skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you require a proof of ID, theres not gonna be a reliable way to identify fake accounts. You'll get the same sort of algo-driven mass mistakes we now see in Youtube.
The answer is complicated.

IMHO It's clearly better than no TPM... as for whether it's better or worse than a physical chip, it's a different trade-off.

One one side you have:

- higher speed

- higher protection against physical attacks (if only because the die is larger... it's smaller and the "bus" isn't as trivial to interact with)

On the other:

- new side channels (think spectre, meltdown & friends) and they are probably easier to exploit thanks to the higher speed (more samples)

- more parties to trust (microcode, ME, ...)

- erasure is harder

For the specific purpose of hardening passphrases/keys ... use both. :p
> My game is built on top of literally millions of man hours of development. This game would basically never have happened without a ton of proprietary software.

Sure, starting from scratch will only be realistic for few projects but there is also millions of man hours worth of non-proprietary software that you can build on. If that would have been possible for you is impossible to say without knowing the specifics, but you should not jump to the conclusion that it is impossible for everyone. VR specifically is a field where this may be more difficult than elsewhere because it's new and niche so good open source solutions have not yet settled.
No Arch Linux package yet!
> aren't flaws of PDF transparent?

Ummmmm... no. Not really.

> better suited for automated processing

I write my papers for other humans. I'm dimly aware that there are a variety of "analytics" companies that are trying to elbow their way into academia. For example there is this company

https://academicanalytics.com/

of which my university is unfortunately a customer. They have some dashboard or something which purports to show my grandbosses how productive I am. I do not wish them well, and I am certainly not going to alter my workflow to accommodate them.
Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)
That "small business" is what tips this copyright violation from a simple civil matter into a criminal offence.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

506. Criminal offenses

6

(a) Criminal Infringement.—

(1) In general.—Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed—

(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
"Make money" means making profits, not revenues. That's standard English. Nobody gets points for selling $1 for $0.50, nor do they get money for engaging in "custom acquisition" after a decade. Customers can leave again. You have to make a profit at some point.
Attempts to modify gravity have not been too fruitful so far.
> Lerner received a BA in physics from Columbia University[7] and started as a graduate student in physics at the University of Maryland, but left after a year due to his dissatisfaction with the mathematical rather than experimental approach there.[8][9] He then pursued a career in popular science writing.

and

> He wrote the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened, which advocates Hannes Alfvén's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory. He is founder, president, and chief scientist of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner

he couldn't grok the Math and so he took to writing and scientific-populism.
I thought the idea was to have quotes that explicitly used the word cement, not just quotes pertaining to what keeps society together.
So its analgesics vs „environmental chemicals including phthalates and bisphenol A“?
Plausible, though they really should have worded that differently.

My takeaway: keep painkillers like Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Paracetamol away from fetuses and small children.
Java has a reputation for being difficult to work with. But I’ve come to like it for business apps. The IDE support (eg intelliJ) is insanely good. However the build system is terrible and there seems to be a lot of magic compared to the simplicity of eg Golang.

For personal projects I continue to prefer golang. For enterprise apps, I think Java still has a lot of potential.
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.sh... ?
Have you heard about Oxide Computer Company? https://oxide.computer/team/
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(Growing some CO2 removers in the space station would be a interesting idea. The 'Space nab' project. Sounds great ;-))
There has got to be a better word than Monopoly for companies like Google or YouTube. The barrier to enter the market is relatively low and there is almost no inherent lock-in to the platform. Everyone could stop using Google and YouTube today and switch to another platform. However, creators won’t because of the viewers and viewers won’t because of the creators.

People could stop using Google today but most don’t, because Google is just so much better than everyone else as searching.

Should Google/YouTube be regulated because people dislike what the company is doing, but just not enough to actually stop using their products.
The actual curvature of the earth is what mattered. We used both laser interferometers and highly precise levels as part of the install.

If you assume the vertical axis and gravity are aligned, over the distances our machines moved the deviation between the two is enough to matter when setting up the machine alignment. The measurements would only match if you accounted for the curvature of the earth.
My favourite: https://pimbook.org/ by Jeremy Kun. It's a great read!
Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for the green revolution and understood the misguidance of efficiency as a strategy better than anyone. As a tactic it works under the strategy of managing population, as he said in his acceptance speech:

> "The green revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only. . . Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the “Population Monster”. . . Since man is potentially a rational being, however, I am confident that within the next two decades he will recognize the self-destructive course he steers along the road of irresponsible population growth."

We haven't curbed population growth. It's slowing, but we're in overshoot, which leads to collapse, and most projections still show us growing through 2100.

