skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, it seems like the terminal state of this is a gigantic freeloader problem where everyone wants the network to be secure but nobody is incentivized to do it.

It'll be in the interest of exchanges and payment processors to prevent double-spend at least, and they have an incentive for the blockchain to be trustworthy vs. running their own attacks and could adjust their own fees to maintain >51% control of miners across the lot of them.

There's also a fallback recovery mechanism; for any attacker willing to invest $X in a 51% attack the remaining users only have to invest an additional $X*.04 to regain 51% control and make a hard fork that most miners would switch to. My guess is that faced with evidence of a double-spend most miners would switch to the hard fork to avoid losing the block rewards the attacker's chain stole from them. This relies on rapid detection of the attack and availability of a hard-fork client.
Look, we're profitable after firing half our workforce!!!
Some comments on Faust and SOUL:

- you can compile Faust code to SOUL, and export it (as the .soul and .soulpatch files) from the Faust Web IDE https://faustide.grame.fr/ (or https://fausteditor.grame.fr for a simpler version)

- lower-level tools like "faust2soul" are part of the Faust distribution: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust and https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/tree/master-dev/architec...

- using Faust/SOUL on Bela and having SOUL as the intermediate language to JIT compile Faust code is certainly possible, but not the easiest way ! Bela developer Giulio experimented a more direct Faust JIT support on Bela (since Faust can directly generate LLVM IR code and JIT it) here: https://github.com/giuliomoro/bela-faust-jit, but this projet is a bit frozen by lack of time to improve it. Feel free to bring it to life again.
If the paper was signed with that key, then the signature must be FIPS compliant to be legally significant, but the paper is not signed.
TBH, code (even when all you can do is just looking at it and understanding how it works) is probably the most useful thing to the reviewers themselves.

Imagine the equivalent for reviewing an experimental paper, if you were given a free instant travel to the place where they did the experiment and you could look at their setup and tinker with it and see how it works. I guarantee you a lot of reviewers would go for that.
Does this allow for having a fido2 pin on the yubikey and entering it at boot time?
Welcome back, J/Direct!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/Direct
Yes, and we’re already seeing exactly what happens with bigger blocks from Ethereum. The entire thing is being run on Consensys’s centralized Infura servers on AWS. It’s not even decentralized.

This is an unavoidable physical constraint given Bitcoin’s architecture. You can either prioritize decentralization (and with it, censorship resistance), or you can prioritize TPS or in Ethereum’s case heavy-weigh smart contracts (at the cost of decentralization).
But you can’t do that (or try/except) in an expression such as a list comprehension or similar.
Author (of the RAM article) here:

Indeed, you can go further, but got to plan for other bandwidth needed by other peripherals, data movement and inter-CPU bandwidth (NUMA) and intra-CPU-core bandwidth limitations too (AMD's infinity fabric is point to point between chiplets, but intel has some ring-bus architecture for moving bits between CPU cores).

I got my Lenovo ThinkStation P620 workstation (with AMD Zen-2 ThreadRipper Pro WX, 8-memory channels like EPYC) to scan 10 x PCIe 4.0 SSDs at 66 GB/s (I had to move SSD cards around so they'd use separate PCIe root complexes to avoid a PCIe <-> CPU data transfer bottleneck. And even with doing I/O through 3 PCIe root complexes (out of 4 connected to that CPU), I seem to be hitting some inter-CPU-core bandwidth limitation. The throughput differs depending on which specific CPU cores happen to run the processes doing I/Os against different SSDs.

Planning to publish some blog entries about these I/O tests but a teaser tweet is here (11M IOPS with a single-socket ThreadRipper workstation - it's not even a NUMA server! :-)

https://twitter.com/TanelPoder/status/1352329243070504964
"The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software" ... For a company that's now the 2nd large domain name registrar, started and sold a successful MVNO, and runs a fiber internet service it's been a crazy ride. I had no idea the download site was still up. That and Sourceforge were so important at one point.
Yes, the first edition of The Princess Bride had red text for Goldman's "editorial" comments. I don't know if there have been editions since which maintained that convention?
What makes it qualify as a scientific paper?

