skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solana uses a custom Rust re-implementation of a custom C re-implementation of the Linux BPF VM for what appears to be licensing reasons. Notably, it's jitting all bytecode without a verifier or emitting runtime bounds checks[0]. I suspect you can pop a shell on every single computer on their testnet somewhere between "trivially" and "extremely trivially".

They appear to be running some kind of "open security test"[1] but are only paying out their own imaginary funny money. I'd suggest you run for the hills as fast as you can instead of considering Solana.

0: https://github.com/solana-labs/rbpf/blob/f7007d6ae8728e61401...
1: https://forums.solana.com/t/tour-de-sol-stage-1-details/317
Yup - I love this feature but I'd guess based on people I've shown it to that no more than 20% of users are aware of it.
Yeah, it's tough when that happens. But that is kind of how things go: part of the d20 system's charm is that it successfully approximates the absurd range and randomness inherent in ordinary life.

Sometimes you get a company that gets offended at the prospect of negotiation - that's a 1, although if you get an offer rescinded like that it's probably good for you in the long run.

Sometimes you throw out a ridiculous number for whatever reason and the other side says, "mmmm...yeah, okay." That's a 20. But it's not exactly uncommon to gain or lose 5+ figures because of a random person's random whims at a random time.

It can be hard to reconcile that with the notion of a meritocratic society, but cognitive dissonance is the spice of life.
Giving up Canadian citizenship does not make sense. There are no tax obligations, no military service, in a nutshell no harm in keeping citizenship. And if he is Canadian, I would argue it is dishonest of him to not mention it in a post about his healthcare plan.
The PDF linked from the post clarifies the rule for PA: "Wearing a t-shirt or button supporting a candidate, campaign, or political party (except voters in the act of voting)"

(Other jurisdictions may have other rules, of course)
I do not. What do you mean by native notifications? Steam has always had their own notifications, and those work for me as far as I can tell.
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Working in an office should be taxed to mitigate the environmental cost of such a high carbon lifestyle. Why would we tax people for avoiding paying the carbon taxes associated with the office lifestyle?
That looks interesting, but ideally it would be something that works with multiple processes. Imagine opening a command prompt, launching vscode from it and doing a yarn/npm/nuget/pip install; this craps thousands of files for various "caches" and unconfigurable "install roots" and so on.
I think a light-weight Docker for Windows would be great for this actually, but even a simple solution that builds on top of container.dll (or similar technology) to virtualize the file system would be very welcome.
> instead of watching free content on youtube

or in addition to
Have you considered adding a page selector at the top of comments when there are multiple pages as a feature of the site? Then you wouldn't have to post this on the articles with enough comments to necessitate this comment.

I didn't explain that well, but this doesn't seem like something someone should have to do manually.
The real problem is here:

> It uses D-Bus to ask accounts-daemon how many users there are, but since accounts-daemon is unresponsive, the D-Bus method call fails due to a timeout. (In my testing, the timeout took around 20 seconds.) Due to the timeout error, the code does not set the value of priv->have_existing_user_accounts. Unfortunately, the default value of priv->have_existing_user_accounts is false, not true, so now gdm3 thinks that there are zero user accounts and it launches gnome-initial-setup.

I am sick and tired of programs trying to continue onward somehow after encountering "impossible" error conditions or tripping over arbitrary timeouts. Failing fast when something looks funny is essential to the creation of a secure system. When you write something like the gdm3 code above --- which, when it runs into trouble, clears any ambient error and pretends that the system has no current users --- you may think you're doing the user a favor by continuing to operate, but what you're doing is in fact willfully entering some unknowable and unexplored region of the system's state space, usually one full of dragons and anthrax.

What you want to do instead is just die when something goes wrong. gdm3 should respond to a failure to contact org.freedesktop.Accounts with either a hard lockup or a forced restart of the gdm3 daemon.
Alternatively: how AI is helping you find the things you want.
How the heck would I go about installing my own root cert into my TV? My fridge? (I'm picking devices here that could actually run browsers.)

How the heck would I have my DNS be public, if I don't have a domain? Getting one means a cost (some amount for the registration, plus whatever you consider costs to avoid your information in the registry getting leaked)

For large corporations, yes it totally makes sense to have your infrastructure be using proper domains and things. For your neighbor's network behind his router… not so much. Nothing that requires TLS does.
Go improves on Java in several ways, perhaps most importantly, it is much nicer to deploy - no JVM. It's also a lot less verbose, compiles way faster and uses composition instead of inheritance. Having said that, I really hate Java, and only mildly dislike Go.
How on Earth would that help? Maybe printing money, taxing the unearthly wealth of the largest corporations that currently pay $0 or negative taxes (e.g. Amazon, Netflix, many others), and giving a federal job guarantee or some mix thereof would be better?