Luckily, have examples like Mechai Viravaidya in Thailand, who helped lower their population growth from around 7 children per couple to below 2 through voluntary means -- think the opposite of China's One Child Policy -- leading to greater stability and abundance. His TEDx talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/mechai_viravaidya_how_mr_condom_ma....
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Is justification produced via works or via faith? I propose a less controversial third option: via adjustment of letter- and word-spacing.
> people indoctrinated

Marketing (and industry/capitalism behind it) created the demand which is now used as an excuse for producers to use more and more animals (which as we know creates more pollution and land/ecosystem destruction).

Even if they fix the gas emissions, there's still the manure problem. For example, in this tiny country of the Netherlands, in 2019 "the Dutch dairy farming sector produced 280.6 million kg of nitrogen excretions" [1]. That's _just_ the dairy sector, and _just_ the nitrogen component of the manure.

We can apply human ingenuity for decades to remedy symptoms, or we can instead decide that we have been moving in a fundamentally wrong direction in terms of using animals as consumable resources.

That's not to say that humans cannot get benefits from animals (such as free roaming chickens aerating and fertilizing land, goats grazing and clearing brush, etc.).
That got me thinking of an idea for a startup: let's build a service that allows people to broadcast headlines with no content (since no one reads the articles anyway), and then other people can reply to the headlines. To make sure that authors stick to the rules, we'll limit the length of each headline to 140 characters. Side benefit: users can post their headlines via a single SMS message.
Only because the platforms need to rid fake accounts to keep engagement high.

Makes you wonder, would the platforms ever be truly transparent with their product?

Example: Soylent Green.
This.

People will buy what they understand.

Who can blame them? Your real bleeding edge tech company is outnumbered by snake oil companies 1:1000.
Minor correction: if we bastards stop eating them, we can ...
We basically need to try absolutely everything and see what sticks.
0) Remote work as much as possible - redesign cities to minimize vehicle traffic. (When people go remote - you can make small communities with new layouts)
1) Electric vehicles.
2) Renewable energy as fast and far as we can go.
3) Nuclear power for baseline load.
4) Fusion power research.
5) Encourage movement away from animal based protein.
So you've got 3, the m at the start is obvious - there's only two left and they're both spelt out in the header of the webpage.
I just hope you can still simply hover your mouse over the languages links to see the translation without having to click and go to the foreign language article.
I would put category theory very far down the list of things a programmer should learn. Once a programmer has learned a lot of other things about programming, category theory can act as a good organisational and explanatory tool.
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idk but when I see the quality of the meat served at the cafeteria of my company I can clearly tell there is an issue, it's vile, I would probably not even give that to my dog.

Somehow people prefer eating the most disgusting piece of chicken/beef I've ever seen every single day of their week rather than go for the totally fine salad bar, which is cheaper and has a variety of cheese, nuts, salad, &c. or the vegetarian dish of the day
(ALWP) I mean, obviously plenty of people do love Eve Online, but the micro-mechanics shown in the video are awful. Compare to Dark Souls (again) where pretty much every combat is interesting (and has better be because you’re gonna redo it a lot until you crack it).

OTOH, I found the mechanics of the recent Spider-Man game kind of fun, but the macro game is just endless repetition. Which feels true of a lot of AAA games these days.
> The Auditors of the State of California

I didn't look at the page header, only the domain (.ca.gov) and skimmed the illustrations and was wondering why a Canadian govt body is researching an American university. I didn't know California had its own domain.
That's a click more though, while the current method doesn't necessitate a single additional click.
This is basically equivalent to any other crackpot theory. You can’t through together a bunch of impressive sounding words and expect to get anything out of it. The one prediction I noticed that you made that “ dark matter would then be concentrated in the areas of our universe with sparse amounts of normal matter“ has already been proven to not be true. Dark matter is concentrated in galaxies.
Sure. All the free software we use today has been written on some sort of secret contract, everyone has been paid for their work.
Unfortunately, tehre is no money to fund accessibility. So we cant do anything about it.
But we still advocate free software since it is morally sooo much superior to all these evil commercial software companies.
If the solutions we advocate inherently prevent people with disabilities from joining in mondane tasks in our society, that is really a bummer for these people.

Please explain. Why was Steve Jobs able to explain to Apple that in the case of Accessibility, ROI has to be ignored, because it is a social responsibility to build a platform that works for everyone. Why, to the contrary, is the free software movement trying to argue that this is absolutely impossible because of lack of funding?
More importantly it should retroactively tell me about what I have read that is shown to be fraudulent. "On September 4th you clicked on link "Hillary Clinton runs child porn ring", this article has been fact checked as misleading and the account sharing this has been identified as a fake account operated from Russia".