It has only 8 references, less than papers published around the same time

It was self-published, not subject to peer review

It has no proofs

It has errors: https://gist.github.com/harding/dabea3d83c695e6b937bf090eddf...
The market likes these kind of news.

When someone points to a rising stock market as possible evidence of a strong economy, just keep in mind that the market likes it when a company fires a ton of employees.
This is genius.

Data encoded in base1024 (here using the 1024 safe chars represented by emojis) gives much more efficient storage usage.

16 kB raw data encoded in base64

ceil(16*1024/3)*4 = 21848 bytes long ~= 21.8kB.

16 kB raw data encoded in base1024

ceil(16*1024/9)*10 = 18210 bytes long ~= 18.21kB.

So base64 needs about 19.7% more data storage than base1024 and both can be used anywhere utf8 is supported.

Let the baseEmoji revolution begin...
I'm surprised that you're surprised.
I'm not sure why the onus is on the business here, rather than the individual: when deciding to be a "contractor" vs. "employee," I should & do take those risks and decisions into account, and weigh the trade-offs.

You want 401k match and other nice benefits? Then become a full-time employee somewhere. You like more flexibility and independence, given the trade-offs? Then go with independent contracting.
What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit
> Now Chrome has removed FTP support completely.

You can just as effectively have HTTP sites that are simple listings of available software. I don't think FTP removal is really relevant here except for nostalgia.
Agreed. I really dislike avatar-only interaction. Tried it recently with a Quest and it's hard to read who you're talking with, or recognize a face you've met in person.

Combining video of the face mapped onto a virtual space really seems like the winning combo - there are a few groups doing this and it's the only thing I want to nudge my professional contacts to try out.
Does it work with a VR headset?
It can burst to millions of IOPS, but you get killed on the sustained write workload. Even a high end enterprise NVMe drive will be limited to around 60k IOPs once you exceed its write cache.
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/issues/143#issuecomm...

> we could support this in future, but it is not an immediate goal. If this is something that folks would like to do, feel free to chime in on this issue and let us know.

Note that most of Microsoft regards Linux mainly as a server OS. You are not supposed to use it on the desktop, instead you should use Windows there.
Sure. So this library exposes all of Microsoft’s DLL surface area in an API-native way. That’s important.

Now that it’s released, library authors can wrap this with another library, which abstracts over win32, reexposing it in safe rust. Wrapper libraries like that almost certainly won’t cover 100% of the api surface area - there are so many functions in the windows APIs.

Anyway, give it time. People will wrap this with safe rust.
Tetanus
National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf]
It doesn't have to be issued by a government.

Whatever institution performed the vaccination could do it.

Of course, if you want it to be forge proof, there are some non trivial issues.
I understand. And my argument is that nonzero isn't a good enough lower bound to justify investing in something like that. Oxygen is produced by even very simple organisms, and thus has been present in our atmosphere in significant concentrations for billions of years, currently makes up 20+ percent, and its residence time is 4,500 years [1]. On the other hand, many CFC concentrations are measured in parts per trillion, and have a residence time measured in years or decades [2], and have only existed at all for a century or so at most. Even if every single living thing on this earth died tomorrow, oxygen would be detectible long, long after many pollutants were gone. And chances are, if anything were to survive the kind of disaster that would wipe out humanity, it would be something like the single-celled organisms that excrete oxygen. I'm prepared to believe that you're correct, but you have to present some more compelling evidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_cycle#Capacities_and_fl...

[2] https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html
One intended use-case for the from_text()/to_text() functions is when information is manually copied from some place and pasted somewhere else, where you are worried the user might make a mistake and select the wrong piece of text.

