skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short answer to your last two questions is that “before first unlock” is a different state from requiring the PIN/passcode. On boot, the decryption keys for user profile data are not in memory, and aren’t available until they’re accessed from the security coprocessor via user input. The specifics depend on the device, but for Pixel devices running GrapheneOS you can get the gist of it here: https://grapheneos.org/faq#encryption

The important distinction is that, before you unlock your phone for the first time, there are no processes with access to your data. Afterwards, there are, even if you’re prompted for the full credentials to unlock, so an exploit could still shell the OS and, with privilege escalation, access your data.

Before first unlock, even a full device compromise does nothing, since all the keys are on the <flavor of security chip> and inaccessible without the PIN.
And yet choosing to weaponize that against innocent people is as bad as those other illogical things.

Yes, the police response in this country is often absurd. Using that to harass and harm people is equally awful.
Pensieve: Open-source, self-hosted alternative of Rewind
Withholding a letter of recommendation maybe? If the culture truly is such that you get a job in your early 20s and stay there until you retire or die, then presumably a job seeker in their 30s would be virtually unhireable without a good explanation.
That song was released in 1988 by NWA, a hip hop group from Compton, California.

I don’t think it’s too far fetched to think that song was colored by their experiences with the notoriously corrupt LAPD of the 1980s.
It's probably 101 stuff, but I just set up the appropriate records to authenticate the domain and didn't think about it again. It's not a big part of my responsibilities.

So the word deliverability includes making it past spam filters?
If someone writes a strategy pattern to fix duplication, all power to them, it's a well understood, easy to use pattern that fixes several problems.

> adding three classes and a interface to implement a strategy pattern

Sounds like the language used is the problem here, not the intent. Hasn't Java (et al) made this easier yet?
It looks like the 20 years is a theoretical maximum. Isn't it pretty rare for anyone to ever get the maximum sentence?
I didn't know they do anything comparable to actively obstructing social discourse, and still be credited to be a vital part of the democracy
One factor: 38% of population in NYC had air conditioning in 1970, 90% do now.

The OP mentioned this as a symptom - "20 years ago I rarely used AC in the summer, now its on nearly every day from May to September." Increased AC use and the associated waste heat is a significant contributor to the urban heat island effect. https://news.asu.edu/content/excess-heat-air-conditioners-ca....
I miss donut. Is it still around?

Feeks like a relic of the early pandemic times (although there are countless other tools like it now).
> We've launched twins before. The two Voyagers, for example. Two Vikings, for another.

Good point. Do we know the marginal cost of the second one? Why don't we send twins now?

> When we build different airplane models, quite a bit comes from other airplanes.

I expect we're already doing that with space probes, to the degree it's possible. I feel like some of your argument is the old 'these people are idiots and I know obvious ways to do it better'.

A good question is, why doesn't NASA do it that way? It would be interesting to hear the response of someone there.

I can think of reasons it might not be effective - e.g., the probe for a few months of Europa terrain observation might be very different than the 10-year solar radiation observer, which might be much different than the Mars whatever, etc.

> I debated those experts here, and a lot of their arguments didn't hold up. For example: / 1. only need to [____] once

Those are the benefits of standardization and mass production and can be quite valuable, but not everything can be done that way. That's why we have different planes, cars, etc. I might want everyone in our company to use the same laptop, but different people have different needs.

I can come up with other possible issues, but I have no idea without someone with actual experience:

There can be a significant cost to engineering for standardization. Parts, assembly, a supply chain, a production line - maybe not worth the cost at the quantities needed. And there are things like the F-35, intended to save money by meeting the mission requirements of militaries in a ~dozen countries and services, including all of the US Air Force, Navy, and Marines - all simultaneously! Anyone who has designed even small systems would, I think, feel alarm at reading that. It took a little time and money to find a way to do all that effectively, please all those bosses, with an all-in-one tool. (Off the top of my head, just think of power supplies that can suit every possible demand on space probes!)

Weight and size are especially an issue for space probes, which would seem to make an all-in-one tool more challenging. The proposed solution often is modularization - a standard framework with interchangeable mission modules. In my limited experience trying it, it's a mess: when things break or need lots of extra attention, IME as a general rule it's most often at the interfaces between systems and between subsytems; the interchangeable module approach is asking for trouble. I know the US Navy tried that with littoral combat ships, and it failed. (Which doesn't mean it never succeeds.)

> What's more important? Solar system exploration or half-brain cats?

You really set yourself up ...
Just to (mostly) preempt this because the exact same discussion is had every time this sentiment comes up: Isn't safari the new IE?

