skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From personal experience with police investigations... they aren't really all that inconspicuous when they come aspying. The van with tints several shades darker than the legal limit that sits outside and the trucks with dash-mount computers and racks of equipment visible through the windshield shadowing your every move aren't exactly hard to see if you're paying attention. When they've got telescopic lenses watching from an adjacent building, you can also see those with the naked eye if you look closely. Hopefully national spy agencies are better at it than small town drug task forces, but...
I had something Very similar when I used i3.

I had some hacked together python that allowed me to yank a window in and out of the stack by name and stashed a window that was the oldest in the stack (basically an LRU cache for windows)

It "worked" but I would really have enjoyed paperwm when I was in college.

There are some things that only floating WMs do right. I have a bad habit of enjoying having a few floating (pinned) copies of a document on my screen at a time in different places to cross-reference without having to move around much.
> Some argue that it's good to have an independent rendering engine. Here too Firefox plays no role at all. The only counter force to Google's web feature roadmap is Apple/Webkit, not Mozilla.

I'd like to understand this point better. Does Firefox use the Chromium engine under the hood?
Pleasantly surprised that the first one with Christian symbols in Africa was something I happen to know exactly
Besides making no sense (modern networks are already largely VoIP based, so what’s the difference from a capacity point of view): What does that have to do with anything discussed in this thread, i.e. the feasibility of encrypting VoIP calls?

I'm really starting to wonder: Did I unintentionally send some kind of bat signal through time, channeling Bellhead objections to the feasibility of VoIP that have been thoroughly and empirically disproven years ago when the POTS largely switched to NGN and IETF standards, and people around the world have moved on entirely to Internet-based OTT VoIP services?
I don't think that's true. They've co-evolved, but C simply does less.

I've never seen a good way to make a CPU that's good for "not C" languages. Those are usually by people who are aggressively uninterested in being fast and so insist on semantics that simply wouldn't get faster if done in hardware. Like the way most Haskell programs execute is just bad and based on bad ideas.

But in both cases, modern CPUs are mostly network- then I/O- then memory-bound. Most C programs aren't written to respect that very well.
> [...] especially if they have phone wait times that exceed 30min.

Sorry, what does that mean? What are phone wait times, and what do they have to do with time zones?
The most obvious change that happens after hiring a graphic designer is that the app/website stops looking like shit, and adopts a pleasing color palette and set of fonts. There is real value in this, and the median graphic designer definitely chooses these better than the median engineer.

But UX is a broader umbrella which encompasses interaction flows at the large end, and single function widgets at the small end. For whatever reason, the median human is very bad at predicting the overall UX of a system. It's rare that you have someone who can look at a spec for a system they've never seen before and accurately predict what will be easy to use vs. hard to use. Graphic designers are not meaningfully better at this vs. engineers either, it's just uncommon.

For that reason, UX is usually developed by copying existing solutions, or using the guess and check method to try out novel things. It's very difficult to create good UX by design because evaluating the system by imagination is much harder than with an implementation. Contrast this to backend system design where entire categories of error can be predicted and avoided through basic principles and reasoning.

Where this can go wrong is when you think that you can hire for something which is actually rare in the talent pool. If you have a graphic designer or engineer who has demonstrated an excellent gut feel for UX, then that's incredibly valuable. But you can't wait around to find such a person, or pretend that you will be able to hire someone like that.
> Those perspectives both can't be correct!

Uh, sure they can: he saw an opportunity where he could make a difference and bring a program to light where the NSA was otherwise blatantly lying to Congress and the American people, and he took it.

There is nothing he can or could do to stop the invasion of Ukraine.

Which is to say, he didn't merely oppose US crimes. He brought them to light. Everyone already knows about Ukraine.
We are not even talking Amazon levels of inventory. A store has what, 10k, 20k items for sale? The entire store inventory prices could fit into <1MB of memory (without pictures).
...oh an he's an immigrant, illegal.
This looks like those youtube shorts I've been seeing. Did you guys create those?
monochrome displays were common in low end laptops, but they were so expensive there weren't many around.
Already, it's difficult (not yet impossible) to install software outside the confines of Apple's app store.

My installation of arbitrary software onto my MacBook via Homebrew, Nix, mise, downloading a DMG or .pkg via browser, or even the dreaded curlbash feel just as uninhibited by MacOS as they felt to me in 2015.

At most I have the one-time check-a-box about unsigned software to contend with, or a per-install approval step if I used more security-conservative settings.

None of this was either difficult or forbidden to me.
> C takes me more time to feel productive. I have to write code, then unit test, then property tests, then run valgrind, check ubsan is on. Make more tests. Do property testing, then fuzz testing.

