skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who downvote me, let me add some context. I count 14 employees in the company picture [1]. They say "up to 20 employees". I assume not everyone is a software developer.

They have 1. Nitrokey 2. NitroPhone 3. NitroTablet 4. NitroPad 5. NitroPC 6. NextBox 7. NitroWall 8. NetHSM which look like very different products. On top of this, they have consulting services and NitroChat (not clear to me if it is just a branded Matrix instance) and "Android FIDO SDK" (which for some reason points to https://hwsecurity.dev/, which doesn't exactly seem to be a Nitrokey product). That seems like a lot for 14-20 employees.

But then my experience was with the Nitrokey 3 NFC. They advertised all the main features that Yubikey had and accepted pre-orders. They claimed that the software was ready, in Rust and open source (!), and that it would just take a few months for the hardware. It took 2 years, and when I finally received my Nitrokey, none of the software was ready (it had just one feature, maybe FIDO?).

Finally, it is great that it is open source, but the fact that it is flashable does not sound like a security feature to me: doesn't it mean that an attacker could flash a malicious firmware on it from a compromised computer?

[1]: https://www.nitrokey.com/about
>However, returning to a small federal government, no matter which side of the aisle you sit on,

On a per-capita basis the federal government is the smallest it has ever been since the number of federal employees started being counted.

In October 1954 (the good old days?) there were 2.283 million government employees and 163 million Americans.

In October 2024 (big government tyranny) there are 3.002 million government employees and 335 million Americans.

A major source of government dysfunction and public dissatisfaction is that there are the same number of workers behind the desks-- and double the number of customers.

Double the tax cheats, same number of investigators.

Double the polluters, same number of inspectors.

Double the guests at the national parks, same number of park rangers.

Double the people needing replacement social security card, same number of clerks.

This enables fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.

All Employees, Federal (CES9091000001)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001
These authors have big Google Docs of evidence, https://jonathanhaidt.com/reviews/. But if you read it, you will see the effect is (AFAICT) limited to certain populations. There is a significant fraction of students that do have trouble with executive function and staying on task and will fail to do their homework because of social media access. Then there are the other students that have no trouble staying off social media when they have to do homework.
If they're not using Locate X anymore it's because they've replaced it with something equal or better...

Or they're lying. Cops do that a lot too. But I personally think it's more likely that they have a replacement.
> To a certain extent, most people need to sacrifice some amount of health and performance to live the fullest life they can.

I agree 100%. I did not post to complain about her, but more to note about incompatibilities in things like sleep schedule. I do believe though she should drink a bit less, but as long as it makes her enjoy life, why not.
Not really because you're paying for the roll of the dice not to get the actual desired image. So it's more like the minimum it would cost is 6c with no celling.
I would evolve it into an SQL DB :-p
Maybe get yourself a couple kettlebells and do some kb swings at home? You can build a lot of baseline strength with a kb or two. Even just doing 100 single arm swings per day is enough at the beginning, and it takes no more than 15 minutes or so. Set yourself a goal of doing it consistently for a while and I'm sure you'll feel pretty confident walking into a gym again after 45 or 100 days.

Rogue is actually doing a 5-items ship for $5 promo for the month, kettlebells included.
"AI" is basically a vast, curated, compressed database with a powerful index. If the database reflects the current state of the art, it'll have better understanding than the majority of human practitioners.

You may say it will "simulate understanding" -- but in this case the simulation would be indistinguishable from the real thing, thus it would be the real thing. (Really "indiscernible" in the philosophical sense of the word.)

> Reasonable doesn't mean correct. Who is liable if it's the wrong answer?

I think that you can get better accuracy than with the average human doctor. Beyond that, my own opinion is that liability should be quisque pro se.
Unapologetic neutral is the way to go. Coloring is distortion.

Salvageable headphones include, but not limited to (I hope...) Sennheiser HD600 and Audio Technica ath-r70x.
I'm curious about this for DuckDB [1]. In the last couple months or so I've been using DuckDB as a one-step solution to all problems I solve. In fact my development environment rarely requires anything other than Python and DuckDB (and some Rust if native code is necessary). DuckDB is an insanely fast and featureful analytic db. It'd be nice to have a linter, formatter etc specifically for DuckDB.

There is sqlfluff etc but I'm curious what people use.

[1] DuckDB SQL dialect is very close to Postgres, it's compatible in many ways but has some extra QOL features related to analytics, and lacks a few features like `vacuum full`;
This, it has no idea that you processed the message. It assumes processing is successful by default which is cosmically stupid.
Unfortunately I don't have the budget to fund a large RCT. It is also worrying that the companies and health authorities with the budgets haven't done so either.