For instance, if you instruct the user to copy "this text string" and paste it somewhere, some users might copy the text string with the double-quotes and some without them.
By instead emoji encode the string, the receiver of the copied emoji string can detect if not all emojis were copied.
The Agile Development of a Novel
> platform-specific commands into a single, consistent interface

Consistent interface that only works on one platform and uses all the platform specific commands imaginable to do things that have no reason to be platform specific. And it doesn't even play well with other parts of that same platform.
Naval Architecture is a degree at quite a few schools around the world. A lot of people seem to learn on the job though under apprenticeship like relationships.
This is noted in the lawsuit: the CSAM reporting functionality isn't available in app, but requires navigating to a separate webpage.

The lawsuit claims that shows negligence on the part of Twitter for how they handle these reports, but I wonder if this shows Twitter takes it seriously: brigading and mass reporting happens constantly on the internet, so pushing that reporting functionality off the application increases the friction of false reporting something especially sensitive.
AzureFunBytes Episode 26 – Linux, Go, and scaling on Azure with as_w
The post doesn't specify requirements or application level targets for performance. They show a couple of good latency improvements but don't describe the business or technical impact. The closest we get is this.

> If this database isn’t performing well enough, it can cause API errors and timeouts for our subscribers.

What are the SLO's? How was this being met (or not) before vs after the hardware upgrade? There's a lot of additional context that could have been added in this post. It's not a bad post but instead it simply reduces down to this new hardware is faster than our old hardware.
Hmm.. I don't get a captcha for archive.is. (Just tried on FF and Chrome)

Do you have any wonky extensions?
Funkwhale is incredible. I comment every time it's posted here because it's truly one of my favorite technologies out there. I ran a personal pod for around a year, and lately I've been thinking of running one for my home.

The project is also looking for maintainers, as the lead developer might not be able to contribute for much longer. If you have the inclination to do so, definitely reach out to them :)
The main barrier I imagine is access to capital.
I still have my copy of Walnut Creek's FreeBSD 2.2.3 distribution, a double CD set with Beastie on the front. And we had the internet back then, it was just over a 28.8 modem.
I wish “removing features” wasn’t such a popular thing for software companies. I mean I understand the cost of having complexity but is it REALLY that bad to just keep an unmaintained feature going that people use?
> After 10 years you'll need to spend hundreds on hard drives just to get started.

Do you think that 10 years from now, a 15 TB hard drive will cost at least $200?
This is a pointless ad hominem that is completely irrelevant to this case. The court can easily verify whether the victim was a minor.
Corporatism as a political ideal, and the sense of “corporate power” relevant to it, is a concept much older than fascism (and broader; most historical supporters of corporatism weren't anything like fascists) and not related to corporations except that the words descend from the latin word for body.
New World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph
I think Intel SIMD (AVX-512) is still best-of-class for vector math. Run Length Encoded algorithms in column stores like SAP HANA are currently the key use-case (revenue/market wise). What I've learned since the release of Apple M1 is that ISA extensions for Matrix math, as incorporated in Apple's AMX, complement the Vector-centric SIMD ISA and are probably a key battle front for ML/DL. A good Vector/Matrix SIMD-like ISA should cover many ML/DL use cases currently addressed using a discreet accelerator like Apple's Neural Engine and Nvidia GPUs.

Amazon's Graviton ARM Neoverse CPUs only implement ARM NEON SIMD rather than the newer SVE2. I don't know if ARM SVE2 has Matrix math instructions like AMX does. Intel AVX++ might be an important alternative to discreet ML/DL accelerators. DL Training accelerators appear to be focused on RDMA Over Converged Ethernet [1] (RoCE) and I'm assuming that this technology is new enough for Intel to gain a foothold.

I don't know if I understand this space well enough but I think there are enough truths in this explanations to keep me from ruling out Intel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet
So does this generator need access to the .winmd files at build time to be able to generate the bindings? Are they available for non-Windows builders?
Hasn't WinGet superceded Choco of late?
Most people do - but don't hesitate to put more value in your labour and look for other career opportunities. The world is pretty unjust at a basic level and if you're waiting for someone to acknowledge your excellence and land a big payday in your lap you'll be waiting for a long time.