Answer: They both are like IE, for different reasons:

Chrome: Pushes proprietary extensions onto the web, which due to their absolute dominance others are somewhat forced to adopt, people develop for it and don't test in any other browser, just like IE

Safari: is coupled to operating system version, lags behind on implementing new features, thus single handedly slowing down when everyone can use new features. Has weird quirks that other browsers don't, just like IE (though not nearly as bad as IE)

So which is like IE? It just depends on what you mean when you say "like IE", the label applies to both because IE was bad for more than one reason
Not to mention the opportunity cost: victims of real violent/urgent situations who couldn't access timely protection, as well as the cost to society of perpetrators who marginally escaped while law enforcement were occupied tending to fake call outs.
Safari. I assumed this was overblown until I had the rich experience of developing a Flutter app that needed to work on every platform. Somehow, even Androids chaos is notably better to work with.
Container makes it easy to update. I don't need to go read the instructions about which files I need to replace or what to do about modified files. If it's built properly to run from a container and uses sane version numbering, all I need to do is pull the new image and restart the container.

There are still plenty of not sane container builds that don't make it easy. If I need to checkout a git repo and mount a path into the container it's not sane. Pulling an image and starting a docker-compose should be all that's needed.
> It wouldn't be a problem, if the "heavily armed response team" was properly held to account when they killed innocent people.

You’re right, but it is a problem and people who choose to abuse that fact deserve to have the book thrown at them.
I always become lucid when I'm experiencing a nightmare. And then I fight the nightmare, and it's all good again.
That doesn’t account for folks who fail to make eye contact (of which there are many in tech)
> By that token, every logo in existence could be a white square with black text on it.

As I think you already know, the designer obviously wasn't suggesting that. He was saying that clarity matters, not that only clarity matters.
> It doesn’t work for people farming corn/rice etc

Well duh, that's an edge case. Obviously I don't expect literally every single person to give up driving, but most people who use this website are white collar workers, or at least people who don't need to haul things on a regular basis.
Then it would be quite different from IE. Microsoft was so averse to breaking backwards compatibility, that IE stopped innovating and stagnated.
New features to ensure ads are pervasive and can’t be blocked? How empowering! Advertisers say thanks. Wait, Google is the biggest. How self-serving.
Yes.

If it works on Chrome, no one cares or even tests for other things.

If there is a JS feature in Chrome they want to use, so it’s impossible to use other browsers (instead of looking wrong) people do it.

Performs fine in Chrome? Ship it.

Yes, Chrome is the new IE in that it’s the only browsers companies care about, just like IE was for a very long time.

Everything has to be Chrome compatible to succeed. That’s the benchmark, not what the spec says.
In iOS 18 at least, you can long press on an app icon and choose “Require Face ID”. No need to use shortcuts!
Yes. He's being sentenced as a juvenile, which will further complicate (and likely mitigate) his sentence.

If I had to guess, he'll do a couple years.
> if you can start getting people feeling connected and collaborative, you'll find that they'll naturally keep that up and build on it.

A great insight
"The small Internet can be distinguished from the corporate Internet in a number of ways. It is not designed to make money, but when necessary, its site owners may ask for help in the form of small donations to help pay for hosting costs. It does not contain pop-up advertisements or intentionally gather visitors' data for [commercial purposes]."
I had 2.5mg of thc every day for ~7 years. I couldn't remember the last dream I had when I quit thc in August. After not sleeping for 2-3 weeks I started having vivid nightmares every night for about a week. I'm still having extremely vivid dreams since, but they're no longer all terrifying. Sleeping better than ever and my anxiety is also better than ever.
Some good points, thanks for the insight :)

Yeah, when I multithread something I pretty much assume that I can hog the whole machine for the time slice the job is going to be running. Said another way, I assume there will be a small number of large jobs running on the machine at any given time, which attempt to saturate the machine. Typically dispatched to a core-locked threadpool of some sort.

Definitely agree with the sentiment that multithreading is hard. Especially when trying to get every last drop..
That sounds about right. My dad had commands written on sticky notes on the monitor for me.

As a recall I had to in order to play Commander Keen.
Just a thought experiment, what would be the equivalent for men in terms of scope and impact on humankind?
What do you use then to make these decisions? If you use your eyes, app, nutrition label or Chatgpt, you would still have the same variables. You're still making the decision based on averages, and best guesses.
It sounds like a very interesting book that I hadn't heard of before. I am struck though that it only had 29k sales in the whole UK, I know fiction sales are fairly low these days but hopefully this gets it to more eyes.
Not for a reasonable price, anyway. There are some homes that have added basements to get the space, but now we're talking something like $6 million, if not more.
> Why can't it just go into this state without rebooting?

Because the state of the phone isn't clean - there is information in RAM, including executing programs that will be sad if the disk volume their open files are stored on goes away.