Unless there is some unknown, long term effect from COVID that is yet to manifest itself, it is self-evident that the comment that "It was also more dangerous to healthy young men than just getting COVID, due to myocarditis." is "Absolutely not true" is incorrect.
The Hostile Telepaths Problem
Note taking is not about the time spent with patients. It's about keeping a good record for next time and insurance and is a major reason for physician burnout. Some doctors will finish up charting when after hours.

Yes physicians could still see fewer patients but filling out their mandatory notes is annoying regardless of it's a manageable amount of patients or a work extra hours amount.
"Few know" yet they advertise it all over their trucks all over Pittsburgh?? lol blatant marketing BS
I used this. It worked fine. It's a shame it's necessary though... I wish there was some kind of vendor-neutral import/export format rather than requiring a third party to solve the whole matrix of integrations.
> After 3 years in the industry, I've yet to meet a single scientist, engineer, or organization who's truly interested or does active research in implementing Shor's algorithm.

This is because the current state of the art is still very far away from programmable quantum computers. There is lots of work ahead on improving the error rate of individual quantum logic gates, before we can even begin to dream about building computers from the gates.

There also seems to be a large gap between how little current or near-future quantum computers can do (= nothing useful), compared to what the general public thinks they will soon be able to do.
That link is, again, about the difference between offers to purchase and offers to settle debts.

Think logically about this. What do you think legal tender even means otherwise? Why would you need a special term to denote a form of payment that a creditor can accept if they want to? I could accept settlement in jelly beans if I wanted to. The entire point is that you must accept legal tender, that is what makes it different from everything else.
Can relate to the hair growth thing, I've started to enter my "balding" era and I've been having a nervous breakdown. I never really cared about my looks before but the balding thing is really getting to me. Finasteride makes me depressed and minoxidil is so annoying, makes me feel less alone when I read a comment like yours, ha.
i'd love to have a distraction-proof workstation that would force me into my IDE or whatever design doc i'm working on and block out everything else.

but it's not possible because the job requires all these gateway-drugs-to-distraction to be on the forefront of your workspace:
* keep slack open in case you're needed in that support thread
* keep a browser open so you can google the api docs for something (that's how i ended up here right now)
* keep spotify playing in the background so you can drown out the noise of the open office/work-from-home-noise
I had not considered using a VM instead of strace when a program can detect ptrace(2) being used - good idea.

> Normally when reverse engineering a program, it is common to use tracing programs like strace. These tracing programs are quite useful, but they suffer from a design flaw: they use ptrace(2) to accomplish the tracing, which can be detected by the program being traced.

One way to do this would be to call ptrace() from your program and check if it returns the error EPERM. From the man page:

EPERM The specified process cannot be traced. This could be because the tracer has insufficient privileges
(the required capability is CAP_SYS_PTRACE); unprivileged processes cannot trace processes that they
cannot send signals to or those running set-user-ID/set-group-ID programs, for obvious reasons. Alter‐
natively, the process may already be being traced, or (on kernels before 2.6.26) be init(1) (PID 1).

However, this is not the best solution, as if your system has a security policy already in place for ptrace() detection, your process might get detected and killed. Other methods from the calling process might involve timing mechanisms, breakpoint detection, or checking other factors in the process' environment. One problem with the workaround suggested in this post (running a process from qemu-user) is that if it is truly security hardened, it might rely on timing differences smaller than the speed of VM instruction execution.

As a user or sysadmin, one way to detect ptrace is to use Yama [1], a Linux kernel module that creates an entry in /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope to configure a user's desired level of ptrace protection, from 0 (normal - any process can call ptrace() on another process owned by the same user) to 3 (completely disabling ptrace).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/LSM/Yama....
There have been consistent reporting for two decades that screens are leading to measurable reductions in attention span. Three decades of reports linking the internet and digital culture with mental health issues. What evidence is missing?
Or just buy a router that has that. There are tons that do it. Even my shitty CenturyLink DSL router has it.
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If they do not track me, and offer iron-clad, actionable guarantees for violations, I might consider it.
That plane is significantly more valuable to the American people than his life is. That plane cost the entire federal tax bill of 1000 senior software engineers. If he's not willing to risk his life to keep it in the air, he shouldn't be flying it.
100% agree AI will ruin healthcare. I'm an IT director at a rural mental health clinic and I see the push for AI across my state and it's scary what they want. All i can do is push back. Healthcare is a case by case personal connection, something AI can't do. It only reduces humans down to numbers and operates on that. There is no difference between healthcare AI to a web scraper on webmd or mayo clinic.
Can we circle back on this in 6 months to validate our strategy with leadership?
This is so hard to vocalize, but yes, exactly. Prices aren’t coming down. That’s largely not something that happens. Instead, wages are supposed to increase in response.

