skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that argument is exhibit A for why Mars colonization is so important. It gives us a second chance to figure out how to live with existential threats.
In middlesex county massachusetts in the late 70s, early 80s we called it "kill the carrier". Rough game, I dislocated my elbow playing it. It was a wonder anyone picked up that ball.
Keep trying and making progress. There are so many testimonials out there about what a positive difference can be made by avoiding the use of "gay", "lame", etc. as insults.
I'm struggling to understand your point. It's a different threat model; of course it will manifest differently, no? A mothership-style model seems much more vulnerable to every node being compromised than the decentralized vector Win95 botnets have to go through.

I could see arguing with the inevitability of the exploit -- Win95 botnets seemed much more inevitable to me than this Tesla mothership threat does. But it seems like you're arguing that they will both have similar impact if exploited. That doesn't make sense to me, because they're completely different threats, but it's possible I'm misunderstanding your argument in some way.
Theoretically, one person who's reviewing a pull request could notice a flaw and decide to say nothing about it, hoping to exploit it later. That would be less risky than introducing the flaw themselves—although it does require lying in wait for the opportunity and could take arbitrarily long. But if person A introduces the flaw by mistake, and person B sees the opportunity...
The “Mac OS X” was more of a brand name than a singular OS. Each major release (the ones with new code names) was essentially a whole new OS. iOS just turned 13, but each year, it’s full of big changes.

I think Jobs might’ve been referring to the actual OS internals, not the brand name. As in, support period. After all, Linux (while not technically an OS) is older than Mac OS X / macOS, but it’s not obsolete. Just don’t expect to get security patches on kernels in the 2.x or 3.x range.
> If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are.

Propositionally knowing things is very different than being able to make the right decisions when the moment comes. A 10 year old neither has the fully developed prefrontal cortex of a 25 old nor the required self knowledge. They are not even in puberty and half of their emotions, desires, drives wouldn't have come online yet. They will depend an active presence of your adult perspective to make sense of themselves and the world. Don't worry, they will still make their own mind anyway.

> I won't shame them in any way.

I know you mean well, but there are legitimate instances where shame is deserved, and regardless of that, society won't pull punches on using the shame lever legitimately or not.

> Nudity isn't inherently sexual and shame is a social construct.

You are right, these are called the purity codes of a society, and like you say, they are very context dependent. But social construct or not, falling out of those contexts will have social consequences, e.g. leave your kids prone to rejection, with lessened social agency and more isolation.
I dunno if that means anything. Some of my software engineer friends have Tesla cars and love that kinda stuff. Others have old cars with very little in the way of electronics. Some have both!

Gotta remember, that every day people entrust their lives to lots of software and electronic systems. Of course, it's important to have reasonable security measure taken, but just because something's electronic doesn't make that a bad thing.
If Plato was still around, he would definitely push for 5040 it's a convenient number which can be divided many ways. For example, it would be a great number for the number of citizens in a state (polis). It has a massive 60 divisors. People were smart back then... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5040_(number)#:~:text=4%20Note....
What exactly do you mean by that? Is there some
famous story I’m not aware of?

...I can’t help but sense some crazy coming my way.
What indicators are you using to tell?
Ah okay, thank you. Not sure why the $5000 figure stuck with me
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I'll ask the simple question of "are we there yet"? Can we run algorithms like this for meaningful amounts of data on a quantum computer?
In many (most?) European languages the day is spoken before the month.

e.g. le dix-huit août, deux mille vingt
I have been. It's been fascinating to watch so many members of the President's advisory circles go to prison. Campaign chair, deputy campaign chair, personal lawyer, national security adviser, political adviser, foreign policy adviser.

If I didn't know better, I'd guess the American people elected someone to "drain the swamp" who brought a swamp with him.
"...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I invented Thalidomide."

We're talking about a technology with the potential to cause accidental aneurisms and lobotomies. Maybe some conservatism really is in order?
On my Macbook Pro, I found Linux used more energy running directly, than running inside a VM (tested with VMware Fusion).

So I'm happy running Linux in a VM.

This might be due to the dual GPUs (on higher end MBPs), I didn't check further after the initial battery test.

It's nicer anyway, because of the ability to run MacOS and Linux at the same time, and four-finger swipe between their desktops. That way I get the nicer GUI of MacOS, consistently good touchpad (including in Linux), and Linux for my command line dev needs, and can use utilities for either that aren't available on the other.

On an old Macbook Air, Linux might us less energy running directly rather than VM. To be sure you'd have to try both.