Adding a tax on specific behaviors will just cause these $0 paying corporations to shuffle various activities around to come out paying $0 or less.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-in... ($162 million tax bill after 2 years of $0)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/02/13/netflix-tax-law/
I'd also be very interested to see if that $250 difference between the 7-core & 8-core GPU is really just a software toggle. It sounds like they've built 1 SOC, not two, so I don't know how they came up with that.
Opinion: the 'perfect solution' is to keep up with upstream and avoid backporting. It takes more work, but it reduces the separation between distro and upstream.
> humanity took a break from innovating significantly

A lot of advances in SV in the last decade, many of which were derided until recently, have helped us survive the pandemic - video communication (Zoom/Skype/Meet), entertainment (Netflix/HBOMax/Prime), grocery and food delivery (Instacart/PrimeNow/DoorDash/GrubHub), online shopping, Cloud and remote work tools (Office365/AWS/G-Suite and tons of Cloud/SaaS startups) etc.

I am thankful for that innovation!
No I an saying, if people or companies give away stuff for (almost) free and other people take that, the entities which gave that away are in no way entitled to get more compensation afterwards. I think it is so obvious that it might be confusing.

If you make bad business decisions it is your decision. Because the only way to do price finding is to make an offer and have customers accept it. If the price is low more customers accept it. This doesnt mean at a higher price they would have done the same. So selling with a low (or free) price does not give you any moral rights later to say it was too low, give me more.
> The whole system looks reasonable except for how easy it can be for poll workers to know what you voted for.

I was struck when the article said they were asking party affiliation before voting.

>> The voter approaches their table, and gives their name and party affiliation. The party affiliation is used as a signal that something fishy might be going on if the ratio of R to D is very different from the votes recorded.

Wtf? You can vote in secret but you gotta tell us who you voted with?
I would say that after 1M times of heads in a row, the probability of getting a head is very close to 1 because there is a 0.9999999999999% chance that this coin is not fair and will always come head.
I understand that mathematically the probability is 1/2. But in real life, there is a higher chance that the coin is biased somehow
> His goal in publishing this information seems to be to foster a community of transparency. To that end, his actions appear entirely consistent.

I think his goal was to help people. The goal of many people in HN comments is to ‘be right’. It’s a cultural thing. What we prioritize, how the community started etc.

I think HN has ‘trying to be helpful’ forces in the long run. There are ideas, content, links to new information that are helpful. But it’s not the priority compared to what many people think is decent. If you look at other online communities that’ll be pretty self-evident.

But again I think the key to HN is it has no direct interest in being helpful. Only as secondary effects. There’s nothing wrong with that - just as there’s nothing wrong with an incubator with a certain philosophy or writing essays that you think are insightful. In the long run, they help. But they don’t prioritize human decency or kindness and there are a lot of false negatives (startups missed in YC, entitlement and biases in some essays, dismissal of what isn’t clearly the right comment, etc).

It’s a cruder world that way. Take for example the culture of ‘X, Y, and Z read drafts of this’ that everyone has emulated. I used to admire that. Team building and acknowledgments! But it’s also encourages a culture of not being open and trying out new ideas. Living in fear of new ideas that will be rejected etc.

And that is something Josh had the balls to reject. There’s no hiding behind his Harvard / MIT connections. There’s just honesty and transparency. HN and YC people could learn a lot from that bravery.
You do realize GOP observers were thrown out in PA, and they put up bristol board so media observers couldn't see into the counting area right? They also violated orders by Justice Alito to keep mail in votes separate and votes by incoming date separate.

Their State courts also rules to extend the voting deadline for mail-in, which goes against their own laws and may end up going against the constitution.

PA has not been confirmed on some media sites; and been switched back to grey. It will likely make it to the Supreme Cort.

Please stop spreading misinformation. There is a lot of credible voter irregularities. Due process violations occurred in PA and NV (observers not allowed access) and in Detroit (observers were told to go home when 120k votes came in at 4am .. and then those votes changed to 12k).

There are a lot of questionable aspects to this election and they all need to be investigated. Please at least realize that investigation needs to happen. If there are no issues, investigations should not be a big deal. So far every state in question has been actively hindering transparency.

This could turn into one of the most disputed elections of our time and the media is trying to dismiss all the irregularities. This is incredibly dangerous, as we could potentially see riots that would make May look like a Canadian hockey game after party.
> I don't know why that is the case, and I would like to hear if anyone has an answer.