You might see little blips around major recessions, but prices go up, driven by inflation.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

Fortunately the rate of change of CPI appears to have cooled off, but the best scenario is for it to track with the previous historical slope, which means prices are staying where they are and increasing at “comfortable” rates again.
Ditto on regretting not starting sooner.

I've done varying amount of exercise throughout life, but really dedicating myself to whole body weight-training/yoga/core-and-balance over a period of about a year has fundamentally changed my life in countless ways.

I wouldn't even say you understand it once you start. I think understanding requires going for a while without injury, passing your noob gains phase, hitting a plateau and seeing results again.

Especially for someone like me into "depth" in strategy games... you realize that the only limits are genetic & mental and the "skill curve" is infinite. Putting effort into training, eating or resting has largely supplanted my desire to play video games.

NB: I had previously done a Starting Strength program a decade ago with a not-so-great coach. Coach was a dickhead and didn't discourage me from some really bad training habits that led me to get injured. Injury led to depression, weight gain and not getting back to training for a decade. Maybe that's on me but it's a serious regret and the approach I took to training this time around made all of the difference.
It seems the real issue here is that school devices should be locked down better? It's honestly shocking they aren't already. Why on Earth would kids be allowed to access TikTok over their school network?

Mind-boggling, seriously.
If only that justice was applied in a way that was devoid of classism, racism and just plain not giving a f by other humans, this might be a valid take.

Mass incarceration creates better criminals. Please show your math on how the death penalty prevents murders.

Locking up people who are driven to acts doesn't solve the root problem. Even in programming/engineering, this is a shortsighted, and prone to failure direction.
My first question is "How is the business doing after 11 years and where is it headed in terms of current growth, customers, founder(s) vision etc". If the answer is negative, then the technical improvements won't matter much.

But let's say that the business itself is doing good and there truly is a need to improve the tech now to help do even better. In that case, DO NOT DO A FULL RE-WRITE. DO NOT. sorry for caps but it is important.

Like many others have already suggested, start with a smaller piece and improve it. May be create a separate API/service. Then measure the improvement in developer time and customer happiness linked to it. Build that slowly over time.

"I want to keep things simple, and avoid bringing in too many dependencies, so I am leaning towards a minimal set of Symfony components, rather than something like Laravel"

That is good thinking.

"One of the primary complaints we get is that our current system is too slow. In part, this is because most actions trigger a full page reload."

Instead of a full rewrite, focus on improving te performance here. Yes, a full rewrite sounds exciting but how will that impact the business ? Instead, what if you figured out a way to improve the current performance bottleneck first ?

Remember that customer don't care about tech. They care about a solution that solvs their problems fast, efficiently at a reasonable price.

I am also concerned about the fact that a junior dev is being asked to rewrite. I understand it is just 4 of you but depending on the number of customers you serve, do not take this lightly.

Source: I have built software and run my own SAAS. 20+ years of experience breaking shit in production.
Note this study provides no evidence in support of this statement; strength training caused motor neurons to grow -- the neurons between your spinal chord and the muscles -- not neurons in your brain. Your statement is likely true, but just not because of this study.
> remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient", and replace it with an AI that will mediate all human interactions

I imagine that call center operators are salivating at this prospect. They can have an AI customers can yell at and it will calmly and cheerfully tell them (in a more "human-esque" way) to try rebooting their modem again, or visit the website to view their bill.
In case people are wondering what the outcome/overview looks like:

https://www.google.com/search?q="pol.is"+graph&udm=2&uact=5&...
For me they are more a gray box. That is why publicity and propaganda work.
Add to that in some cases, you might get in more "trouble" for not engaging in corruption.
To use pier25's example again, someone who does't pay to skip the line might not get a turn if many others do and waste a bunch of time, have to come back the next day, potentially to the same effect. Or if you don't pay the expected bribe at a checkpoint, cops might find something wrong with your car lands you a more expensive fine (actual fine with paper trail + bribe instead of just bribe). You could argue that's extortion and not corruption but same principle to me.
During Covid lockdown, a friend needed to pay bribes to get a pass for their family to be able to do their shopping. It was supposed to be one pass per house in their area, but the owner of the neighborhood held them back and kept several for the own family, so no bribe, no trip to the store... Better to pay the bribe to the owner than risk it with the cops checking permits on the street.