4GB of RAM is tight for current software, even Linux, and a VM will make it tighter. Firefox is using more than 4GB for me right now, and Safari is also using more than 4GB. So you will need to avoid using Firefox the way I do, regardless of OS :-)

You might need to stick with older versions of whatever you decide to use. I would pick one of the Linux distros that is explicitly for old machines and small memory usage.
Ah! I think we knew it by that name as well. Also: "kill the guy with the ball"... I think... "every man for himself football", the aforementioned regrettable "smear the queer" and "roughie-up" was apparently a very local name for it. Everybody had so many different names for it, I think everybody knew at least a handful of them!

It was sort of unique that way. I didn't know any other game that had dozens of totally unconnected names.
> The IPO is the carrot that you're dangling ahead of early employees many years prior to getting to that point.

Yes, that's essentially what I'm saying, but I wonder if there aren't some better alternatives to incentivize early employees when cash is scarce. Maybe (just off the top of my head) something like a contract to pay the employee a set dollar amount (with interest) at an undetermined point in the future, and it must be paid before any profits can be distributed to owners (there could be other triggers as well). This would be in addition to the employee's salary, which is likely to be at below-market levels when the company is still young.

It could come with additional features similar to a vesting schedule, but essentially it would (1) give the employee a known dollar amount of compensation contingent on the company's future success, (2) allow the company to remain private (if desired) while still delivering the "carrot", (3) avoid the need for an option pool, and (4) avoid the issues I described in my earlier comment. After some or all of that amount is paid to an employee, the difficulty in keeping the employee around is no different, but at that point (where profitability allows for the payout), a company is more likely be in a position to offer/renegotiate competitive salaries in the first place.

Then again, a lot of founders/owners probably don't want something so concrete because of course they benefit from being able to attract talented people at a discount by offering a tiny bit of equity and the dream of becoming a millionaire when the company IPOs or gets acquired. Heck, I've been there - on both sides of the conversation. But the truth is, a lot of people are realizing that equity isn't usually worth what a founder thinks it is, so that's becoming a less effective bargaining chip as time goes on.
My physical education teacher in High School was the spitting image of Trajan (this was late 90s). We were blown away the first time we saw a picture of Trajan in our texts. He used to call his Cadillac a "battlewagon" but after we showed him the picture he called it a "chariot" instead. Fun memories..
Hmmm... Programmers all share different flavors of common hells that seem to originate in HR or non-technical management -- you can do better than multiple-choice and yes/no questions and improve your dataset at the same time.

Ask them to:

Describe their worst interview

Complain about recruiters

Describe their worst cubicle-mate

Craft the perfect daily scrum session

Describe the dumbest flavor-of-the-week woke matchmaking attempt, "team building", personality quiz, or psychological assessment they've suffered

==

Tease out the answers and see if you can derive commonality with your culture that way. :)
I played many bad Quidditch flash games back in the day, and I enjoyed each and every one tremendously. Before the WB branding juggernaut took over, there was precious little interactive Harry Potter content online outside of the news sites, so I took whatever I could get.

Did you ever publish your game? What was it called? Tell us more!
Consider the possibility that people generally don’t want to destroy. They want to control. Asymmetric power might just force adjustments in control.

What does it look like if almost anyone can destroy concentrated populations? Maybe a police state. Maybe everyone spreads out. And then what does that do to power? Etc.

I don’t think the end result is necessarily that someone pushes the button and we all die out.

I think The Expanse revealed an interesting iteration of this concept: the ability to capture and hurl asteroids at your enemy.
Conway's Game of Life was my first and always is my favorite thing to be programmed (the runner ups are the Mandelbrot set and strange attractors), to the point that I messed around with its rules and became the continuous CA you see at the bottom of the blog post.

And the technologies and science have changed a lot. It was Pascal and Assembly and maybe BASIC in my first try, now it's Python, TensorFlow, WebGL etc. Back then I know nothing about the theory of complex systems, it turns out that the Game of Life and a whole bunch of fascinating emergent systems are at the crossroads of complex systems, artificial life, and artificial intelligence research (see Neural CA, CA-NEAT, etc).

As for Conway's resentment of his own creation, I was told that his friend showed the continuous CA to Conway last year, and he was mesmerized by its complexity. I hope that means the great mathematician was delighted by the direct offspring of his brainchild that he was once ashamed of.
> Partly I think nuclear triggers a cognitive bias where humans will tolerate ongoing low-level shittiness, but really struggle with large catastrophes, even if the catastrophe is far less damaging than the ongoing low-level damage.

Much like how low level corruption can be absolutely devastating to a democracy over time versus a high profile scandal or two which can be dealt with with urgency and clearer solutions.
I'm curious about one thing: I keep hearing weird stories about small police forces and ultra-militarised police forces in the US for example, like tiny towns having surplus tanks and assault rifles.

