skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit flips in RAM happen often enough to be an issue.

I make a desktop program with a sizeable installation base and it uses a form paged on-disk storage for larger data sets. The code has a fair amount of asserts in it and one specific assert would keep failing in a very tiny percentage of the cases. I kept reviewing the code and scratching my head before finally adding some extra logging for this case.

Lo and behold, in all failed cases an argument passed to a function had one of the bits set for no apparent reason. I.e. the offsets of pages in the cache would be:

00000000000000 ...
00000000100000 ...
00000000200000 ...
00000000300000 ...

But the args would come in as

80000000100000
00040000200000
01000000300000
...

Followed up with the people who reported these, asked to run an overnight RAM test and ALL of them found issues with their RAM. That was quite an eye-opener.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history
You're describing a horrible, terrifying but very likely future. We should fight against it as hard as we can.
True, that does remove the necessity of the table. However, I was checking how the Babylonians did it and the article that I read seems to indicate that they used base-60 tables. On a different note, does anyone know if this method has been exploited on CPUs without multiplication circuitry in the ALU?
Usually on Apple’s platforms ARC and GC are treated separately because Objective-C has shipped with a conventional garbage collector as well as reference counting and it’s difficult to tell them apart otherwise.
Certain stories about Apple coopting Bay Area police forces to track down their lost prototypes, would indicate that some zaibatsu already have, in practice, their paramilitary. And of course oil companies have had military-grade security basically forever.
In China people have to worship CCP;
In India people have to worship RSS;
I asked my neuroscientist friend about this a few months ago and his response was that inserting electrodes and interacting with the brain is the easy part: preventing the body from rejecting them or forming scar tissue over them after a few weeks is the hard part that nobody has been able to solve yet.
The solution is to allow multiple app stores. Want the safety that Apple provides? Don't install other stores. Maybe block it in the settings. Want more choice? Install other stores.
I'm not sure I agree with the parent poster, surely this isn't exactly murder.
> Lol. Please, stop for just a second, and imagine that situation. This guy responds to a personal ad for sex. Gets a response that says "i'm 13" and a picture of a middle-aged man. Goes over to the poster's house, is greeted by that same middle-aged man, and goes inside.

You're imagining situations. If you get back to reality you'll find that the convicted sex offender got a response from a 13 year old girl stating repeatedly and quite clearly that she was 13 years old, and he not only acknowledged she was 13 years old old but also decided it was in his best interests to try to have sex with a 13 year old girl.

I mean, are you so desperate to defend a conviced sex offender who was caught in the act that you even feel compelled to claim that pics people send through dating sites are the absolute source of truth regarding who that person is and is represented? Really?

> I'm already tired of hearing you say this.

You're in a discussion on how a convicted sex offender was caught by the police trying to have sex with a 13 year old girl he met online. If you are tired of hearing the facts for whatever reason, whether they are inconvenient to you or you simply prefer to cherry-pick info that makes you feel comfortable, then that issue has nothing to do with this discussion or the topic, but it's a personal issue you need to address.

> Look, I'm not saying Hambrick had no ill intentions.

The guy was caught trying to meet a 13 year old girl for sex, while fully aware that she was 13 years old. Of course he had ill intentions. That's why he, and a bunch of other sex offenders, were caught and trialed and sentenced by a court of law in the same sting.
What you see on that website is the cost, not the earnings though. If a private exploit costs $1.2k, you can get 5 digits by selling it 9 times. That isn't a huge number of sales, but I don't know if this exploit would sell that many times. Anyway, by disclosing on H1 you're "selling" at most once.
I would argue that they are not, as far as the typical consumer is concerned. Consoles have historically been single-purpose devices, that purpose being to play games. Whilst there have been varying moves across the three big manufacturers to include additional functionality, game-playing is still the single most important feature - you probably wouldn't even call it a console if it didn't play games.
I don't believe robots will have human level walking skills in our lifetime. This is something that looked easy for 70 years. Hans Moravec described why it was harder than it looked. It is possible to look impressive by pouring in more brains and money but unless you have a general purpose breakthrough it can not be useful and economical.