This is just to say, taking part in corruption may not be optional where it is the norm, regardless of a person's education or morals.
> As a nurse, you end up relying on intuition a lot. It’s in the way a patient says something, or just a feeling you get from how they look

There is a longstanding tension between those who believe human intuition is trustworthy, and the “checklist manifesto” folks. Personally I want room for both, there are plenty of cases where for example the nurse/doctor’s intuition fails and they forget to ask about travel or outdoor activities and miss some obvious tropical disease, or something situational like Lyme’s.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in a hospital and the human touch is really invaluable. My hope is that AI can displace the busywork and leave nurses more time to do the actual care.

But a concrete example of the thing an AI will struggle with is looking at the overlapping pain med schedule, spotting that the patient has not been exhibiting or complaining of pain, and delaying one med a couple hours from the scheduled time to make the night schedule more pleasant for the patient. It’s hard to quantify the tradeoffs here! (Maybe you could argue the patient should be given a digital menu to request this kind of thing…)
Kuo: Apple to release its own smart home camera in 2026, with AI features
'miracle' weight-loss drugs will change the world
Make every mobile developer hate us
Yeah, but not on a single core.

In my desktop computer, I have Ryzen 7 8700G CPU, which has 8 Zen 4 cores, 4.2 GHz base frequency, 65W TDP. Theoretically, when doing FP32 FMA, each CPU core can do 32 FLOP/cycle. At the base frequency, this translates into 134 GFlops per core. You gonna need all 8 cores to achieve 1 theoretical TFlops.

BTW, integrated GPU inside the same 8700G processor can theoretically do 8.2 TFlops FP32.
There’s probably a group of poor bastards on call at 5am, poring over alerts, and logs in Datadog etc wondering WTF is wrong with their applications.

Give ‘em a shout out by saying “hi” in a request parameter or something while you’re reverse engineering.
That's a really good article, I hadn't seen those details before. Thank you!

Second part: https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/07/09/saipan-landing-ii/
I was doing this in 2007. Most of my time was spent trying to figure out how to automatically de-duplicate the tripe, and filter out the AP re-posted stuff.
It's true, but corporate policies and insurance are already like "slow AI"

They remove most of what's real in interactions

I remember going for a routine checkup at Kaiser, and the doctor was literally checking boxes on her computer terminal, rather than looking, talking, listening.

I dropped them after that -- it was pointless for me to go

It seems like there are tons of procedures that already have to be followed, with little agency for doctors

I've talked to doctors who say "well the insurance company say I should prescribe this before that, even if the other thing would be simpler". Even super highly paid doctors are sometimes just "following the rules"

And more importantly they do NOT always understand the reasons for the rules. They just have to follow them

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To the people wondering about the "AI alignment problem" -- we're probably not going to solve that, because we failed to solve the easier "corporate alignment problem"

It's a necessary prerequisite, but not sufficient, because AIs take corporate resources to create
Sure, but all software rots.
Just going to second this. Good code reviews (not just typo nitpicking) can be a great way to simplify down code, and spread knowledge horizontally across the org. Not to mention catching bugs.

Unit test aren't a substitute because unit tests check that the success paths are good. That's a good start, but it's not the same as verifying all the possible ways code could go wrong in a complex system, and one of the cheapest ways to spot those problems is with people familiar with complex system looking at new code.

Code review give you the double benefit of building more people who understand the whole system, and having the code looked at by people who understand the whole system.
Is it the whole point? My understanding is that this attack requires physical access to the key. Would a compromised computer be able to extract the key without physically having the key? My understanding is that it wouldn't.

So having my private key on the Yubikey plugged into my computer is still safer than having the private key directly on the computer, right?
We do know at what portion of the flight this happened. It's right there in the report. The airplane was in stable forward flight, not stalled. You did not make any valid points.
Living standards have improved, but at vast cost the environment, and we show no signs of addressing this.

The amount of energy we spend on irrelevant stuff like the stock market & AI should instead be directed toward dealing with climate change, and not turning our oceans into lifeless garbage dumps. But our economical model can only handle things that make more money for rich people, so we won't.
A little bit, we are. With some degree of confidence, given the incentives you can predict the output.
I don't think there are any smartphone bans for US states that have been in force for more than a school year, no?