jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It seems like the easiest answer is to fork the cryptography library

I would suggest that not only isn't the easiest answer, it's not an answer at all. Because...

> new maintainers and those on unsupported architectures can continue to use the C implementation

...there will be no new maintainers. This came up a few times three weeks ago, and so far, a (small!) number of people have hopefully suggested that it would be nice if "someone" volunteered, none of them have actually followed through, and as far as I can tell, interest as only waned since.
So then Apple pushes an quick update to disable login after N days.

You're splitting hairs here about Apple choosing to share their user data with the Chinese government over their user's privacy.
Is there anything you would've done differently during that campaign?

Did the money come from the companies' tech budgets?

Was it a one lump sum pre-payment or periodic payments? Were there any strings like deliverables attached?

Hope this is not too much to ask, I'm really interested in the process.

I am developing something almost completely the opposite -- a website platform designed only for small-scale deployments by individuals and small communities, with purposeful mechanisms to limit/control growth, and for now deliberately without any finances, fregan.

Recently I have been coming to terms with the idea that I may get a lot further if I attract outside help, but currently I don't have much to pay with, and I've not made it easy for someone to just jump in and start contributing.

I am learning a lot from your answers.
If you only wanted 10 or 16Mbps (e.g. to interface with historical equipment) you could bit-bang it with a cheap 200MHz microcontroller. Then the only custom electronics needed is the analog bits.
Just add this to your .vimrc

set timeout timeoutlen=1000 ttimeoutlen=100 " Fix slow O inserts
very bad idea for many reasons
wow what the hell? I did not expect it to only go to 62.5MHz. My bad. I thought it covered all the way up to UHF.
> Don't limit yourself to local candidates. Especially somewhere like NYC.

For many roles we're very open to hiring remote developers. Even that is rather challenging. (Though for lead roles, we do ask that you be based in NYC because it involves a lot of brainstorming with writers/analysts.)
A call for immigration reform is almost always an attempt to reduce wages and to avoid having to train people, instead of a real shortage.

The likely result of open borders would be something like London startup salaries, which are extremely low (measured by what the amount of money buys you in London) for people that aren't on the upper end of the skill range with years of experience.

Entry level salaries will barely get you by and you'll have to live in a shared apartment for 5 years or so until you can afford to rent a place on your own (if you're smart enough to up your skill-set in that time).

This is due to a small startup ecosystem and the ability for most Europeans to access the UK's job market.
The existence of the Kindle with Amazon's android fork seems to be good evidence to the contrary; another company took the code and made their own fork. Sure, upstream might not be making changes to support Kindle, but it's open so they can apply those patches.
I appreciate the warm advice and compliment. Relaxation sounds wonderful. Going to finish this "Buddha walks into a bar" book with a cup of tea soon.
Several sites provide apis or daily dumps of their torrents, so I am loading them, indexing them, and then scraping the trackers for their information.

How technical do you want?
I'm looking to expand my knowledge into more areas as well! Some things interest me like mechanics, electronics, plumbing, firearms. Ill definitely check out Mike Rowes thing, I didn't know he had something like that going. I used to love Dirty Jobs.
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In Norway, personal bankruptcy requires an application to the debt enforcement office (a local government authority). If the application is accepted, the debtor gives up all their assets and submits to paying all of their earnings towards their debt, for five years. A politically determined subsistence sum is all they get to keep for themselves.

After five years, the agreement ends and the debt is cleared. Each person can only apply once in their life. Any future runaway debts cannot be cleared without the consent of each creditor, which probably won't happen. Unsure how this is done in the rest of Scandinavia.
In all fairness this was a particularly special case. And from a long time ago, way past the time anyone would be worried if he really had been a spy for Imperial Japan.
That Ars article is 9 months old and there have been no postings in the ars hardware guide section since January. Since then, Intel updated its product line with i3/i5/i7, so I think the poster is right to ask for a different source.
Peloton subscriber here.

£40/month is worth it. The quality of the classes is impeccable. It's like they've been produced with TV budgets! This price does also include the digital membership which has yoga, boxing and loads of other type of workouts.

The bike (Bike+) is expensive but it's a solid piece of kit and does come with a 24 inch (Android) tablet.

Edit: Forgot to say, the £40/month is per bike, not per member. So you can have your entire family using the bike for the £40/month.
I used to work in an old mill (NW UK) converted to industrial units and we got to the top floor using an old lever operated lift. The lever had three positions, up, down, and stop. The door was a couple of sets of sliding gratings.