Cancel culture and SJW mobs.
What are the White Walkers and wights but another nation with a different economic system and political agenda?
> I've seen people talk about girls on OF making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and while I'm sure some are, I wish people would understand how few are actually making that amount.

I think this is the same result of people who look at Twitch and think they can be the next Ninja or Shroud. Yes, there are people on Twitch that make many thousands of dollars a month. The odds of becoming one of those people is vanishingly low for someone starting out fresh, and it takes many years to build up to that point. These are people who spend 8+ hours in front of a camera interacting with a live audience, 6-7 days a week, not to mention all of the things that happen in the background. Joe Shmoe in his house, streaming a couple hours a night when he gets off work, is likely not going to make it.
Why It’s a Big Deal If the First Covid Vaccine Is ‘Genetic’
Basically. What are you going to do? Not release your app on apple devices? No, you will do whatever it takes to work it out yourself.
"The Great Council of Venice was a large legislative body made up of a relatively small number of noble families"

So in Venice's case, it wasn't so much randomly selecting representatives from all its citizens as it was selecting from already wealthy and influential persons, on the assumption that they were somewhat competent if they could amass and manage their existing power.
Re: no open source alternative to kdb

I built this for Morgan Stanley (the same place where kdb originally came from) and put it to use in some major high-volume/low-latency trading systems where a significant fraction of US equity trades execute every day:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes/
Sortition is a great way to make everybody in the country feel like they have absolutely no stake in or influence over the federal government, since the odds of any one person being chosen are infinitesimal --- lower than those of being struck by lightning.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I will look into Code for America
Which implies, given the sudden rushed combination of “I’m bad at management” and “please no diligence” and “let’s go fast, 6 weeks”, that he’s lying about some or all of the story. The buyer won’t say anything, the seller won’t say anything, this blog posts remains as the record whether it’s 100% true or 75% true.

Let’s take a specific example. General Catalysts 2001 fund is projected to generate a 11.9% annual return per the public disclosure from Calpers. (1, sort for the name). That same fund is shown as a 7.1% net IRR by the state of New Jersey. (2)

The PR is soooo good, per some of the comments in this thread, General Catalyst is totally fine eating a bottom quartile return in a risky asset class (VC), which if you believed was their general behavior would prevent them from fundraising (therefore existing) going forward? Please.

Maybe the fact pattern is as stated, but it seems fishy at best.

https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/asset-classes/pr...

https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/doinvest/pdf/AlternativeInv...
Tax the rich not the workers. While I realize the article says it will be paid by employers, that will be turned on us.
their own thing. OK, got it.
It seems like the difference here is that in the Boeing incidents the flight computer was Bonin, inputting the grossly wrong control[1] based on a tragically flawed model of the current angle of attack. Among all Airbus pilots, there are probably only a small number of Bonins. On the Boeing 737-MAX, every plane has a Bonin.

[1] Not just the wrong command, but of a magnitude that greatly exacerbated the situation, based on an unwarranted level of certitude.
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This is how I feel. I need to deploy applications not rewrite Django/Rails/Spring/etc (and all the associating tooling) for the hundredth time.

The performance boost argument is a joke when we have horizontal scaling and and multithreading.
Good advertising might also be making people buy things.. and word of mouth, and having a good previous experience with the product. So what? Ah, I see, it's easier to blame it on the instrument than the handler this time.

Let's blame the beneficiary instead, it's their purse and final decision. If we're worried about the environment, we should totally tax or outlaw bad practices, but do this at the appropriate level, not in software.
Will MSFT fix their earning statement then? :-P
I think this is an immune response by capital. If people don’t need multiple spaces for living, that has a big impact on the people who own property and land. Shifting to things like drone delivery, etc, which I think is a great idea, would be an imposition to edified capital interests. I am pessimistic that our system has the will or momentum to shift toward what individual laborers and human groups need, but it is heartening to see that the fight itself is becoming so overt.
in Zen 1 and Zen 2, cores have direct or indirect access to the shared L3 cache in the same CCX. In the cross-CCX case the neighboring CCX cache can be accessed over the in-package interconnect without going through system DRAM.
Perhaps you are thinking that I was suggesting that you could simply run Parallels directly under Rosetta 2. I was not.

I will elaborate in a bit more detail:

Parallels could potentially leverage Rosetta 2 (or another emulator, such as Qemu) to emulate x86 code, not to virtualize it, to enable the execution of x86 VM images on ARM.

