skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO proprietary modules have never been kosher. They rely on a particular legal interpretation of the GPL that assumes that...

1. "Programs" (as defined by the GPL) can be legally separate works and share the same address space (on a platform where this arrangement is highly unusual)

2. Separate GPL Programs hosted in the same address space can share linked symbols determined to not be "internal APIs" (in a world where the Supreme Court might run roughshod over this and just say all API implementation is copyright-infringing)

3. "Operating system kernel" and "GPU driver for that self-same kernel" can be considered, regardless of address space colocation, to be separate GPL Programs.

This interpretation is highly unusual but holds primarily because Linus Torvalds and every other major kernel contributor endorsed it. Whether or not this constitutes promissory estoppel, implied license, or something else is up to Nvidia legal to decide; but it's highly likely that nobody with standing to challenge what would otherwise be an obvious GPL license violation is actually in a position to do so. Hence, Nvidia has access to a market they shouldn't.
If you can compromise the tool that people use to change their certificate stores, then you can sneak in your own root certificates.
Current guidance is that non custodial protocols are not classified as money transmitters and so are exempt from KYC/AML regulations: https://www.coincenter.org/fincens-new-cryptocurrency-guidan...
The way I saw it I probably saw way more than $8/month in ads per month on Twitter before I quit Twitter for Mastodon (especially when you count brands getting retweeted everywhere for essentially free marketing on their part), and as an "ad removal" fee, Masto.host or someone else is still a good idea to own your own social media with basically no brands trying for "engagement" and definitely no ads or "Promoted Posts".

It's not that the stuff I post is worth that much a month to spin it out into the network, but that it has been worth it to have so much control over what I receive from the network, including no ads and no "brands".
These are all exact reasons I have never used Signal.

Additionally I find concerning the choice to bet the farm on SGX which has been repeatedly broken with repeated opportunities to extract the keys, at which point cracking small numeric pins is trivial.

Moxie simply promised they always patch right away and never take the keys when they have such opportunities to do so.

I do believe him, today, but I don't believe he is above being threatened or coerced tomorrow or that he won't get replaced by someone that cooperates better with state powers as happened with VK and countless others.

I also took issue with Signal having central network metadata chokepoints his DCs or ISP could do timing heuristics on even if he does not.

I tried to engage with Moxie about these issues but he dismissed each as things we will mostly have to accept because he feels it is not possible to create and rapidly improve a privacy focused communication tool for the masses that isn't produced and controlled by a single large company.

Moxie is brilliant, and his contributions to cryptography and bringing education on privacy and end to end encryption to millions can't be overstated.

The problem is Moxie and Signal are struggling to engineer best efforts under an assumption they treat like a law of nature: No end to end end encrypted messaging platform can succeed without complete centralization.

I operate under a different assumption: No centralized platform will ever escape censorship and control by the government it operates under.

Moxie has said before he is happy to be proven wrong.

I hope as Matrix and others continue to prove him wrong with his own cryptography research that he comes around and rejoins the fight for a decentralized internet with irrevocable privacy.
>There is a lot of money in sailing

Not the Olympic sailing...Oracle stuff yes...but do you really need doping for sailing? It's more about tactics not ultra high-end body-strength..i sailed Lasers for 4 years and it is demanding, but nothing against Street-cycling/CrossCountry
So what is your definition of a program? It sounds like you're using a definition that's so broad, it would include image files, MP3s, and .gitignore.
The C64 has no equivalent to the Apple II system monitor, which allows you to examine, change, and disassemble memory interactively, and includes a mini-assembler as well. It provides a very natural pathway to understanding the inner workings of the computer.

The C64 also has no equivalent to the seven expansion slots of the Apple II, which allow you to customize your computer (by installing a CP/M card to run Wordstar and dBase II, for instance, or by adding bank-switched RAM) and to easily develop your own hardware.

The graphics and sound capabilities of the C64 are superior to those of the stock Apple II, and I think that explains why demos are still popular on it.
I didn’t say they were all equal, I said they were all biased. My only point was that criticizing the Post for publishing unverified information should mean you criticize the “real journalists” for doing the same thing. This has happened numerous times in the last four years.
the UX with puzzles on chess.com is much better. The analysis after the game is also pretty cool. It did help me become better. (I'm a super noob) I would happily use lichess but there's a lack of feedback after games there (IMO)
There are no good hands. Governments are slow to catch up but they do eventually. So they did catch up with technology and understanding that internet is freedom. Our freedom was these 25 years we had from 95', when proliferation of internet started up to today. Lockdown even more showed they need tight control over our freedom.