I seem to recall that there was a locking system but I can't quite recall what it was. It was either that here was some sort of piece of metal that stuck out from the lift shaft and only allowed the doors to be opened at certain positions in the shaft, or that the lift wouldn't operate without the doors being closed, or some combination of both.
You really have to be more specific for such a strong claim. Especially when it's qualified by "openly states". I call bullshit.
I don't think there's a simple answer to that. There are a mind-boggling number of factors at play and no major study, to my knowledge, has isolated poverty's covariants in a way that would let us say which specific factors outside of poverty itself are the primary drivers of poor outcomes among the impoverished.
Swarm them.

When one is approaching 20%, send one that's charged to replace it. Once the replacement has arrived, return the depleted one to the charging station and do not charge past 80% or so.

If you make the charger smart enough to not completely charge the battery, and you have a ..eh.. Battery of copters available, you've solved the problem
I recall seeing articles on what may be described as high tech long johns. They were covered in sensors that would give you a readout about every major muscle on your body. Hook that up to a stripped down Watson that can tell you exactly when and how you are doing wrong.
From the article:

> The only way to get an 8-bit 1.44Mhz machine with 64K of memory

It was below 1 MHz, I remember there were 63 microseconds per horizontal line (PAL). So the clock frequency must have been a bit below 1 MHz, maybe 0.98 MHz or so.
The problem with your rationale ("I can buy it then give it away to a friend") is that while it is certainly possible to do that, it ignores the creator's rights (both to control their creation and therefore be compensated for its use according to rules that they set, not you), and removes the incentive to create.

Your aunt's pine cone example is stupid because that's a trivial task. Making a movie or an album is not a trivial task, so you can't really compare.

If you aunt built homes, and then people just moved into them without paying for them, I'm no sure you'd be telling the same story.

No one is asking to be paid simply for creating something, they are asking to be paid when people consume that creation, when they benefit/enjoy/use it.

I'm not sure you get that.
And why should an Artificial Intelligence bow to human ethics? Surely they have their own agenda. If we have any hope of interacting with alien intelligences should we encounter them in the galaxy, we must learn to deal with the ones we create here. Without obsessing over controlling them as slaves.
I said that in a philosophy exam in school, and got a D- for it
The technology page makes me thing the viewing angle is going to be more narrow than e-ink; the shape of the surface and the difference in index of refraction when on and off is going to determine how well they can do on that metric, but the complete lack of any mention of viewing angle makes me think it's not great.

[edit]

https://youtu.be/zjJ2-cdhwMQ?t=219

It's B&W and much lower contrast than current gen e-paper, but viewing angle looks great (maybe 120 degrees confirmed from the video?). They definitely need a matte surface though; that glare was terrible.
The problem with social media users (and propagandas victims in general) has nothing to do with how computers work and everything to do with how people work.
People are already contributing code and resources to the actual catastrophic, existential AI risk du jour, the one that is likely to cause massive political disruption and potentially attendant destruction of value and/or human life: the algorithmic news feed.
I don't think Facebook was ever a "perfect trap for the VC/PM class". Quora was, though - from the outside, Clubhouse really reminds me of the early days of Quora, with a nucleus of densely connected Silicon Valley elite drawing in a crowd of early adopters.

Quora ended up being like if Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn had a baby. I expect Clubhouse to go in a similar direction.
> Very few people are are against any new growth in cities.

It seems you’ve never met a NIMBY.

“No new people in my city” is actually a pretty surprisingly popular position. Usually these people are super pro growth, as long as that’s somewhere else.
But add on top of that the cost of public transit infrastructure. 1 mile of underground BART line cost $1,500 per person. And that ignores maintenance.
> Use a weather balloon or rocket or something and go high on the Mexican side.

High is visible and traceable. Unpowered glide is also traceable. Anything which stays in view too long is going to get filmed with by someone with a cellphone and a GPS. Low and fast wins.

You want to stay low and cover a long curved path (preferably whose radius changes) so that the release of the payload is invisible and really hard to trace (a 40 mile path over a sparsely populated forest would be really hard to track).

