and will never go back.
So I'm aware she worked for the NSA but this is the first I'm hearing of her working for TAO.

I had thought she worked at the NSA's IAD (defensive side) pre-merge of the offensive and defensive sides.
Ah, it's Romanized Greek. Yes, I've forgotten most of the Classical Greek I took in college but I'm not as stupid as I sometimes feel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_longa,_vita_brevis
>But it would be absurd to think that if everyone was really more productive at-home, companies would still be forcing everyone back in the office.

To draw this conclusion one would have to assume that companies are measuring productivity correctly.

Or that the companies are acting rationally, and we know that's never always true.
Sshfs for Windows
It's funny this topic came up today because I have a group of students working on a ROS2 project and at our meeting this afternoon they had a laundry list of problems they've been having related to ROS2. I'm thinking our best option is to use ROS1...

You're right ROS2 isn't all round better than ROS so the transition will never happen fully.

FWIW I'm working on an actual replacement for ROS, I'll post it to ShowHN one day soonish :P
Everyone hates the fire inspector, but love the fireman.
yeah, as someone who identifies with Classical liberalism, me too. I tried to fight the tide but it seemed like an uphill battle that spoiled any conversation from the start. The words Liberal and Left both start with the letter L, so I guess they are the same thing now.
I grew up in a post 9-11 world. To me, flying has always been something involving security and federal oversight. I have no problems with the federal government knowing that I have taken flight A123 to Chicago, or something. If I wanted to travel incognito, I'd take a train, or perhaps a greyhound bus.
zen looks really nice! thanks for the pointer.
I hadn't thought of casualty count, though the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing (Beirut, Lebanon, not occupied Palestine) was > 3x as deadly:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings>

(As I've said: all sides here.)

NB: Skimming that article right now, the bombing seems to have pre-dated Hezbollah (generally given to have formed in 1985), though Iran's hand in affairs is fairly likely, and "Islamic Jihad" may have been a label adopted by Hezbollah or a nascent precursor group. The event is somewhat coupled to events in Palestine given the PLO's involvement in Beirut.
Don’t forget that first you need to remove the back glass, which requires:

Torque driver (blue, 0.65 kgf cm) (923-0448)

Torque driver (green, 0.45 kgf cm) (923-00105)

Security bit (923-0247)

Micro stix bit (923-01290)

Nylon probe (black stick) (922-5065)

ESD-safe tweezers

Adhesive removal tool (923-09176)

Adhesive cutter (923-01092)

Ethanol wipes or isopropyl alcohol (IPA) wipes

6.1-inch repair tray (923-10712)

Camera cap (923-10716)

Display press (661-08916)

Cut-resistant gloves. Gloves may vary by region.

Heat-resistant gloves. Gloves may vary by region.

Safety glasses with side shields

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120638
I can't imagine having to get close bonding from the office. One of the benefits of WFH is that you spend less time around people who happen to get paid at the same job as you, less time commuting, and more time with people you choose to be around.
> To draw this conclusion one would have to assume that companies are measuring productivity correctly.
Or that the companies are acting rationally, and we know that's never always true.

So is your argument that bad management is so endemic that every company is making a poor decision about its productivity when it orders workers back to the office? I think some companies want to do soft layoffs. And I think others actually see real benefits of working in-person.

We don't have to take such extreme positions. Doubtless some people are more productive at-home, some people are less productive at-home. And some companies are actually seeing productivity decreases when their teams are remote.
I've often thought it would be heaps of fun to try to build a playful dynamic UI (perhaps for use in a game or something) where all the elements are are made from 'living' components, say CA's like your MNCA or perhaps reaction-diffusion. I would love to collaborate on some experiments around that if you'd be interested?
Poorly documented is one possibility. Also if you find an issue with anything that's not "testing k8s" the devs will tell you you're not supposed to use it for that.
It wont matter unless the code is written specifically for the hardware and will only run on that hardware.
That's the only thing that'll Microsoft chill with the reboots
>The only bit I'll buy is that some are doing it as a form of soft layoffs. But I find it hard to believe that every company doing this would act against its own interests in terms of productivity.

WRT "in terms of productivity"?

Companies do this all the time, and especially when they lay people off. (soft or otherwise)

There's absolutely a loss of productivity as everyone has to sort out the logistical changes while doing the things they normally do.
Filtered for home robots, fast and slow
I think most people would see not interacting with coworkers in any sociable way aside from video conferences as a net negative. You can’t form relationships that way. I think this is a key difference between people in this conundrum: some WFH advocates just see no value in building relationships with workers past the screen. It just doesn’t matter to them at some core level, and they don’t understand why it does for others (who I think are the silent majority).