AI vs AGI is well understood in cognitive tasks but tasks that require motion would also require a parallel breakthrough.
Apple is know to cracking down abuse of developer accounts, so they could ended up playing cat and mouse game with apple. Also, the dev tools are probably licensed in a way that you can't use it legally after getting kicked out of apple dev program. Maybe epic can get around this by divesting unreal engine into a separate company. I think it's already done that (unreal is under epic international), but as apple was considering taking down epic international's account too, maybe that too is not enough.
According to Wikipedia ([1]), Charles Putney implemented the quarter-square method for the 6502.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Quart...
How does it make even a little sense to compare this to murder?
2018 article and paper [1] suggesting that the Dark Triad [2] of personality traits, comprised of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, can be generalized into a D-factor similar to the g-factor in intelligence.

From my perspective, the Dark Triad seems to be an obsession with zero-sum interactions or possibly discounting positive-sum interactions (narcissism and Machiavellianism?) while simultaneously miscalculating/misunderstanding the cost of being socially ostracized in response (psychopathy?).

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Morten_Moshagen/publica...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
Fair enough, I did not read the article too carefully, and thought that the config checker was the part of sshd that validates the configuration when the daemon is starting.
Network effects can be and in this case very much are a barrier to entry.
I have a couple such on my WWW site. (-:

But in fairness edent's problems were finding out who to address the mail to and how to format the message, not how to actually use electronic mail in the first place; and one might as well note that the procedure is also missing "learn how to plug in a keyboard" and "learn how to edit C source code", if one is going to take it that far.
Regulations are for protecting the people and ensuring no monopoly takes place. Just because no laws exist now doesn't mean there shouldn't be. The choice the companies should have is either you follow those regulations or don't sell your product.

As far as I know in Apple ecosystem its very hard to have apps installed in your device if its not in the store. That is not how it should be. It's my phone my decision. It should be like it is on android.

Other countries apart from US should have extensive set of regulations to protect consumers and ensure no monopoly takes place. These regulations should be about what companies are allowed or not allowed to do.
AWS is pretty much blocked in China, the China version and Azure's are what can best described as locally owned franchises.
g the statistical myth https://web.archive.org/web/20200624122604/https://bactra.or...
I’m sure that phenomenon exists but I doubt it’s universal. It seems obvious that many narcissists, in wanting to be loved, have learned to avoid making statements that make a majority of people dislike them.
They have; you may have heard of ransomware. :)
That’s pretty harsh to your wife, isn’t it? Your life with her is “just a bunch of pain and boredom”? It would make a difference to her if you die today or 40 years from now.
Someone should write a fake event generator that clutters their analytics
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
Luckily, customs officers do not believe product labels, they have more reliable sources of information like port of departure. I guess, this documentation also could be faked, just hope it's not that easy. Vietnam is a competitor and adversary of China, they would try preventing "hijacking" of their products
The First Two Weeks in a New Role
EU laws have fixed implementation deadlines and financial penalties for failing to implement them. If it completes the legislative process, it will happen. But indeed said process could be slow.
I would say they could be fraudulent, certainly in the gray zone. Their profit in 1H 2020 was just $120M despite receiving $780M from regulatory credits, which is not sustainable and scalable. If governments stop giving Tesla money, they're deep in the red again.
consider murder a metasyntactic variable
> If we had 10 times more time to live, we wouldn‘t necessarily be getting ten times more out of it.

We would probably need to work 10 times longer, because everything would be more expensive. We compete for scarce resources with other people, and if we have more time and they have too, the extra time will be burned in the zero-sum competitions.
Joe Armstrong [pdf]
Quote:
"Armstrong: I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object- oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

If you have referentially transparent code, if you have pure functions—all the data comes in its input arguments and everything goes out and leaves no state behind—it’s incredibly reusable. You can just reuse it here, there, and everywhere. When you want to use it in a different project, you just cut and paste this code into your new project."
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Simple Regex: SQL-like language to create regular expressions
This is not a valid analogy.

I am not renting my phone from Apple, I own it. So when I am buying an instance of Disneyland, being able to install my own hotdog stands is a perfectly reasonable expectation.
Hub and spoke public transport is dead. It relies on huge infrastructure investment and open access.

The future is autonomous minibusses with algorithmically-derived live routes, served on a subscription basis by private companies to private individuals. This way people of similar socioeconomic status can rub shoulders with eachother and feel more comfortable, and receive a greater standard of service.

It might very well be necessary to modify roads and road rules to facilitate autonomous vehicles - that's the kind of public investment we should be making.
When playing with Agat, Soviet Apple II clone, I've altered couple of bytes in RWTS (reat/write track/sector) routine from nop;nop; to clicking sound. That way I got gentle rattle wheh floppy was reading/writing okay and pauses when something was going wrong.