Unfortunately the future is splinternet, where each country has its own grip on this new media medium called internet, same as they do through regulation over TV and radio.
150 million dead trees. The problem is larger than any civil activity can encompass.
My last job received over $50B USD of government bailout funds between 2008 and 2009. There were accusations of accounting impropriety and two senior executives were prosecuted and imprisoned a year earlier. I worked in the quant/pricing/accounting group in technology and product. We also finalized figures for financial reporting for this public company. There were dozens of people pointing fingers at each other trying to shift blame on who was responsible. There were leaks to the press, leaks to authors, accusations, memos, the works.

In one case, a person found a major accounting issue where prices were faked and suddenly found himself facing sexual harassment claims from the very department that was responsible for the fake prices. In 2009 and 2010 people were desperately clinging to jobs and that meant stabbing anyone else that could be stabbed to get the spotlight away. This is mostly in Quant/IT/Ops at mid-senior'ish levels (below Managing Director.)

Every single decision was memo'd with signatures. Worse, we weren't in the group of people making millions, so if we got in trouble it wasn't as if we had millions of dollars worth of defense attorney costs saved up.

One lesson learned is that if the money is good, there are probably some shadow liabilities. I mean, $300k/yr (mind you, this is 12+yrs ago) is great, but not great enough to be worth this stress.

I took a job in tech paying the same in annual TC. There is some delivery stress, but not huge. No investigations. No financial reporting improprieties. No depositions. No memos. No execs in prison. NO MORE PSORIASIS! YAY!

Mostly stress over getting some random Linux driver working, pretty nice!
Deploying a Backstage.io App on Kubernetes
Creator of the Breaking Monero series and a compliance analyst at a cryptocurrency OTC desk here.

This mixer was penalized for running an unlicensed MSB. This is far more about that then it is about banning privacy technologies generally. For traditional Bitcoin mixers as in this case, someone receives money from users and then transmits money to many users. This is money transmission and requires registration with FinCEN and sometimes requires registration with states (though some states have exemptions for completely crypto to crypto transmission that doesn't touch USD or other fiat).

Mixing in this case is interactive where there is a clear money transmitter. In Monero's case, the ring signature "mixing" (mixing is a terrible/misleading way to refer to ring signatures) is non-interactive, and there is no intermediary (eg: a mixer) acting as a money transmitter. Thus, there is nothing to fear from this specific enforcement action.

I'm happy to answer other questions as well. But for money transmission to occur, an intermediary needs to accept customer funds. For a Monero transfer, there is no intermediary. Someone could build an MSB on Monero itself which would require registration, but using Monero to send funds directly to a merchant for one's own purchase, for example, is not money transmission.
Diffs are still pretty bad at preserving context, especially the “greedy” diff algorithm that assumes that files are identical for as long as possible instead of preserving as much context around the change as possible (if the diff is equally large. This has the familiar effect where you add a method under an existing method and they both have the same documentation header prefix line such as /, then the diff will make a mess of it and not see your added method as a single chunk of text.

Instead of a regex per file type perhaps a better diff tool could actually diff the parsed code (if possible) and produce a more sensible diff and context?
Helix shut down years ago. The tech that enables wasabi is pretty recent (segwit, etc).
Half the benefit of having open source drivers is so that the kernel team can update the drivers themselves when they change the API. I don't think there would be a lot of complaints from open source developers if Google were to change one of their APIs while submitting high quality patches to update all the open source projects that use it.
Maybe I'll join one day , seems like a great way to fight cabin fever
This is the initial report. For some of the key analyses and takeaways, you can see them all on this part of the ICIJ's website: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/
I have recently closed my chess.com account which I had since 2008. I got tired of cheaters. Actually cheaters forced me to only play 3+2 games in the hope they would not have enough time to check each move with the engine, but lately because of better and better cheating tools and higher and higher network latency, that solution stopped working. Now I can see exactly the same trend on lichess. Last year it was a rarity to meet a cheater on lichess. Now it is happening more often.
Do you know what edition of D&D you were playing? 4e was heavily focused around gridded combat and it turned many players off, as tactics and math overshadowed the role playing.

If you haven’t given 5e a try yet, do so - it’s substantially less crunchy that previous releases and frees combat from the tyranny of the grid if the group wishes to play it without.

As far as balance between combat and story, that’s all up to content. Published adventures tend to be very heavy on dungeon crawls, while many homebrew adventures lean more towards RP.
Compare 7 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20131215082444/https://www.googl...

Credit to https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/19/google-....
Angry? "Eff Off" buddy.
They should pair cheaters with cheaters.
I can’t think of any purpose of a VPN except to obfuscate your internet history. What are you trying to hide?
>I got paired with someone rated 400 points higher than me (no idea why)

If you haven't played in a while, then glicko will give you a wide ratings deviation, and pair you against much stronger or much weaker opponents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
Or just use slot machines like everyone else.
They cannot be killed easily.