Have you tried looking around and noticing nobody else does that and it's, like, fine?
It's a good article, but let's not pretend it's about protecting meme privacy.
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Have you tried the conversational mode in google translate? It allows two people to take turns speaking to it each in a different language.
It's on the right track, but lacks precision.

https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...

Previous try with some interesting introspection:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SCBbpDo1dAJBAz7bFABk4yBZBuz..., https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
This is at best a strawman, and at worst blatant astroturfing. The benefit of the doubt is given to these organizations a priori. The idea that the average person should not be able to know about government intelligence programs is common sense - if the average person knows, so do our adversaries, defeating the purpose of the program.

But there have to be limits on this power, or you enable, and even empower, an Orwellian regime.

NSA has been caught, multiple times, flagrantly disregarding the law, violating privacy rights afforded to every citizen by the Constitution, and gathering an amount of data that could easily enable a hostile regime to enact vengeance on dissenters.

So imagine this hostile regime comes to power. Now everyone is forced to either support the regime, or face harsh consequences without recourse. Any plan you construct, or group of supporters you amass, will inevitably be compromised by this machine and eradicated, one way or another.

You have totalitarianism, and no means to resist it. ou've given up your immune system. You no longer have a democracy, even if you do on paper. And before you make the argument that "the ends justify the means" consider that this hostile regime might not share your ends. You may get wrapped up in "the means".

Is that a desirable outcome for you? If not, you should rethink your position. If that outcome seems desirable to you, there are a very limited number of reasons why that could be the case, and none of them are charitable.
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Sadly, the "companies only exist to..." version of capitalism is about as accurate as the "Santa only brings presents to Nice little ..." version of Christmas.

Substantial Organizations - whether capitalist, non-profit, or other - give a great deal of power to their leaders, and jobs to their workers. Those folks - most especially the former - may give lip service to the org's supposed mission...but their for-sure #1 priority is looking out for their own interests.
I doubt very much that Trump has read a book in the last half-century, let alone written one.
Still more accurate most of the time than a lot of historical video games at least.

I got a trippy one that was supposed to be about Da Vinci painting the Last Supper, but the people were moving, so I thought it was supposed to be the actual supper: https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/56571c14-8f13-48ba-b60f-d82...
I'd accuse windows of knowingly setting expectations by choosing a blue screen as the default, but they were using it before the BSOD was even a thing
> Touch Bar

… shivers
My top post ever on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6dwg/wired_unve...
Agreed. Mozilla has problems, but bleeding funds from Google to fund their competition has a satisfaction factor. I'd rather sign a petition to keep the Google daddy fund going until the very end.
> grave atrocities

Tapping phones is immoral and unethical, IMO.

But a long was from the "grave atrocities" that were uncovered at the end of WWII
I found a video with an identical National Plant Services sewer inspection van, inspecting a large-diameter sewer line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXceJ3Yxnw
(The photo shows van TV-230 while the video shows van TV-217, so they are different instances of the van.)
'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket
I tried it and I'm completely sold!
I'm 10 years in now in not running either Windows or Mac and reading these articles is so uncanny.
Similarly, I went from writing a lot of C to Python, and I appreciate both of them for almost opposite reasons. I ended up finding I like Cython quite a bit, even though the syntax leaves much to be desired. The power, performance, and flexibility of C combined with the batteries included nature of Python is a match made in heaven.

You're also still very much free to write either language purely, and "glue" them together easily using Cython.
Yeah, I thought the article would be about the touchbar macs. Although if most people hate it, it's not controversial right?
It just tells me 'content not permitted'.

For context, I was attempting to put a cup of hot chocolate into the hands of an anime character.
I also bring a (Linux running x86) tablet with me everywhere. Its fantastically light and I can plug it in to two displays.

It has a very lightweight keyboard folio. More typically, i leave that at home & bring a small light clamp-mount arm that lets me easily mount it to whatever is nearby, tables or desks chairs or whatever. And use the very nice ThinkPad TrackPoint Bluetooth keyboard.

I have strictly more flexibility. And given that Mac has the same chips in both iPad and MacBook Air and Pro, it feels again like the distinction here is mostly arbitrary segmentation, not real. With ultra high end Asus Flow Z13 tablets rocking Strix Halo APUs, there's also proof that tablets can be incredibly power dense, if they want to be.

The laptop is a constrained design. That constraint is not a feature. You can do the same thing without that constraint. Just not on Apple.
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> where your target is MORE sophisticated than your own lang.

I.. hadn't thought of this. I mean I wouldn't transpile to a slow lang like python but choosing Zig or C++ is tempting. Zig maybe not as it's unfinished. But C++ instead of C would make my life easier (for ex. implementing classes).