If your goal is to get to the same secure state the phone is in when it first starts, why not just soft reboot?
Japanese companies have some culture of bullying and harassment. The laws against it are limited and enforcement is toothless. But yeah, it's mostly ultimately a lack of courage from the employees in question.
Here's a recent article by Josh W Comeau that explains how this keyword is instrumental to using container queries: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/container-queries-introducti...
so is their USB-C to headphone jack adapter, the US versions anyway https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...
Mastering RBAC: A Comprehensive Real-World Example
Depreciating old "features" like supporting legacy OS versions which is infuriating. Firefox is an inadequate substitute because too many sites only work in Chrome.

I blame lazy developers for this mess all around, which had caused a perfect storm of shit on the nouveau web.
Preload link tags work great and have been supported for over a decade.
It’s not explained so I have no idea where AI is involved, which makes this all the more alarming. I would seriously ask anyone considering the use of computer generated information in healthcare to do some soul searching and ask themselves if literally people’s lives are worth prolonging this bubble.
This is a mischaracterization of what actually happens in the us. Using sensationalism doesn't help, instead let's focus on the actual numbers and be constructive on how to decrease them.

In 2023 it's estimated police killed around 1,248 people. Notice I said killed vs Murdered as words matter. Out of that only 104 were unarmed. Now without looking at each case or example here, you can still account for the mass majority of police interactions ending in a death, the civilian was armed at a minimum.

Using the data provided we could say easily that 1,248 people is way too many. Hell, 1 is too many. That doesn't change reality though, if 1,248 deaths were related to individuals engaging in crime, this is a causality that you can lay solely on the civilian victim, as they chose to engage in this action.

We can argue how many were crimes, that's fair and i'm happy to throw out and say let's assume 25% were not crimes and really were just an escalated interaction. The bureau of justice statistics gave numbers for 2022 that estimated that 49.2 million people or 19% of the US had an interaction with the police. If that's true, napkin math would put the police murders at .0025% of the interactions, and assuming 333,287,557 million people in 2022 (census bureau) places it at .00037% of the population died by the hands of police.

Some related statistic. Roughly 500 people die from falling out of bed or off furniture, 300-400 die from drowning in a bath tub, 4,000 die from choking on food, 150 die from coconuts falling on their head, 500-600 die from falling from a ladder.

Looking at the numbers, it's very hard to say that police "Regularly murder people".

As for the "Everyone having guns" that's a separate debate, but I would posit you're correct with regard to criminals performing criminal acts, that are armed, increase the likelihood of a negative out come. Federal arrests for weapons offenses were around 8,000 with states being at close to 12,000. Putting that at 20,000 or so arrests per year. Even with those numbers if you're arrested with a firearm, you're still at around 6% chance of death. Again given the circumstances and propensity for needless escalation, these numbers while bad aren't crazy.

There are multiple problems in the US. We need better training and funding for police departments, we do need to weed out the bad cops (as with any field), but with all that the most common denominator is criminal behavior.

All of that said, If you've got data points or information that may be counter to the above, i'd be very curious to see it. I'm very much open to having my mind changed on the topic and encourage you to post it up for all of us here.
Huh thanks, learned something new today.
Hey! Whether your son takes over or not, the larger point I was trying to make is that worst case I can vendor htmx.js with my app and keep it going for a long, long time.

Same can’t be said for the vue app and its 1500 dependencies + web pack build chain. At least not as easily.
If I understand - Chrome is like IE for pushing proprietary extensions, and Safari is like IE for not implementing those proprietary extensions?
In my 20s I had a boss who said he wouldn't accept my resignation, so I stopped showing up. Works every time.
Interesting use by Google of everyone's android phone data to compute space weather info.

Do users who unknowingly contributed sensor data get a sticker or badge or anything? Reminds me of seti@home.

What else could you do with full control of a global botnet of high powered sensor packs like android phones?
Is Claude 'better' than o1-preview? I've had phenomenal results with o1-preview (switching to o1-mini for simpler asks to avoid running out of queries), and tried Claude once and wasn't super impressed. Wondering if I should give it another shot.
As a person on a front-end development team that has a “Chrome = success” mandate, it’s not always our decision as to when something ships or for which platforms we are to target. We work on Chrome first and then hope for the time to get things to work elsewhere.
> I have to assume there's industry wide misunderstanding on this term?

The "misunderstanding" is at least as prevalent as the original, yes. I wasn't trying to say the original is "correct" - language is determined by usage - just wondering which you were discussing.

> To avoid the confusion, it seems like DRY would be better named something like "Single source of truth".

It could probably do with a better name, but "single source of truth" is usually about the information operated on by the program, rather than information embodied in the program.
Paul Graham on Startups, Innovation, and Creativity (2009) [video]
> If it works on Chrome, no one cares or even tests for other things.

We've been through an extensive standardization pass for this to not happen. Anything not matching the specification whether in Chrome or any other browser should be considered a bug.