Later I've found out that piece of code was written by Wozniak himself.
I believe most people just don't notice the judder, and many of the rest don't care. E.g. it took a lot of convincing to get Google to add "use 50p output" to Chromecast settings years ago (and that didn't fix 24p of course, just European 25p/50p which is more severely
affected).

Also, most high-end TVs are able to recover the original 24p (or other) frame rate and thus remove the judder by using specific settings: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/c9-oled/settings#judder

I tested with a high-speed camera that with correct settings my old Samsung UE75H6475 was able to recover the original frame rate perfectly from quite a few framerate mangling combinations. Haven't done similar testing with my current C9, though.
> And turn it into this: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

This wastes so much vertical space. Honestly, http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is a lot better.
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/suspected-kenosha-shoot...

I was under the impression it was illegal for a minor to be open carrying. By illegal gun I meant not registered to him, correct me if I'm wrong. Was it legal for him to own the gun in Illinois? He was also breaking curfew.
That’s not what “dark pattern” means. Dark patterns are designed to cheat or deceive.

The blue bubbles are quite useful because it lets you know if your message is being transmitted encrypted or not (green SMS bubbles mean effectively cleartext).
But they aren’t more successful through the blog platform, instead by providing website foundation most companies use to create company websites, e-commerce websites and, a few of them, blogs.
I'm also interested in knowledgable information, but my speculation (having read how the Confederates viewed themselves how the Nazis viewed themselves, how the Juntas viewed themselves, etc.) is that people agree with the statement because they see it as intuitively obvious for specific others, who come readily to mind, and whether yet other others will think they're an asshole doesn't really cross their minds (unless they're very high on Machiavellianism?)

Some traditional others We are more deserving than:

- They who are sinful
- They who are from somewhere else
- They who are genotypically XX

or, for the HN context:

- They who have poor english skills
- They who have poor technical skills
- They who have an industry ripe for disruption
I agree that Black Mirror is one of the few original attempts at doing proper scifi about the near future, that we’ve had in quite some time. I wish it were not so utterly depressing, my mental health can barely stomach a single episode every month or so. If that were a genre, I would call it “cybercynical”.
There's plenty of information about organ harvesting in China from reliable sources. Your attempts to cover them look a bit awkward.

https://youtu.be/x2N__G6qJt8
You can load vBucks directly through the Epic website now. Apple is not preventing that. They are preventing advertising it on device and bypassing their on device payment processing. All Epic needed to do was disable in-app purchases like Netflix did if they wanted to get their money directly. Customer wants to get vBucks. Epic support site says go here. Inconvenient? Certainly. But it is clearly delineated who you are giving money to and how. You are leaving the app ecosystem and entering the open web with the need for additional caution. Short of a warning pop up where you need to type your passcode I would not want less from the current system. Say Epic decides to auto bill you every time you open a loot box?
>The paper also argues that standard time aligns more naturally with our circadian rhythm... but doesn't bother to compare that with the psychological benefit we get from hanging out with friends in daylight after work in the summer, or the psychological benefit of it not being dark when you go home and have dinner with your family.

Why can't most people wake up early instead. That's precisely what will happen once dst goes away. I still don't understand why you need to change time at all. Countries that don't have dst will never understand why you will have dst in today's day and age. It feels like a tradition you won't let go of.
Confused animals.

Also, the mirror would cause shading on whatever part of the Earth they passed over, which all things considered is probably a good thing. (If the mirror is big enough and close enough, some people might get to see a full eclipse.)

There'd be local heating in the target city though, which could be good or bad. If the mirror is only used in the winter, it could be a net positive and reduce icy road conditions and heating bills somewhat.
At least it is mouthful.
> Definitely not the first time a tech product has been delayed!

True! But in this case, the issue for most part wasn't just a delay because work took longer - but the question of whether or not it can be mathematically proven to work was open (and if it can't be proven to be possible and working, there's no point in trying). My intuition told me the result will be "it's not possible; waste in PoW is fundamental to these kinds of structures". I'm relieved to see I was wrong.
Just as there was nothing stopping you from installing Firefox for viewing your favorite webpages, before the browser choice screen was introduced.