If they do look for fake accounts and misinformation, its not enough to remove the misinformation they have to inform people they have been misinformed.
They may not get identify all fake accounts, but there are still tons of accounts which can be clearly identified as fake.
The OS community is almost only C and C++. If by community you mean the people working on operating systems. Or you're only considering a small subset to make your point?
He is saying it should raise an exception which can be caught somewhere up the stack.
Is it just me? I cannot remember my own home with full detail.
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I think you're both right in that the whole hero arc is breaking the stagnation of society split into play-it-safe extremes which are in themselves rather undesirable.
I would guess that Axions are currently the leading candidate.
>You can not just stick some new engines to a plane and elongate the body. This needs more investments and certification. Less costly than a new plane but still costs.

Isn't what Boeing basically did with their 737-Max ? With no new certification ?
Some of the great Twitter accounts (e.g. Titania McGrath) are utter frauds.

The ones that irritate are the Stolen Valor type, where people claim military service. The game tends to fall apart quickly, though.

The reason is that these experiences are binary. Think sysadmins: you've either done it, and can sustain a conversation about Linux or you haven't.

Fakery has a short half-life.
Not all accounts are from people, though. Some accounts claim to be newspapers or technical organisations.
It's good that it's a purely syntactic collection. Viewed semantically, the "cement of society" produces a strange image, as if a single event could, once set in a given form, hold society together forever and ever thereafter. I think society is held together by a process, not an event, so what could the "X of society" be in that case? "The covalent (primary) as well as van der Waals and hydrogen bonds (secondary) of society" makes for a rather unwieldy metaphor.

If I ever put together a Humanistpunk band, it'll be called "The Cement Trucks of Society"...

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg&t=190

(TIL feltpunk is a thing.)
It’s surprising to me that there hasn’t been a mainland Chinese company that rivals TSMC yet. Why is this?
Depends. (As everything always does.) “Carbon fiber” literally means just the black threads, in English as in any language. When you say “This bicycle / fishing rod / automobile part is made of carbon fiber”, what you _actually mean_ is that it's made from carbon fiber- reinforced polymer (=“plastic”). Stuff isn't built from _just_ the fibers; the plastic needs to be there to keep them together / they're just there to reinforce the plastic (or both).

The GP (G-G-G...P?) post seemed to be using the shorter expression, but as a shorthand for the longer (as most people do) in English but not in German, which may have caused some confusion.

But it's the same in both (all) languages: The shorter expression technically means just the reinforcing fibers; the actual material used to make stuff is technically called the longer expression; but in ordinary usage most people use the shorter expression to mean the longer one.
They interact with normal matter and themselves via the force of gravity...
You can perfectly live on eating meat once or twice a week. Especially if your job isn’t that physically demanding. You reduce meat consumption to 1/7 if you do so. If most of us did that a lot of problems would be moot.
Would that evaporation be independent of matter accretion? Wouldn't a black hole of any size be able to sustain itself depending on the availability of matter in its catchment radius?

Or would black holes of smaller size not be able to capture enough matter to sustain themselves?
Can't wait to get both of mine!
I agree. But there is a "creepy" factor that a social network knows what you click on. I suspect lots of people are unaware of that.

Would you want a librarian chastising you for the books you check out? Would that make people more or less likely to use the library?
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I don't really consider myself a 4wd-er (don't even own a car right now), but i couldn't help but pop in and mention one of my favourite spots, Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world.

Yes, every year or so a tourist group kills themselves, and yes, it's probably not an option for most of you right now with covid, but man, driving and camping on it can be an awful lot of fun.
I made a sketch of it on a napkin: https://imgur.com/UHLAdxQ
For starters:

- Bounds checking for strings and arrays

- Proper strings

- No implicit type conversions

- Unsafe code requires use of unsafe package, thus very easy to track down in code reviews

- No need for pointer arithmetic everywhere, using fat pointers instead (slices)

- For "generic" code interface{} is type safe, whereas void* can be anything

- No use-after-free thanks GC
The North Ronaldsay sheep[0] survive on a wholly seaweed diet and they are ruminants, so it is definitely possible (albeit with copper metabolism enzyme issues) for a ruminant to live on just seaweed. Also, CSIRO have been doing ag research since it's inception (over 100 years ago), so I'm sure they have tested this particular seaweed's impact on bovine digestion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ronaldsay_sheep
Built something like that 5 years ago
https://twitter.com/MindDriveCo/status/668518135880916992
Have been working ever since to address many of the issues discussed in this thread and lot more.
On the way to turning Engelbart's Conceptual Framework
https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138
for Augmenting Human Intellect into a Practical (meta) Framework. "Go Meta Young Man' and join the effort to build a Kernel for Open Collective Intellect on the Decentralized Web.
It is not a commercial venture, but wanting to contribute to Web 3 something comparable in impact to Ward Cunningham's Wiki, something that have the potential to trully change the workld as Ward Cunningham idea of the Wiki had.