They also cannot be easily open-sourced as answered below.

They were put on death roll. In the sense, that people with authority deemed them rightly deserved to be killed.

But any software that needs authority to be declared dead, certainly have a life of their own. One such case is when the practitioners see the software has great value and an inherent vitality to sustain itself, but were simply rejected by people with authority.

Did you know that Borg itself were put on death roll once, by Google's most powerful technical authority?

That history ruined my respect for many of the once-golden images. But in the end a great lesson that anything that is valuable, is also worth fighting for.

Just an example of how ridiculous an authority could become, if allowed to be unchallenged. Even in technical sphere, where is thought to be more rationale.
I replied to "basically every elite athlete is doping." That's definitely BS. So, you agree with me then?

My friend was in the finals in Beijing and in London, top-6. In London half a second from a medal. Yes doping would help immensely but those guys have too much honor to do this. No, there is no money behind. He gets sponsoring in form of a boat which is sponsored by the manufacturer. The rest of his life's expenses, all travels, housing, shipping of his equipment, bring wife and kids along sometimes, mortgage on their house, all that needs to be paid for. And it was a struggle to finance all this. Friends help, family helps, and a few local companies in his hometown chip in. He is a construction engineer and his net worth is less than half mine as a mid-30 programmer.

So yes, everybody keep downvoting me and ignore that not every "elite athlete" is some overpaid basketball or soccer pro making 8-figures a year and evading taxes.
Most misinformation is not simply blatantly false. You have these small kernels of truth surrounded by false or intentionally misleading information.

As far as I can tell there is at least as much wrong with the story as there is right.
Some people have given me feedback that my writing seems biased because of strong words I use but then I can not pretend to be "unbiased" here because the amount of needless human suffering I have seen because of these asinine horrible policies.

Growing up we had no gas station in the 20Km radius. We owned a "moped" and we had to carefully plan our trips keeping that in mind. This was a not a demand supply problem because everyone and their brother owned mopeds like us. Some folks would smuggle petrol and store it in large metal barrels in their homes and then sell it at 15% profit. Occasionally they use to catch fire killing people and little children. The person would than be seen as a horrible criminal who deserved what he go for storing gas illegally.

Since a major trade highway went through our town it was actually no brainer to put a gas station in the vicinity but two people who owned gas stations on the same highway would go to great lengths to stop any new license for being issued, it reached to a level where they even murdered would be gas station owners. Eventually an even bigger goon managed to setup a gas station solving a lot of these problems but the gas continued to remain expensive as government taxed it around 100%.

Energy is the foundation of all economic activity. Part of the reason why USA is the most prosperous country on earth is because some amazing entrepreneurs like Rockfeller managed to reduce the price of gas to a fraction of what it was before them. India's abject poverty is primarily because of how tightly Indian government controls the entire energy market. From electricity to Petrol everything is not just tightly controlled but has the most perverse rent seeking policies around it.
Footings for the Giga Casting machines at Giga Berlin are being prepared
>and last your children a lifetime beyond that.

Kids move out and get their own places and their own furniture long before their parents kick the bucket. My wife's grandmother had a house of solid wood furniture. It all went into an estate sale and I'm guessing most of it ended up in the landfill. Her kids already had their own houses full of their own furniture and lived across the country.
At the high level winners can take home > $100,000, but only a few of these events happen every year. If you love chess and want to make it a job you need to win a few tournaments every year (you may have to pay travel expenses to get there).

Cheating is the difference between getting a "real job" for many, so there is a reason.
Recall Voaygers, we need to patch them with TLS1.3.
That sounds like a kind of "everybody is a criminal unless proved otherwise" argument? How about arguing, bitcoin makes simple privacy the default? You don't have to be a drug dealer, to want to keep everybody else's nose out of your business.
Now they know not to go to countries like Egypt, Jordan, or Myanmar, which might not otherwise be very clear to them.
That has happened to me more than once too. I usually take the rematch because I can often win the second game too, I’ll guess 15% of the time. Almost always the better player is trying an opening trap which is dubious but will cause me to loose in the first 10 moves if I miss it. So I just make really sure to look for tactics extra carefully in the opening. If I survive I can often win. And if I loose I get to learn a new opening trap. :)
> Biden staffers, after reviewing schedules, denied that the events described in the emails took place.

This seems to dodge the actual matter at hand. The question is whether the email conversation was fabricated or actually happened, not whether everything the participants said in the conversation was true.
It's still early, but it is all better than it ever was. No need to fire stars yet, IMO. Just get a planet or even a hosting plan on https://tlon.io/ (as soon as they open).
Would this help?
No weights, but DAG, graph view, Gantt, and malleability.
https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo
but in the end one has to be familiar with some calculus and complex numbers to make sense of this topic.