> so this must be used or not have enough payload capacity to make it more profitable than other methods

I suspect more profitable is the answer to why it isn't done. Why pay $10,000 for a drone when you can pay $5,000 for a human mule that you need at either end anyhow?
Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but isn't that effectively what a closure is in an imperative language?

def forever
loop do yield end
end

forever do
name = gets
puts "Hello, name"
end

or even

template <typename F>
void forever(const F& fn) { for (;;) fn(); }

int main()
{
forever([]
{
std::string str;
getline(std::cin, str);
std::cout << "Hello, " << str << '\n';
});
}

looks a lot like the above code to me.
And compiling and running unexamined source is completely safe. Unlike running a binary.
It's Michens' MOSSAD/not-MOSSAD question[1]. Any half-decent encryption will protect you from bulk collection and monitoring, but if you're targeted, you lose.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thisworld...
I don't understand how people wear crocs. To me they are some of the most uncomfortable shoes ever. The foot slides around rubbing against whichever side in the direction you're going and there is no even support.
I wonder if there is any measurable impact from share buybacks propping up or raising price which increases market cap which causes index funds to increase their holdings which then also props up or raises the price, etc.
I try to read all perspectives. I appreciate that a lot of people believe vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic, but I think it's a mistake to put 'all the eggs in one basket. I haven't noticed much in the way of efforts to help people become healthier so they can have mild cases of COVID-19, COVID-21, COVID-23, etc.

Furthermore, why are the medical industry wasting vaccine supply on people who are already immune due to surviving their infection? If a person loses antibodies after 6 months from a natural infection, why would they be expected to have antibodies for longer from a vaccine?

I haven't noticed many attempts to rationalize vaccinating people who've already had a case of the SARS-CoV-2. The CDC says "Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19." [0] But that's just "trust us we're experts."

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.htm...

This week I learned my hair stylist had a mild case in January. She diligently wears her mask, but was not protected from getting exposed to her symptomatic co-worker. She was symptomatic herself for 5 days, and recovered without getting too sick. (Her husband was not so lucky, but survived his hospitalization.) She said she's waiting patiently until she too can get vaccinated.

My uncle got himself hospitalized in December 2020 or January 2021. He recovered, but just got vaccinated anyways, even though he certainly still had the antibodies. My brother said our uncle was attesting to his faith in in the vaccine - I think the technical term is "virtue signaling". I think my uncle ought to know better than to use vaccines recreationally.

My brother and his wife both had SARS-CoV-2... He was rather sick for a week or two. She was asymptomatic, but tested positive for antibodies. They both got vaccinated, 7 months after their illness/exposure. My brother was presumably coerced by his workplace, she was probably virtue signaling too.

SARS-CoV-1 burned out after two years. Why would this version be any different?

Is not vaccinating people who've already recovered from SARS-CoV-2 the smarter approach to achieving population immunity?
Answer: It is not.

It's an erlang bug.
Your point 3, a la Graham-Dodd, is how Buffett started. But later he realized that did not scale when you own businesses forever instead of trading them. Buying a whole dollar for 50 cents is great if you can quickly sell it for 75. Not so much if you hold it forever and it does not grow. So basically acquiring Berkshire Hathaway the textile maker on the cheap was an investment mistake that he acknowledged in his annual letters.

Price movement is not relevant if your stated goal is to hold the business and earn an income from its operations. Technology eventually becomes obsolete or commoditized.
I worked for several years in the 90's on United Airlines' computer reservation system, on the team that managed seat reservations. I proposed the window-middle-aisle scheme to a task force that wanted to improve boarding times, and they ran a pilot for a while, but never implemented it widely, probably because of how disruptive it was to groups and families.

Separately, I have done a lot of flying for business, and I've lost count of how many times I've seen people put their bags in an overhead compartment several rows in front of their assigned seat. The best way to speed up boarding would be to eliminate the overhead compartment entirely. But I don't expect that ever to happen.
> a technicality

It's not a technicality if the video can't be distinguished from perfect nonsense. Just as you don't let someone with a documented history of hallucinations testify on their own.
Even the washing is so bad now, that it doesn't even matter:

- The spec we're discussing was "proposed" sometime in 2019. Here's a comment from WebKit on March 27 2020:

--- quote ---

I notice that this proposal still exists only in a random personal repo. Could it please be contributed to an appropriate standards or incubation group?

--- end quote ---

At sometime they did move it to the appropriate group

- WebHID that is now shipped in Chrome. They asked for Mozilla's position, and Mozilla couldn't even understand the proposal: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459

And this keeps happening over and over and over and over again.

Their reaction when they are called out? When Mozilla and Safari flat-out refused to implement Constructible StyleSheets as they were spec'ed, Chrome still released them (because their own devs from lit-html relied on them), and said https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1220451799032877057

--- quote ---

We often lead, balancing risk/reward rather than demanding a particular point in an arbitrary process.

Leadership is rather the point of having an engine team, after all.

--- end quote ---

That is what they call "leadership".
Fly is really nice. I’ve been getting my head around microvms recently to build some infrastructures around them. Even started building some tools to rebuild them directly from Dockerfiles and Docker images.