> prelude with some hand-crafted functions that do the lifting. With this I mean things like `fn int(I:Int):Int'` so your code output is like `plus(int(1), int(2))`

Curious what you mean here. Is it `1+2` -> ast Binop{'+', left, right} -> gen `plus(1,2)` ?? Sorry it's late here and I should sleep..
and only 1 link still works. 19 years is a long time to the internet.
The infuriating thing is that a huge number of those limitations exist as a few bytes that Apple does not let you flip, somewhere in the OS's code or configuration.

It would be unreasonable to buy, say, a flip phone in 2007 and complain that it can't replace a graphics workstation. It didn't have the hardware for that workload. Today, it's the artificial nature of the limitations that make the device akin to a cage.
One does not need an expert to predict a terrible failure of Bitcoin as a legal tender and for $30-worth of free BTC wallet.

But as a minority of reserve asset, Bitcoin might be a good idea, nobody bought bitcoin at any price whatsover and wasn't able to make a profit that beats US T-bonds for 4 consecutive years (please double check on this, it's not a financial advice), let only if they DCA their portfolio.

Of course such national reserve cannot make a large % of the total reserve as the risk is also high and wealth of the nation is not meant to be used in risky bets. 4 years is also not a very meaningful window for a 16 years old market.
that's great!
Title: Thousands of Records, Including PII, Exposed Online in Healthcare Marketplace Connecting Facilities and Nurses Data Leak

(vs current: "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket")
Don't think so, which shorts are you talking about?
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Was it controversial? It just seemed like a bad product.
What do you mean by "MCP" ?

If you mean Model Context Protocol, then the relevant GitHub repository certainly suggests that any Linux environment would be suitable for development.

In my experience both Windows and MacOS have constraints which require additional effort to work around. I'm lazy and choose the easiest path: Debian on desktop system.
I think we’re agreeing; I said I loved my M1 Air even more than my 2013 Intel Air. The M1 still had the wedge, they lost it with the M2.
My favorite cargo cult thing today is that when you’re logged out you can’t find the login link anymore, just “Sign up”.
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The land area of an all-in-one plant is maybe the biggest unknown for me with respect to just getting ownership and permits and such. But it's fun to imagine just picking a giant plot somewhere in the desert and plopping down 20 GW of solar panels, enough hydrogen storage to keep the less energy intensive steps operating throughout the night, and presumably batteries for whatever still requires electric power while panels are offline. Water and air in, sweet sweet ammonia out. :-)

Cloudy weather would be an interesting problem I guess.
Happy to give it a try but I have 10 years using tiling wms exclusively for research and work and I never wanted to have more than 5 workspaces. I think the nice thing about wms is that mental model to keep things lean and simple, similar to how I also don't have a thousand tabs open and in fact I try to close all of the by the end of every day. I also fail to see the benefit of that many workspaces given you have other tools such as tmux etc.
Judging by this and your other comment, you seem to have made up your mind that the powers that be are not interested in end to end security. You seem to be ignoring (or disregarding without explanation) similar engineering feedback independently provided to you by different people. Good luck to you, sir!
How much of this is real? How much staged, carefully edited?

I expect they are more honest than the Telsa men in suits debacle, but my trust is low.

What do we know to be the facts?
> All of this presupposes that whatever you implement yourself will be more secure

No, this thread is about Azure in particular having a bad security posture, not the cloud in general.
I think it's definition on what's a "person" is way too broad. I've had similar problems, it's pretty shitty.
>Apple finally reversed these decisions and made the M1 MBP

They didn't. The new keyboard is still not old scissors keyboard with 1.5mm Key travel. If I remember correctly it is 1mm or 1.2mm. And it is still a huge difference for me.
Many people in specialist roles are not motivated by management attention to their work and prefer minimal involvement unless it's to remove obstacles or provide resources. Intrinsic motivation does not care if boss cares about the work...
Marketing is just raising awareness for things you might enjoy. I don't think it has to be that deep.

They are doing marketing to get me to buy things. You are doing marketing to get me to NOT buy something.

The iPhone enabled everyone to see consumer buying cycles in that most people don't go buy the 11-12-13-14-15-16, they go 11-16 and 13-17 and the like. It's the same with all products. Most people don't buy every single new model, unless they are an enthusiast, in which case who are you to say what someone's hobbies are?
... and C++ is a much more complex language than C.
When I remember correctly the non-docker install instructions were a bit buried on GitHub but Open WebUI runs fine in a venv.
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I don’t think Mac touchpads have had any buttons for years.
the paid version is probably not much better
I see it like this:

You can either disguise your operation as a goofy sewer inspection van and hope you trick every single person who notices it into second-guessing themselves along the lines of "surely the FBI would be more low-key than that..."