This is not at all the same as IE, where it just went its own way.
> Perhaps in that respect, financial firms are more meritocratic than tech companies. And also with jobs largely immune to AI, because nobody's stupid enough to send their code to OpenAI or GitHub.

Your quant fund may have an AI policy, but I guarantee you someone is leaking internal libraries to closed source foundation models.
He's probably not facing anything resembling 20 years. Charged as an adult under the fact patterns we know about, I get something like 15 years. But he's being charged as a juvenile.
Even taking this as completely true, what does it mean for the field?

How can one become a professional, experienced engineer if one has not put in multiple years being a productive junior engineer?

And what happens if those jobs are no longer available?
Safari is like IE for not implementing standards everyone else has agreed on and implemented.
Reading this, I was assuming that this behavior was enforced by reference checks for new hires being commonplace. However, the few sources I found in a quick search make it seem like asking/requiring references is a more recent practice due to western influence.

I'd guess it's just guilt and shame?
The line of logic is that people attempt to push propaganda against the narrative to completely discredit it. Oil industry has been doing it from the sixties. They'll find any small mistake in the science, and say "see? They're wrong! Nothing bad will happen..."

Sure, the models might be a little too doomer. That doesn't actually change anything, and for the past ~70 years the only type this type of stuff was brought up was to deny climate change.
It's insane how successful Japan is in spite of their corporate inefficiencies.
I use nutrition labels. I have absolutely no idea whatsoever why anyone would lump nutrition labels in with your eyes or chatgpt.

The people that make the label make the food. They know what they put in it. Because they made it. They wrote down what they put in it for you to read and make decisions off of. The difference is categorical.
That’s more than two people per day. But sure, let’s nitpick the definition of “regular” because that’s absolutely the important issue, here.
World wars wiped young males effectively. Or less morbid, hikikomori in Japan and Korea.
"Technical debt can be classified into three main types" ....

No. You haven't seen real tech debt until you've stared into the abyss and the abyss has stared back.
From the Information he pled to:

ALAN W. FILION,
a/k/a "Nazgul Swattings,"
a/k/a "Torswats V3,"
a/k/a "Third Reich of Kiwiswats,"
a/k/a "The Table Swats,"
a/k/a "Angmar," and
a/k/a "Torswats"

Seems like a fun guy. It looks like most of this story was covered a year ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/alan-filion-torswats-swatting-ar...
Therac-25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
> Some companies are notorious for resignation difficulties, excessive overtime and intense work pressure. So much so that they are labeled as “black companies.” The problem has become so severe that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Labor Standards Bureau has published a list of these companies to warn potential job seekers.

If only they were in a position to do something about it.
Did “everyone” agree on and implement them, or did Google implement them and force everyone else in the WHATWG to play catch-up since they’re dominant?
Learning from Cyberattacks
I think SICP is wonderful.

As I've learned more and studied more math though, I've come to the conclusion that the relation really is the more fundamental primitive. Every function can be represented as a kind of restricted relation, but the converse is not true, at least not without adding considerable extra gadgetry.

While of course relational databases and SQL are the best known examples of relational programming, and are highly successful, I still believe it's a largely untapped space.

However, my interest currently is less in the space of programming language design and more in teaching very young children the basics of math. And for whatever reason it's considerably easier to teach a predicate like "is big" as a 1-ary relation and "is bigger than" as a 2-ary relation than trying to capture the same concepts as functions.
GDP is a number without lot of meaning. Better thing to compare is the percentage of tax revenue. Total tax revenue of the world is $14.8T. So you need more than 30% relative increase in taxation.
mgtow maybe?
Safari is great and very performant. Not every rushed “standard” Google forces everyone to catch up to is a good thing.
Maybe someone could answer this for me: it seems like encoding the positional embeddings as augmentations to the "natural" activations instead of as their own inputs (concatenated onto the activations) make things like sliding a window much harder... I guess obviously the drawback is you have a somewhat less textually derived information.

I recall a early transformers video where they tried both and it turned out that adding the position onto the existing vectors was no worse so they went with it... No further discussion about motivations happened in that video.

Is it worth revisiting that maybe now that activations have a gobsmackingly large dimension?
Combining VR and non-invasive stimulation to boost spatial memory with o surgery
Why does Netflix seem to struggle with so many of its live events?

It’s not like there aren’t other players in the industry who do this well. If it’s a area you want to expand into, acquire one of them, change their branding and lightly integrate them into your regular product
> We have finite resources, if the effort to correct is minimal what's the harm?

That mentality at Boeing as, literally, costed many lives.

The harm is that nobody knows why there's a memory leak requiring a reboot (or if it's even a memory leak). What happens when that very same issue is combined with a rare case and causes the death of hundreds of people?

"Have you tried to turn it off and on again" may be fine for a $20 Internet-of-insecure-and-shitty-Thing bought on alibaba. Not so much when lives are at play.