A big piece of career advice I have for any folks that feel like they're in dead-ends or are just getting started is that, in modern society, you should be constantly expending time and energy to ensure you're in the most personally rewarding position - the world is a cruel place where the socially awkward and introverted have a constant uphill battle to not be exploited.

Oh and we're all super lucky to be in tech because in a lot of other fields there is just no way to advance yourself.
see my comment above for: archive.is link
Tucows and, the more Mac focused, Version Tracker, where a huge part of the early Web.

Besides finding new stuff (which was awesome), in those days you had to manually check in those sites to see if there were new versions of your apps. I'd be very surprised if you told me back then that we're all OK with apps calling home to check for updates regularly.
Option<T> would sensibly solve the nullability?
Good, I know "I may not" but where is it then? This is no joke, I'm very serious, my pointy-haired boss is mad and said he needs the packets today /s
And do what, shoot both x86 feet they're standing on? If they wanted to optimize technical/engineering success, it's absolutely the best move. But to optimize shareholder value or anything like it, it's impossible.
Because they don’t give you that flexibility. They require a high number of working hours to stay in the system, and require you to work peak hours anyways.

No one really gains as a contractor working 39 hours a week without benefits.
There are a lot of other precious metals than gold, some with heavy use by industry.

And even if industry doesn't use a lot of gold, it has its merits; you can store it, it's persistent, and you can use it as a means of payment.

Bitcoins are virtual, a promise with no government guarantee; you can't put your hands on them; they're too complicated for most people to handle, and if there's no electricity or computer networks available, there's little you can do with them.
What about GNU? It seems like most Windows-ₗusing devs use WSL2’s Linux VM. What advantages does that have over keeping the MS OS’s forced updates, BSODs, etc. in a VM, while keeping a free OS stably settled on bare metal?

I can imagine drivers, but if you stick to only Dell Developer Edition, Lenovo Linux-certified, Purism Librem, System76, or similar (still significantly wider selection than Apple s̶h̶e̶e̶p̶ fans seem satisfied with) hardware, things should work more smoothly than with Windows (drivers are built into the kernel and update with the OS).
One of the early success stories in Toronto based internet companies (besides ISPs).

Hover is pretty good. It looks like their fiber business is growing too.
ExRx is much more extensive, it covers nutrition, pharmacology, etc.
This issue resolves itself. Miners will refuse to uptake transactions into blocks that pay insufficient fees. There's no need to arbitrarily force $80+ transaction fees.

As a review for anyone reading, miners are compensated via the block reward - a direct grant of Bitcoin to the miner - as well as transaction fees for any transactions they decide to include in their block. (The person who mines the block gets to unilaterally decide which transactions go in the block; functionally this means they just sort in descending order of $/kb and include as many as they can)
It is a problem in Microsoft Windows.

My work laptop connects to a shared drive on a VPN which I may or may not be connected to: either way it could take a long time to find the drive or decide it won't find it. In that case Windows Explorer or Eclipse or some other application could be hung for 30 seconds or so.

I see the beachball a lot on the Mac too; user interfaces go a lot smoother if you NEVER let a GUI update block on on a filesystem access.
Reddit AMA: Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB
This is the idea of have of unions. NYC MTA is all union workers and when I hear stories (from a relative that works) of the kinds of things people get away with before being fired along with their ridiculous compensation, I can't easily shake my opinion of unions.
What is the danger of a single person walking by themselves, sans dog, outside at night?