Why/how are the cartels not just "put down" immediately with some assistance? Is there something deeper, like people being born into it or politicians much rather having drug money than a living population? I don't understand why there even needs to be any form of civil war, unless the cartels have embedded themselves deep enough to be similar to guerilla warfare-esque with innocent actors.
A thread discussing that event:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24323412
The US Survey foot is defined as 1200/3937 and the international survey foot is exactly 0.3048 meters. When taking data into applications such as Autodesk Civil 3D, you need to transpose Lat/Long GIS data into a flat Cartesian coordinate system. For example, X,Y values in California start in X=6,000,000 Y=2,000,000 which starts eating up floating point precision. Because 1200/3937 doesn't divide cleanly, you'll end up with varying values depending on where you cut off your precision. That's why Highly Composite Numbers are critical.
Aren't wind and solar farms a much safer and cheaper source of energy these days?
Lol, now that the democrats are on board it’s okay. Such a joke. I wonder who donated a couple million to the dems. We should have been pushing nuclear decades ago.
Shit like this is why cars need to be functional without cellular / wifi access, and updates impossible without the user pressing a button, along with direct connection to the the car for features like summon.

Which is pretty much the opposite like Tesla operates.
It is ridiculous, but I can't help but think of cars.

I had a car a couple years back, where I had to get behind the side panel of the trunk to get to something (tail light?). The (ford) trunk panel was not held on by a screw, but y a weird fastener that had to be pried out (and I felt like I was breaking it). When it was out, the fastener looked like a christmas tree, and went into a hole easily in one direction and the design really didn't support coming out very well.

Turns out all cars are designed this way. They are "designed for assembly". Pretty much everything in the world is that way or moving that direction.

I think the computer equivalent is package managers and app upgrades and os upgrades and modular data.

But it's different. "designed for assembly" for cars becomes "designed for re-install" and the more troubling "designed for one-way upgrade"
I don't know, but it makes me think of how armored truck drivers aren't (as far as I know) paid in proportion to the money they're responsible for.
Depends how often it happens. If I had to move all the furniture out of my house to fix the dimmer every five years then it still wouldn't be a huge deal. Anecdotally, I've been using MacBooks for six years and never had to reinstall the OS.
But then “offering more money to sociopaths” doesn’t seem like the right thing to do, because it will only encourage more of them into the market.
This is silly. Yes, there is a difference of degree and nature between A and B here. Are you saying that there is no similar gap between the banks and regular people in terms of their power to create money? Because that's patently nonsense.

And I mean, the vast majority of money in circulation does not come from the money printer or even the central bank's own ability to duplicate money, it comes from the multiplicative recirculation by banks.

The banks have been both legally empowered and de facto relied on to do this money creation on behalf of the government in ways that other people and organizations are not allowed to do.

Just witness the largely successful regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency services, or the fact that "point exchange systems" like Xbox live points to to great lengths to insist that their points are not recoverable into dollars to avoid regulations as actual evidence that banks are not accidental money creators but an empowered subsystem of the process of making money exist.
TripleByte is hiring remote engineers
> Also, Tesla owners will supposedly soon get two-factor authentication for their Tesla account.

This was the biggest line in the story, for me. You can spend $100k+ on a vehicle and you can’t even have security to protect it that was standard FIVE YEARS AGO.

Lack of 2FA is a showstopper for services an order of magnitude less expensive than a vehicle. Tesla simply must not care about security very much, a fact reflected in their low bug bounty prices.
> There is the possibility to track devices from the manufacturer via serial numbers etc. Regulation will help here. This isn't useful until after the fact for evidence gathering.

From where I'm, sitting, I can see one drone which can readily be "tracked via the manufacturer" (A DJI Spark). There are two more which came assembled - from random AliExpress (or maybe GearBest) vendors, which have nothing resembling a serial number nor any way to "phone home" to the manufacturer. There are another 5-6 which were completely assembled from parts (some of which I 3D printed myself) and which run open source software on ubiquitously available flight controllers. (And probably enough parts to assemble another 3 or 3 at least).

Most of those can be set up to fly completely autonomously, where jamming of the control channels and/or video link won't affect the completion of the flight plan. (Jamming GPS would fuck them all up though, but I might have enough parts on hand to make a machine vision and lidar and IMU capable SLAM platform, that'd be able to fly a mission plan even in the absence of a good GPS lock...)