You have more time for relationships outside of work, but for myself I find it much easier to work with others if I have some meaningful concept of who they are, and they have some meaningful concept of who I am.
Article is surprisingly critical of Andy.
Most single professionals I’m guessing
Im not surprised. Like I said, it is likely workplace specific based on culture, management, and hiring. Some places you can coast for years working 10 hours a week.
I've seen many absurd things working for various companies. I've personally seen millions of dollars set on fire over pet projects and egos, or petty power struggles. A sufficient justification to force people back into the office is because it gratifies a powerful man's ego to see people working in front of him.
CuPy isn't semi-abandoned as well, obviously :)
It's infracting the law, and the law is immoral and wrong, therefore not worthy to be followed.

Also, to be clear, I don't "normally" Cannonball across the country, I only do it under special circumstances. But I understand that you make the choice to drive inattentively even though it's a moral wrong and endangers others.
Yes, and?

It still adds an enormous amount of cost. Despite that buildings (and even bridges) still collapse. What is often not asked is how many people lack housing because those building codes made it unaffordable for them.
Does it really even need to be a secret? I mean technically there is nothing to really cover up except encouraging or incentivizing manufacturing for "green tech". There's nothing even sinister about it.

It could be as simple as China just sort of stumbled into this situation and realized what's happening and now they just have to foster and grow their solar and wind industries.
I chalk this up to “no one except that ‘one’ guy is going to do it”. Literally you would need to be a classical guitarist with amazing finger dexterity, coordination, and accuracy to do this without screwing up your goal.
It apepars that the default application firewall blocking rules are overly restrictive.

There are two «firewalls» in OS X: the IP packet filter (controlled pfctl) and the application level one (controlled by /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw). The one that is causing a lot of grief for upgraded users is the latter one.

The workaround is to remove/disable the app level blocking rules manually:

1. Get a list of app level firewall rules:

/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --listapps

2. Locate the app(s) of interest.

3. Disable the app specific rules:

/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --unblockapp <path to the app from the list in step 1>

Alternatively, the app can be removed from the list of application firewall rules:

/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --remove <path to the app from the list in step 1>

That will fix the problem, e.g. with Firefox (tested) or WireGuard (reported by somebody else above, untested).

If a DoH DNS configuration is used, it also makes sense to explicitly whitelist the DoH provider in «pfctl» rules at IPv4/IPv6 and domain levels.
> You can’t form relationships that way

Plenty of millenials and Gen Z can

We've been building groups online ever since we were little
Absolutely. In the WFH vs Office debate people seem to forget that time-abusing employees always exsisted. I've had coworkers at past jobs who sat next to me and nobody on the team coukd come up with anything they did for a year besides browse the internet and plan vacations.
hey now, personal user data takes a while.
Perhaps in this case they are being “paid” by the desire to retain their home offices.
This doesn't seem consistent with the history of relational algebra. It was introduced at a time when there were numerous competing storage technologies from cartridges, strips, drums, as well as disk drives all of which had different physical characteristics.

In fact disk drives were the least common storage system, they were the fastest but most expensive and had the least storage.
> you're not a good person, you don't fool me. Fund open source, it would support young people who were just like you were

Or maybe he knows he's not a good person and has no intention of multiplying people who are just like he was, because he knows people as himself are bad and the world is better without them.
Journalists are lying scoundrels who knowingly deceive people.

Such a silly generalization, I didn't bother reading the rest of the comment.

This conversation is over.
Walking Faroe Islands (part one)
Let me share some recent experience.

After 4 years of working remote, I changed to a new company that’s doing hybrid. Didn’t need to move or anything like that.

The commute sucks just by virtue of existing. You can’t beat the ease of swapping laptops.

But I feel more onboarded into the company after a month of hybrid than I did after maybe 6 months at the old job. Kvetching over lunch is just nice. Getting to hear about the aches and pains of the codebase and various processes without having to schedule a bunch of 1on1s and polluting my calendar with meetings is fantastic. It’s my job to solve these things systemically and just being around to see the painpoints when people drop their guard and don’t feel like their words are recorded forever in a slack channel is freaking amazing. It makes my job so much easier and less forced.

The best part is that my day is no longer full of meetings because we can resolve a lot of things informally.

And yes I absolutely need the flexibility to work from home when it’s time for heads down focus mode.