VMware is perhaps an even better candidate, considering that VMware originally used x86-to-x86 binary translation to support virtualization without VT-x hardware support. Note that Rosetta 2 supports dynamically generated x86 code, such as JIT code generated by JavaScript runtimes in web browsers. I believe execution of x86 plugin code also works.

Note also that Qemu can already boot both native and non-native VM images via emulation - I've used it frequently. It's much slower than virtualization, but it's extremely useful.
Americans are more worried about their sons than their daughters
Exactly! We didn't see any issues in any non-contested areas. We're seeing serious problems in Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Las Vegas.

But we didn't see any issues at all in Miami, or Cleveland, or Iowa City, or Cincinnati, or Dallas, or Nashville, or Houston. All of the other states and cities were able to get their ballots counted.

The irregularities in these key cities is highly suspected, especially after one State senate race was already overturned in a manual recount, where they discovered 6,000 votes were cast to the wrong presidential party due to 'bugs' in the voting machine software .. and that software is used in 40+ counties. All of those votes are going to need to be manually counted now.

As more work is done and the recounts being, I predict the differences between the hand and machine counts is going to be a significant indicator of election interference.

This is on its way to be the most contested election in history.
The problem with this technique is that it takes most representatives several years to learn the mechanics of governing effectively - how to laws without unintentional loopholes, what the other relevant laws are, details of particular fields of interest (eg, space policy).

The legislature has to have these details if it’s going to do anything at all. If the representatives don’t have that knowledge they’ll get it from somewhere else. That usually means lobbyists, since they’re (representing) the experts in the field.
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This article feels a few years too late. Of course, AI is in every aspect of advertising and content recommendations to "help" you make more targeted choices. I speak as a former insider who spent many year building advanced systems for increasing conversions.

What's worth talking about in 2020 though is:

- What is the differential power that companies with advanced AI hold over other smaller players like mom and pop stores or smaller retailers? Is AI sophistication the new "income inequality" since smaller companies that can't wield that power get out-competed by larger players, leading to extreme concentration in the hands of few as time goes on?

- Compared to 2000-2010, what is the net increase in 2010-2020 for consumerism for someone making the same salary given online + AI influencing buying behavior? How does that fare for 2020-2030 and is that a sustainable path for the planet?

- How is AI influencing our buying habits and consumerism in general? Are we buying new type of things we'd never have considered before? Does it change who we are as people?

- Why are we not using AI to weed out bad reviews just like we do for email spam? Is the lack of AI in the right places equally harmful in making us buy more? Does Amazon really not have the resources to score reviews given how obviously fake top reviews tend to be for almost every non-brand item you look up on amazon?
Is Bull Market Around the Corner Following Bitcoin Halving in 2020?
From the article:

"But I felt compelled to provide an English version of Jack Ma’s speech on October 24 at the Bund Finance Summit in Shanghai, because mainstream media coverage of the speech and the subsequent cancellation of Ant Group’s IPO has been lacking and simplistic."

And you linked to a mainstream media piece that is lacking and simplistic.
i work at faang and cannot confirm, sadly. 1 4k or 2 1080p
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In general I like the idea of random sampling an an efficient means of democratic process. The trouble is that democracy is better at deliberating than promulgating laws.
I think a better approach would be to have elected representatives craft legislation in congressional committees, and then allow randomly selected citizen committees (a la jury duty) to vote and deliberate on behalf of their district.
IIRC at WWDC Apple demonstrated Parallels on ARM running an ARM Linux VM.
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Both are Orthodox Christian countries, whereas Poland is strongly Roman Catholic. Ergo Poland has always been more connected politically and culturally to the West / the Roman Church, whereas Bulgaria and Ukraine have been more connected to Russia.
Apple has been at it for 12 years (they bought PA Semi in 2008). The talent they brought onboard with PA Semi had been producing processors since 2003.

Experience counts, but Apple is pretty old-hat at this by now as well.
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> I don't think hn is more broken than America or the Internet or whatever.

But HN wants to be different, with its quirky rules like not being allowed to downvote posts and replies, or needing a certain amount of karma to be able to downvote comments, and the time limits on edits etc., instead of just following the basic Reddit model.

So clearly someone at HN thought that a simple free-for-all system wasn't good enough, prone to abuse, and decided to make some changes, but HN isn't good enough either; it's still too easy for 3-4 downvoters to prevent thousands of people from seeing a comment they don't want to be seen.

It's too easy to suppress a side or view with fewer supporters here.

One thing HN should have borrowed is how some subreddits don't show a post/comment's score until N hours have passed.

If votes don't affect a comment's visibility for a while then everybody may have a chance to be heard. For more severe violations like spam or harassment, there's always the Flag button.