It seems like half the government reactions to lock down is a good idea based on the understanding of virus transmission, and the other half is just security theater. Does this hurt the government's own efforts? Any reasonable person will understand that they aren't hurting anyone by walking outside near no one. Or two people from the same household walking their dog at night near no one. This may make people generally less likely to follow all the rules, because they see that half the rules are just made up nonsense.
Under what rules is Twitter required to turn a reasonable profit? (What is a "reasonable" profit?)
I'm finding it really odd how you are still insisting so vehemently that it's a horrible misfeature, and yet you haven't described what you consider the proper way to represent immovable parts of the schedule, and have barely even acknowledged the need for such a thing. Please, tone down the ranting and try to explain this stuff in a useful way.

> There are ample ways to model constrained tasks in a critical path that do not involve a feature that is, [...]

Can you finish that paragraph in an informative manner?

This is Microsoft that we're talking about, so I don't doubt that they could put in a feature that is as horribly misguided as you claim; I've encountered a few myself. But you've really just been repeating your original assertion without justifying it, and that's unhelpful. Getting haughty about it is even less helpful.
> It's not bad leadership to hold down the costs of your key inputs.

I think your point misses a crucial distinction.

The issue isn't whether or not "holding down the costs of your key inputs" is good or bad, all other things being equal. Rather, the issue was that Jobs formed an illegal cartel to accomplish that goal.
Interestingly enough, this is why Simultaneous multithreading [1] exists!

The revelation that "The CPU could be doing useful work while stalled waiting on a load" has lead to CPU designers "faking" the number of cores available to the OS to allow the CPU to do more useful work while different "threads" are paused waiting on memory to come back with the data they need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading
Or even in 10 years.
Feels like this question is difficult to answer in the moment? I was single for a long time and I enjoyed being single then I decided I didn't want to be alone and it was quite easy to find someone given how hard life usually is. I would say I've been successful but what if we don't get married? Or if we do what if we grow to resent each other decades down the line? I think given that I've been true and authentic in all my love affairs and been happy so far, that I have been successful but I need to work hard to make sure it stays that way.
The whole point of the sharecropper economy is to make it so a lot of people don't really have much choice.
Out of curiosity, are you using Cloudflare DNS? It seems to be a conscious decision on the part of archive.is

A previous discussion can be found here[0] with the statement by archive.is here[1]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

1: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
That is not only false in this case, but also in general. As another refutation, consider A Warning, by Anonymous, subsequently revealed to be Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor.
Screen readers rely on some kind of toolkit a.p.i.?

I would assume they would simply read the screen. Are they thus not capable of, for instance, reading a picture?

They should not be called “screen readers” but “text to speech” if they not actually read the screen on a bitmap level.
Upvoted for a thoughtful response, but I want to be clear that I'm not saying the Fermi paradox is valid or even useful. What I'm saying is that the author of the original article argued that the paradox assumes humans are fascinating to other species, when it makes no such assumption. There may be many reasons to dismiss the Fermi paraxox, but the one he leans on the most heavily is a non sequitor.
Because, given the opportunity and no regulation, companies will always push to make all employees contractors. Independent contractors represent a significantly lower liability on the balance sheets. Except that those lower liabilities are just externalizing the cost of employment to other systems (health and unemployment insurance, etc). If we don't regulate corporations, they will just race to the bottom in how they treat labor.
They've been hosting downloads since 1993. That's more than two decades, and certainly a couple of lifetimes ago for me :)
I register my domains through hover.com to support Tucows. It happens to be an excellent registrar.
Sounds like you just compared them.

Also sounds like the differences are in degree, not in kind.
Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president
gets huge server. does not properly resize the jpeg on the page (it’s 5megs in size and i see it loading). we don’t al have 5TB of ram you know
- Milton Jones

- James Acaster
The really awesome part about Dawn (and musicality) was how open she was to the beat and the sound. One of my favorite videos is of her dancing to Bhangra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsTIp2KDfc
> In any case: it should be blatantly obvious that the Twitter representative did not know or agree that the person in the video was a minor.

The lawsuit alleges precisely that Twitter had ample evidence to know that he was a minor. How about we let the case play out instead of assuming innocence?