If anybody is interested: https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild

It’s very early stages so many things could be improved but things are working.
Well... I did some digging.

The Great Dying you speak of happened to coincide with an asteroid crater off the coast of Antarctica [0]. I haven't been able to find an accurate globe of the continents at that time ([1] doesn't show the poles in great detail), but it does look like eastern Siberia was at the antipode of the Australia/Antarctica boundary. So the theory seems to hold up -- at least from the confines of my armchair, that is.

[0] https://www.universetoday.com/8221/huge-asteroid-crater-in-a...

[1] https://resize.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/cretaceous-map.jpg
Some find it hard to communicate remotely, whether it's socially or work related. Some people binge on games or porn when they get stuck on something tough. I'd love to say that everyone who has a degree and can do assignments are mature enough, but some people just have self-control problems.
I don't know if it was a joke (good one if so), but you seem to have mixed the operators up in your example.
From what I can tell, It’s just restructuring, and basically undoing a questionable prior organizational division at that. They have a lot of research centers around the world and don’t seem to slow down their AI efforts at all.
Denmark isn't the US. The "minorities" you are talking about in those so-called gangs are as Danish as they come. Most gang members in Denmark are in motorcycle gangs like Hells angles and it not like the rest are made up of foreigners and minorities only either. There's approximately 1200 gang members in all of Denmark:

https://dkr.dk/ungdomskriminalitet/bander/bander-i-tal/
And this is an issue... how exactly ?
(Remember who one of his companies named after ?)
Maybe one day everyone will adopt PowerShell as the CLI standard.

PS scripts (and even functions) declare command line arguments up front, and depending on how much time and thought you put into it, you can constrain the arguments quite well. See [0] for overview of the available functionality. A quick TL;DR:

- You can make parameters typed, and PS will handle relevant conversion if the user just types strings in. E.g. you can mark a parameter as [DateTime], and if the user types e.g. "2021-04-01", the script will receive an object that represents the midnight on that day. If the user types in "foobar" instead, they'll get an immediate error[1] telling them the parameter cannot be read as a date.

- Add [] to parameter type (e.g. [DateTime[]] instead of [DateTime]), and now the parameter can accept multiple values (arrays), - but behaves smartly if only one is given.

- You can mark parameters as mandatory. You can mark parameters as positional (i.e. provided without specifying parameter name on invocation). You can mark a parameter as designated "catch-all". You can define aliases for parameters, to allow user to write e.g. -Runs, -Run or -R, and have all three refer to the same parameter.

- You can mark parameters as "accepting values from pipeline" (and define how exactly). Since PS pipes transport typed objects, not raw bytes, this is how you can both set expectations, and write scripts that can flexibly mix pipes with commandline arguments.

- You can define validation for every parameter individually.

- You can group parameters into sets, based on what other parameters are provided, or some custom logic. So e.g. if arguments -A and -B only make sense together, and then -C doesn't do anything, you can encode this cleanly.

- Autocomplete in PowerShell is aware of all these things! It'll hint you appropriately. And you can provide your own autocomplete hints too.

How is all that relevant to this thread? The last point is a spoiler: all these declarations can be extracted from the script, and they provide enough information to build a high quality GUI for the script automatically. PowerShell ISE, that comes with Windows, exploits this to a limited degree - it contains a GUI for running PS cmdlets that lists parameters and their types, makes use of optional/mandatory status, and groups them by parameter sets. There's nothing stopping one from building an equivalent UI generator that would also provide custom widgets based on argument types (e.g. file pickers for paths, calendars for DateTimes, etc.).

--

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

[1] - Errors in PowerShell are a bit user-unfriendly. Niceties like invocation with underlined mistake are surrounded by long error text and small stack trace. I wish they improved on that; even for script developers, most of the error message is quite useless.
My work laptop has been on wayland for years now. My desktop was on x11 due to nvidia drivers but now I have an amd card in it so I am back to wayland.
A run-of-the-mill quad-core Xeon E3 with some SATA SSDs. Even that is overkill as the CPU usage never goes above 1 core. You could probably get the same job done with a $20 droplet if you're frugal, or $40 with room to spare.
American Greed is a good show. Most people just look rich and get other rich people to invest. A nice suit, car, and house can’t get you pretty far I guess...even if it’s just a house of cards.
Journalists successfully predict 11 out of the last 6 AI winters.
Screensharing is possible but it is not part of wayland. The compositor/DE must implement screen sharing and manage how programs are given permission to this.