(I'd be fascinated to know how your company's system fares against a reasonably creative "white hat" amateur drone builder who's intentionally set out to beat it...)
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The worst case scenario from fossil fuels is not failure at a coal power plant. Even mining coal is more dangerous, and deaths directly from coal pollution dwarf mining accidents. But the worst case scenario is climate change that strongly affects hundreds of millions to billions of lives. Depending on location, it would take many "unmitigated core meltdowns" at nuclear power plants to have a similar effect.
That appears to be your own private definition of the term. There are lots of things in the top500 list that are just a pile of Xeon boxes with Ethernet.
I’ll bet a few QA engineers would like to be paid based on how much a bug they reported would have cost the company if released into production.
I really enjoyed the movie, great performances by Hopkins and Thompson. I started reading "the Unconsoled", but stopped after feeling a strong sense of dread about the description of characters not having talked to their father for many years. I steer clear of his work for now my own mental health. His work contains a strong sombre element, it's beautiful but it's not for me.
Yes, but kinetic countermeasures scale really badly. The definition of "drone" is also quite flexible here, a couple guys with shotguns, falcons, or your own anti-drones work fine against a few slow drones, badly against a few dozen slow flying drones, not at all against a few hundred slow flying drones, are essentially useless against one jet-powered drone (microjet engines are very cheap!) don't have a hope against a dozen fast flying drones, and are non-existent to a few hundred fast flying drones.

You'd pay around 2500$ for a 60lbf jet engine, and around 3000$ tops for the rest of the drone. That's around 5500-6000$, so for a hundred drones you'd pay 600 000$, or about 60% of the cost to train one soldier, and around one 0.8 millionths of the yearly US defence expenditure. For 100 drones. That means with the US defence budget you could make 120 000 000 such drones.

Sure, against the current crop of electric consumer drones, it's not much of an issue. But there's the tech to make a 500km/h drone that's fully autonomous and encased in a Faraday cage for less than 10 000$ a piece. That scares the crap out of me.
Nerve agents can kill you even with a gas mask. They absorb right through your skin.
What would be the legality of sharing the hack publicly and allowing someone else to exploit it while shorting the stock?

I also wonder when something becomes a "hack". Some systems are so insecure you can almost accidentally exploit them. In this case the API just required an ID for access. How would someone know if that was by design, or a mistake?
Just make and use your own libraries in your own private repos that can't be switched out easily. Then just revoke access as needed.
I liked the following blog post where Jack Lindamood argues pretty convincingly against using Context.Value in nearly all circumstances, and gives some nice alternatives.

https://medium.com/@cep21/how-to-correctly-use-context-conte...
The headlining quote on the site seems a bit silly. Does anyone consider their Mac trackpad to be "clunky"?
From what I can tell, Android can't by default and iOS can but I think its disabled by default.
It was front page of the NY Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/17/us/at-t-pinpoints-cause-o...

"Company executives said the malfuction occurred in a program at a giant computer switching station in the New York metropolitan area, causing the computer to send out alarm messages to other switching stations."

Interesting to see MCI taking the opportunity to talk about backup providers.
Not implying anything about equivalence.
Your biases are showing. Issues in private businesses drives regulation all the time around the world.
Fun world to live in
Maybe being required to use it is a compromise the people get in exchange for having free will at work. 2050's labor rights!
Use fixed point?
That is, obviously, a homophobic “game”; I suspect it is newer than the ball game of the same name, and probably the result of homophobes applying the name of the ballgame.

That article claims the homophobic, ball-free game was new in 1981, the ball game seems to be well established in 1969: https://www.postandcourier.com/free-times/archives/smear-the....

I don't see any reason to believe that “queer” in the ballgame has any connection to homosexuality.
> So seemingly the level of the bounty was reasonable enough that it worked as intended, and a much higher bounty would have been a waste of money for Tesla.

I think it's more likely that the person who reported the vulnerability would have done the right thing regardless of any bounty.
User loses 1400 BTC to malicious Electrum node
Yes. And the article mentions this rather early. But continues to dive. Why was a furlong 660 feet? Why did parliament care in 1592?
There are countries that routinely chop peoples heads off in a form of due process that we would not recognize or respect for seemingly minor actions. Even the most developed nations have laws to chop off the hands of thieves.

We vilify and drone people with the same belief systems merely because they are not associated with an existing state, non-state combatants.

There is simply no distinction I can lean on that would lead me to avoid formalizing reality. The concept of the state simply isn't legitimacy to me, it is just consensus. Cartels already have that consensus and act like public enterprises in their region.

Do notice, I’m not arguing for anything to occur, I am recognizing that nobody has to ask permission to achieve access to the capital markets and noticing how that fits types of organizations that are not welcomed in established capital markets.
This article from 1998 is about a guy who set up a facility on Barbados where coders from around the world could work (offshore) for his US clients.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/19980101/852.html

I'm shadowbanned, so if anyone who sees it cares to post the link, please do.
So how do vulnerabilities like this happen these days? I just work in games and everyone still knows having an API that takes a user ID (in this case the VIN) is asking to get abused. Is the description just a gross oversimplification of the hack or was Tesla security really that bad?
Uh, you mean 25.4mm as the standard inch? Or that times 12 as the standard foot?
If you think the specials at a restaurant are just designed to clean out the back of the walk-in, you shouldn't be eating anything there. By all means, though, order off the menu. Letting the server pick is a good play if you're optimistic about the restaurant.