I think this is more important than the listing of terms one by one in some of the sibling comments. The intros to Calculus, Analysis, Linear Algebra you get in high school/university will get you to the right place. But if you're unfamiliar with 'function' or 'exponentiation', you're probably missing some more secondary-school-level maths background to tackle those topics. That's not a difficult gap to close but it's a necessary first step before taking the next one.
> Are there any working ad free, commercial surveillance free, video chat tools out there?

Matrix.

https://matrix.org/
A typical person eats 3 to 5 lbs of food per day, and that generally includes some very calorie rich meats, dairy, nuts and/or processed foods - not exactly the stuff you'll get in your backyard. You might be able to feed a family on an acre of beans, but not on an acre of generic greens.
Private flood insurance could certainly be profitable, given high enough premiums.

The obstacle to a functional flood insurance market are all the people who can't afford market premiums, who have complained to their politicians, demanding that the rest of society subsidize their property risk.
I learned the “it sucks all joy out” lesson as a child when I cheated my entire way through Goldeneye 64. I got to the end and felt so unfulfilled.

I discovered that you’re better off walking away from a game that feels so insurmountably difficult rather than cheat a bit or a lot.

“I’m not going to finish so why not cheat to see the ending?” Was always disappointing. I’d rather that mountain still exist off in the distance that I’ll never summit.
I'm looking forward on James Mickens commenting this.
All of the Free Unixes ship roughly the Mozilla trusted CA list yes. Historically lots of them notionally had independent programmes, but they didn't actually do the maintenance/ oversight work necessary, so it's like if they'd just shipped Linux 1.3.48 forever. 1.3.48 was a pretty good release at the time, but er, not five years later. Just auto-applying Mozilla's changes is better.

However this isn't entirely an apples-to-apple comparison. That package in Debian is for the Web PKI, CAs trusted to issue specifically for DNS names (and rarely IP addresses) for services on TLS, thus mostly the web but also IMAP, HTTP and other protocols that can use TLS. That's it, no other purposes are warranted.

Whereas Microsoft ships roots trusted for several other purposes their users care about, including code signing for both application software and drivers, and document signing (used in some jurisdictions to give legal effect to a digital signature on a document, not to be confused with electronic signatures which are just an image of a written signature) and so on.
Anytime my boss has sent me a '?' with no context, I've always responded with a '?' of my own. Context has always been forthcoming afterwards.
I am vegetarian who eats eggs + dairy products; no meat or fish. So it is bit challenging to reduce carbs - but I hear you - I agree - reducing carbs should definitely help. Thanks.
To answer the original question?

"I realize it’s hard to get over the idea that there isn’t a magic pill to “fix” you..."

Is that deliberate irony?
You don't think Uncle Bob knows there are paradigms that avoid looping? Sorry, but that is absurd. This isn't some random internet blogger. Uncle Bob has proven himself knowledgable enough to know something as basic as that, even if he is a controversial figure.

And please let me know if "the person" refers to someone else. I've read the comment chain all the way up and can only make sense of what you said if "the person" == Uncle Bob.
Not enough people do this. Using country-level block-lists dropped the number of IP/Port scans we have received down to sub 1% of totals. It may not be an elegant approach to the problem but it is VERY effective.
> hijacked by the simulation to send back whatver the devs wanted it to

Wouldn't that require the devs to simulate whatever code we put on the probe? Did you just discover an attack vector for hacking the simulation?
I agree with this completely. Whenever I open up a libreoffice document or any WYSIWYG editor I get so anxious. I like saying \cite{x} instead of seeing the citation, etc.
It could also just be done as a thinly veiled threat to discourage people from working there. Even if nobody is arrested, the statement is basically saying "it doesn't matter where you are, or how secretive your work is, we can find you". I can imagine spouses and family would suggest they start looking for a different job after seeing the announcment.
engaging in money laundering? who knows

that's the point: even if you're not doing anything shady you don't really know what sort of long term risk you're taking on if you're using something that looks to governments as if it's tailor made for money laundering
It does provide 32-bit packages for multiple Linux distros and Android. So 32 bit computers seem to be supported.
> In future releases, Git will support interoperating between repositories with different object formats by computing both a SHA-1 and SHA-256 hash of each object it writes, and storing a translation table between them.

Would it not be easier to do something like the modular crypt people and prefix the SHA-256 with something like `$5$`?
Of course they do. They want a mathematically perfect, impossible to crack system, that also happens to have a common key that works for everything, that they alone own. And by 'they', I mean their government. Not enemy governments.

What happens when (not if) that common key leaks or is abused is not their concern. Until, of course, it invariably happens, and they find their citizens having their bank accounts siphoned, their agents being discovered and blackmailed for their basic 'civilian' internet use, etc.