Primarily
Enduring, Open, Co-evolvable, Bootstrapable, metadesignable, promoting edge-user autonomy, uneclosable collaboration and much more

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334126329_Weaving_a...
Alternatively we build out masses of storage capacity, coupled with much more aggressive load shifting (this would be disruptive to the economy, but not overwhelmingly so). We're not there yet either, but it doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem to me.
This can still be proven with some sort of document or proof-of-ownership
Second this book. I've also made a list of good resources on CPython internals: https://tenthousandmeters.com/materials/python-behind-the-sc...
If the NSA is in your threat model, you've lost the game.
My point is that proof of ID or ownership should be implemented, as that would get rid of the problem.

Edit: I need to point out that this should be optional. Anonymity should still be the default.
Please explain how rental owners are not "fungible" in an economic sense?

Does it matter to me if my landlord is a big real-estate trust or a poor put-upon "family" owner with only two or three spare houses to their name?

Sidenote: you could even argue that big corporate landlords are better for society. In my experience, they tend to be more professional, and more committed to obeying the letter of the law w/r/t to tenants' rights.
The aviation startups that are in the development phase today, e.g. Boom and Lilium, seem to my casual observation to be planning on operating the service themselves. And thereby forcing change directly, instead of trying to convince the incumbents.

This seems like the way to do it when pioneering a new technological approach in an entrenched industry with an established status quo. The incumbents must be dragged into the future by their hair.
Important clarification, thanks. But we'll see if that holds up if "deleting" becomes past tense.

This story probably got enough reach now that something will happen, as usual.
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This probably isn’t novel advice, but Khan Academy is great for learning the fundamentals.

I’m in a similar position. I’ve rebuilding my understanding of mathematics using Khan Academy and 3Blue1Brown videos. It’s going pretty well.
Which falls in the "don't have enough to meet your basic needs" category and in which case I agree.
I think this would probably be a good thing, but that it won't happen because it will reduce engagement and trust for the platform by drawing to attention how full of garbage it is - not in aggregate, lots of people know that, but in your immediate sphere, which I suspect most people like to believe is cleaner than the average.

So: good for the world, bad for the platform. Not gonna be implemented by the platform owners...
I'd love to see a recap how the American Medical Association captured the healthcare industry.

I've read the wikipedia and it's a slow process of lobbying and using crisis to strength their hold.

Anyway I say this because my child can't get Physical Therapy until we get a prescription from a Physician. Wait 2 weeks for an appointment, pay 125$ to hear what I already know.
While he does seem like tbe crackpot-type, your last point may not be fair. I don’t think you can get through a undergrad physics education without being able to handle a decent amount of math. It sounds like it was just unfortunate he couldn’t find a experimental physics group as a grad student. I am surprised about this though, while I don’t know how it was back then, UM has an amazing experimental physics program now.
They are not "required", that claim is simply false and that's why "nobody's talking about it".
Won't this approach eventually lead to what happened with blogging?

10-15 years ago we all had our own wordpress/static/ghost blogs hosted on our own domains, and then Blogger, Medium and Substack entered the space with the added benefits of discoverability and a very significant chunk of the self-hosted blogs moved to those platforms.

I feel that with YouTube we just skipped that initial self-hosted step and immediately went to the centralized platforms (Google Video, Vimeo and eventually YouTube)
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I once was interested what exactly happens when executing python code, asking myself questions like "Why can't I make a fast for loop? Where are the fast integers? Can't I write fast for loop directly in bytecode, akin to asm?"

The python bytecode interpreter mainloop can be found in ceval.c.
There is a big switch case for each python bytecode opcode starting at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/ceval.c...

One can see even the simplest operations call quite a lot of stuff.
I gave up on fast pure cpython after reading ceval.c...
I hope this story summons Dan Grec, he probably has an interesting anecdote about driving in sand from his travels around Africa (ref: theroadchoseme.com)
This is a bad comment, to learn more read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
> Would you want a librarian chastising you for the books you check out?

If what I checked out was fake? Yeah, personally I would like to be told.
Please define "efficient". Most arguments I've seen against crop rotation hinge on manual labour-type efficiency, not land yield-type efficiency.