Or you can just be low-key in the first place, end of story. I assume the tech in the modern day (as compared to, like, the 80s when this trope was born) is advanced enough to facilitate this option.
I understand if you don't like AI art. If Time Portal inspires anyone to learn more about history, I will be happy.
Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book
It allowed me to do a horse, but-

https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/DkQ5SSdT/image.png

Pixelwave generates much better horse-people, in the event I wanted that. Admittedly it doesn't have an edit function; unfortunately the illustrations I want to edit all have people in them.

Realistic photos work better, though it still doesn't beat Flux.1-dev: https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/ZsouXNpn/image.png
To me, Motherduck have so far been excellent stewards for DuckDB. I want them to find a sustainable business model.

I doubt they’ll ever enshittify DuckDB core. It’s clear they’re only aiming for better integration with their paid service via peripherals like UI to improve the experience, but you also don’t need to use it?

It’s all extensions that you can develop the end.
This really is the least concern in the entire mess that is phone network security. (Credit and debit card issuers have the same key distribution and derivation problem, but it's ~fine, and there are robust standard solutions, such as deriving per-card keys at the personalization site using tamper-proof HSMs.)

Even if SIM cards were to feature an asymmetric private key: What would you do with it? How would you look it up, and what would you use it for? There is simply no provision for end-to-end encryption in the phone network at the moment.

If there were, it would be a different story, of course, but I doubt that will ever happen.
I always thought that Asimov's Laws of Robotics ("A robot may not injure a human being" etc) were an interesting prop for science fiction, but wildly disconnected from the way computing & robotics actually work.

Turns out he was just writing LLM prompts way ahead of his time.
It's MPL licensed. Perhaps they should have chosen a different license if they want to be compensated.
Here's the best tool for finding usability issues:
https://aistudio.google.com/live

You share the screen with Gemini, and tell it (using your voice) what you are trying to do. Gemini will look at your UI and try to figure out how to accomplish the task, then tell you (using its voice) what to click.

If Gemini can't figure it out you have usability issues. Now you know what to fix!
I believe, CO2 is actually more thermodynamically efficient if used in supercritical freezers? It's just much more difficult to work with, as you need all the tubing to withstand about 90 atmospheres of pressure.
PuTTY icons stand the test of time. Literally looks like it’s out of 1996. While SVG versions are nice, it would have been a great opportunity to introduce a cleaner, more modern style. I digress though, I bet people would riot because they can’t find it in their start menu.

Congrats on the revamp. My ADD pixel brain always looked at the lightning bolt with cringe as it activates my OCD “pixel lines need to be perfect”.
Yeah I agree. The 2016 MBP officially started the Mac Dark Ages which lasted until the M1 was released.

The 2015 and 2014 models weren't that great either since they were using old 4th gen Haswell Intel CPUs which ran super hot.
Support orgs love to measure how long it takes to close tickets, but rarely whether the problem was actually resolved, or customer sentiment.

I had a friend who worked for an Cable ISP decades ago in the UK. Management of support management got outsourced to another company, who set aggressive targets for call length. Not average call length, but call length of any call they received. Any call that went over the target was a mark against the support person, and if you got more than a few marks you got a dressing down by the supervisor, a few more after that would get you a written warning, and then a few more would see you fired.

It started out at 15 minutes, and that was okayish. It took about 6 minutes to reboot a cable modem and have it come on-line, and that was done with almost every single support case, and fixed at least half of them.

Then they cut it down to 10 minutes. That was squeezing it a bit. 4 minutes at the most to do all introductions, hear the problem, wait for modem reboot and test things were resolved.

Then they cut it down to 5 minutes. The support folks had literally no choice but to just randomly hang up on people as soon as they got close to 5 minutes, or ask them to do a reboot of the modem and phone back. "Oh, I'm sorry, we must have been randomly disconnected"
I’m inspired by this on so many levels. What a renaissance man.

> I warn you! This music is not for the faint of heart. Despite my lack of sound mixing experience, vocal training, or general common sense, I have created a poignant distillation of the human condition.
You come off as incredibly arrogant too, you just don't realise it because you have the current mainstream opinion and the safety of a crowd.

Do you know how fucking obnoxious it is when 200 people like you come into every thread to tell 10 C or Javascript developers that they can't be trusted with the languages and environments they've been using for decades? There are MILLIONS of successful projects across those two languages, far more than Rust or Typescript. Get a fucking grip.
In an ideal world they shouldn't have to, but in the real world, it makes it easier for enterprises to adopt without friction. Adopting three tools is a threefold bigger challenge in enterprises, but thinking about it as a single tool makes it more amenable to enterprise adoption where it's needed the most. The merging I suggest is only logical, more like a bundling.
Interesting use of the word 'objectively' there.
Yeah this one is really frustrating.