The problem isn't installing apps. It's installing app-stores: the programs we use for exploring and accessing apps.
I've heard that vitamin D play a big part in successful recovery. Northern Hemisphere gets their vitamin D mostly in summer so this is the time when European immunity is the strongest?
Just because you are doing something for hundreds of years doesn't mean its not stupid.
With all the myriad improvements, bells and whistles added to various Linux window managers over the years and [without installing hacks or pluginsI I still have to open a file to find out what's inside it.

I'm no great fan of OSX's Finder. It has a list of flaws as long as your arm, but the ability to hit <spacebar> with a file selected and get a popup preview of its content, whether video, image, text or source code is something I use multiple times a day. Why, after all these years, have no Linux distros adopted this oh-so-basic feature?
> And I never had problem with switching. Takes a night sleep or two at most.

Don't bother to try arguing that here or on Reddit.

Apparently 99% of people in those conversations go to sleep, fall asleep and wake up at the exact same time every single day of the year. No week-end, no trip, no dinner, no special thing to care about, no sport, no entertainment, nothing. Nothing ever changes their habit. And in that parallel world, they must also all leave under the equator, since the sun does also rise at the exact same time all year long, rising time doesn't shift much more than a one-hour change (heck, actually even under the equator, you get a similar span of variation).

Also, energy savings are usually dismissed as being tiny. Except that we spend years investing billions and billions in order to save energy / reduce CO2 emissions and barely reach this "tiny" level of savings which is obtained by simply shifting the needle of a clock twice a year, in a simplistic process which has been working for decades.
You'd think so, and no doubt there are some, but the study says otherwise:

In a series of 11 experiments involving more than 2,200 people of all ages, the researchers found they could reliably identify narcissistic people by asking them this exact question (including the note):

To what extent do you agree with this statement: “I am a narcissist.” (Note: The word “narcissist” means egotistical, self-focused, and vain.)
and less strong systems , also, become black boxes for other systems...
Cyberpunk is to the early internet generations what beat literature was to boomers.
That is not true, there are many car parts I can replace without voiding the warranty. Tires, oil, windscreen wipers, seats, car stereo, the exhaust, the battery, the list goes on. You are perhaps focusing on engine parts only. Apple is not so lenient.
You can't "drastically" raise taxes _just_ on fossil fuels though. You'll be "drastically" raising them on every single thing, disproportionately harming the poor.
It appears you assume that since people had to be at work 6am they liked it back in the day.
what the fuck does fucking being male have to do with this?
There is no way this is true for all business transactions. Maybe financial transactions, but are AWS/GClound/et al API calls not business transactions?
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones: https://qntm.org/abolish
The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB
I just used this to build a really neat little workflow. Wasn’t sure if it would work but the results were amazing.

The workflow took company logos and turned them into squares, in a specified size, with the logo in black, the background in white, 20% padding around the edge, and png-crushed. They looked fantastic at the end.

Steps like flat background colour removal just worked. Transparency handled fine. Pretty intuitive.

Only minor gripes would be I found a few images that crashed it. Resaving them as other formats fixed that. And the UI for manipulating the workflow step connections is a bit fiddly.
Not really: https://outline.com/FnfbkD

"The company is now down to just two of its eight original founding scientists."
Fair enough.

I was a quite good SC/SCBW player back in the day though, and I was up to date with obscure game mechanics and unit stats and "current meta" (way before it was ever called that). Yet with all that, the game still felt like it had much bigger possibility space. Something I never felt about MOBA games.

(Come to think of it, maybe I just don't like the "team sports with strangers!" aspect of the currently popular multiplayer games - MOBAs, Battle Royales, whatever the genre it is Overwatch falls into, etc.)
You can find this in Epic's filing. As you point out, Epic's federal antitrust claims were not as well received as their claims based on California law at the temporary restraining order stage, but they have not been finally resolved. https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...

> Apple conditions app developers’ access to app distribution through the App Store on their agreement to use Apple’s IAP to process all their customers’ in-app purchases of in-app content ... Epic is likely to prove that this conduct is: (a) tying per se; (b) an unreasonable restraint of trade under Section 1 of the Sherman Act under the rule of reason; (c) unlawful maintenance of a monopoly under Section 2; and (d) a denial of access to an essential facility under Section 2.
Nope. Ban on hi-tech products and weapons do not affect starving civilians in any way, this is solely responsibility of ruling dictators. Exactly like it happened in Russia, in response of banning hi-tech from exporting to Russia, our authorities imposed ban on importing food and medications.