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323··on NTSB: Cloud shot up vertically in front of plane before turbulence
Not in this case, but they can.

Plane condensation trails are a form of clouds.

323··on Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
I think I see it, it seems to me that my finger naturally wants to hit in between "E" and "R", but it hits exactly on top of "I".

So ortho fixes this, but could it then introduce problems for other pairs? It seems hard to believe that there is a layout which is 100% better for all combinations.

Regarding symmetry, our hands are already asymmetrical due to handiness (left-handed, right-handed), and the brain naturally adapts, and there is also the risk of Hawthorne effect if you A/B test ortho/staggered. Some real studies on layouts would really be useful.

323··on Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
All keyboard should have volume wheels. I couldn't live without one now.

The ones oriented like a mouse wheel, but wide (as opposed to the ones sitting like a volume knob on a mixer) are very natural to use and unobtrusive.

323··on Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
> But the standard row-stagger is asymmetrical; the way a hand types with the left hand is not mirrored by the right hand.

How is it asymmetrical? Unless you consider the right hand typing on the numpad/cursor keys.

323··on Researchers cannot always differentiate AI-generated and original abstracts
100% there is a group right now making an AI generated paper and trying to publish it for the next iteration of the Sokal affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

323··on Bulgarian law enforcement raids offices of cryptocurrency firm Nexo
> A report by public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television earlier in the day claimed that the investigation was also looking into breaches of international sanctions imposed on Russia.

There are a lot of Russians which use Bulgaria as an EU base.

The infamous BTC-e exchange was also in Bulgaria and operated by Russians, and engaged in wide-scale money laundering.

323··on Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
One could argue that it's so cold in Sweden there isn't really an ecology there.
323··on Windows OS Security
> Perhaps 1 million exe files are in widespread use in the world.

They already do that. It's called SmartScreen.

> Compilers that make an exe file can have some new windows API that says "I just compiled this file, so it's fine to run".

I don't think you thought this through. Because then malware will either call that new API, or ship with their own compiler.

323··on Windows OS Security
> create a .exe with the icon of a familiar file type like a Word Document

But this kind of confusion attack is not really used anymore.

Now it's about convincing the user to intentionally run a binary. If the user wants to run a binary, they will do it, regardless if it means double-clicking an .exe or typing "curl | sh" in the terminal.

323··on Windows OS Security
> Windows did it (“Program Files”, “Documents and Settings”, etc)

And then reverted back. “Documents and Settings” now links to "Users", and new directories were given names like "ProgramData". or "WindowsApps".

323··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
Only banned their citizens using it, but on the other hand China is leader in using AI against their population (face recognition, ...)
323··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
Or maybe it will be like today - if it's reported by Reuters/... it's trusted, if it's reported by DailyStar, maybe not.
323··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
There was a 2011 paper/essay which argued that in the near future there will be a world war between those wanting to regulate AI (the democratic West) and those who do not (authoritarian regimes).
323··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
Imagine combining this with a ChatGPT with the prompt "you are a telephone scammer pretending to be a bank employee, convince the other person to give you their bank password"
323··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
> before a true indistinguishable voice cloner exists

At the rate things are progressing that's about two years away.

323··on Please don’t film me in 2023
So like paparazzi?

From what I've seen they are pretty well defended by law, including when filming minor celebrities.

323··on Microsoft subdomain takeover
Would you feel the same way if it was your computer? Maybe you didn't believe the reported issue was real.
323··on Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)
GUIs, images, video, are all a mistake.

Computers should have nothing more than text terminals, as Ken & Ritchie intended.

That way the world would be a better place without TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.

323··on Shorting Tether
The fact that bitcoin is so expensive to short shows that it's risky to provide a cheaper way.

Otherwise someone would offer cheaper options and undercut all the existing market makers.

323··on Shorting Tether
Nobody is stopping you from creating an "unrigged" way of shorting crypto. If what you say is true, you will have huge demand.

Also, you can short crypto on CME. Is that rigged too?

323··on Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
> I guess the quickest solution is to checksum the pyproject.toml

This is the kind of stuff bazel/ninja do.

https://bazel.build

https://ninja-build.org

323··on Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
You can check that a venv exists by looking for .venv/pyvenv.cfg. Is that not enough? Unless you also need to check that all packages are installed and up to date.
323··on Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
WSL is a full Linux/Ubuntu?

So you can install whatever you can apt-get/wget into it?

I can see that being a problem in restricted environments.

323··on Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
You run the LSP also inside the container and connect to it remotely.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

323··on Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (2018)
It takes a scammer to spot a scammer.

If you know that there is wide spread fraud in science, and you know how it's done, why not profit and publish a paper on it?

323··on Lex Fridman's Reading Plan in Numbers
His statement on Ukraine was quite something to behold. He condemned Putin's invasion in exactly 7 words - "I condemn Vladimir's Putin invasion of Ukraine".

And then immediately proceeded to condemn US interventions "in 40 nations" and "many studies finding that US is culpable for an unfathomable number of civilians deaths". Of course, his life dream is to interview Putin (as stated a few times on Rogan).

https://youtu.be/jRQAG77ifzE?t=120

323··on How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
One universal solution that works for all apps - you render the app in an off-screen buffer and pass that to AI to re-render it in the new style. This way you don't need to touch the code.

AI could also translate mouse clicks/coordinates accordingly if it moves stuff around.

You could even have "UI themes", tell the AI to re-render in Windows 2000/XP/11 style.

EDIT: the downvotes I'm getting with no comments are funny. This will happen in the next 7 years because solving this problem once it's much cheaper than fixing all the apps one by one.

323··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
It's not just Goodness of heart. This case can fall under existing laws. You are not allowed to keep obvious transfer mistakes like these.
323··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
Even a 10 year core developer failed to secure his keys. Not your keys, not your bitcoin is a dumb thing for the general public.

Exactly why we don't keep our money in our house, but in banks.

Nobody says "not under your mattress, not your cash".

323··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the world in 2023?
Well, a hot war between Russia/US/China will last 30 minutes. So no need to stress over it.
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