skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reality "star wars" was a moniker applied to several different programs which were part of the Strategic Defense Initiative geared towards missile defense. Part of the Strategic Defense Initiative was the ISTO, which funded basic research at national labs, which included some promising but ultimately impractical technologies - as is typical of basic research. Tech like isomer lasers and particle weapons made headlines, while missile guidance systems and radar systems and other such technologies which were much more seriously pursued didn't. Many of the technologies developed by the SDI remain at the core of modern missile defense systems. In fact, when one looks at the history in context, SDI only started getting wound down when the soviet union stopped being a threat and thus there was no longer a need to stop a large scale nuclear missile strike; while programs got renamed and were refocused on stopping different threats, the work never really stopped. So it would be inaccurate to describe the program as either a deliberate or accidental boondoggle.

That being said, ever since the very beginning of missile defense, it was always understood that the system would never be a permanently impenetrable shield. At best it might take a few years for adversaries to develop a new weapon to get through, but most likely a system would only be able to deal with a portion of targets. But the purpose of missile defense is not to raise the costs for the adversary - if now they have to launch 3 missiles to guarantee a hit where before they needed 1, you've essentially tripled their costs, not including the development of any new technology which could also be considerable. The fact is the Soviet Union did spend a substantial amount on developing technologies to defeat Star Wars, and even today China and Russia are spending significant resources developing technologies like hypersonic missiles to deal with the successor programs. So while the implication that the US purposely pursued technologies it knew would never work to trick the Soviet Union into following suit is not true, the US was trying to hurt its adversaries economically.
Sure, but the big difference in my mind is that they both started in mass market segment and then eventually added separate luxury brands to their portfolio.

Tesla started pretty high end and are trying to move down into the mass market.
Yep. It is quite good for some data that volunteers can provide from open data. Things like runway numbers, surface material and length.
Which is why it's all the more important to fight against it.

Change your point a bit.

People are fine with giving up Freedom because they were never really Free in the first place.

Circular reasoning is sucha seductive fallacy because it'll fit any use case like a glove.
A) Use already clean money in one address to buy a token on uniswap (or any AMM)

B) Use your laundered dirty money in other addresses to pump the token on uniswap (or any AMM)

C) Sell the token from address in A) back into the Uniswap liquidity pool at a massive profit, enjoy the profits and reintegrated money. You look like any trader.

D) Bag hold the token in the address from B) and never think about it again and never worry about trying to cash that out. In addition that address can add to the liquidity pool and provide a service to all other traders indefinitely.

E) Laugh at people that are still imagining how difficult it is to launder money on public ledgers. Blockchain detectives on their wild goose chase looking at the wrong addresses.

Do this all over time, and not immediately pumping a token with the laundered money.

Sure, I’ll probably get more scrutiny after writing this but you won’t. I really hate chilled speech and people having dumb ideas because the should-be-obvious reality is never talked about. The point is that the trader behavior is indistinguishable from others, and there are no financial intermediaries on permissionless AMMs to flag anything.
I've declared Android is malware then:
The whole point of an OS is to run code for the user but Google has turned it into an additive adware delivery platform.
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It’s still a phone actually and colloquially even if I use the Phone App infrequently.

The point isn’t what you call it. OP’s point was and I agree that you don’t need to have full control over every device that can possibly run code. Just let it be a device that does its thing.

It’s the difference in people that want calm technology vs “power users”. I want the device to exist waiting on my input and even though I have deep knowledge of its internal systems and processes, I don’t care, I just want it to work, solve a problem for me, and I’ll put it away.

Go ahead and root your phone to do whatever actively complex thing you need... it’s a tool for me and I personally want the walled garden to prevent it from possibly not working when I need it.
C'mon, wouldn't you be angry if your granddad were in the hospital on oxygen, and everyone around you, rather than acknowledging the gravity of your situation, was instead busy making whatever self-serving noises Buzzfeed told them to? This is a total failure of empathy, it completely underestimates peoples' ability to see right through you, and it's othering.

There are lessons here:

1. You should worry about the truth or falsehood of a belief rather than the assumed political consequences of that belief.

2. You should engage with people not to demonstrate to them that you hold "good beliefs" -- this is a persistent mistake made by white liberals; they think what they profess to believe is something that matters -- but rather to work together towards shared goals.

And, at the beginning of a global pandemic, there should have been a hell of a lot of shared goals.
For the last 4-5 weeks we have been using Poppins digest for our SuS weekly updates. All we have to do is to go and copy the items from Poppins into our SuS update and wohoo... It just works!

Earlier we used to spend around 10 minutes just to fill the content.
Deprecated in favor of Redis Flash (behind an enterprise subscription)
Well, clearly if you have a very long and strict lockdown, you would have a low death count. If you optimize for that then nothing beats a lockdown. But everything has a tradeoff. If we optimized for low death counts then we would've banned cars long time ago. But instead we allow cars but try to prevent accidents as much as we can. And just to be clear, I'm not against short lockdowns when really needed.
Interesting. I'd be curious to read your thoughts on mitigating risk with general aviation. Is there a checklist somewhere of "always do these 20 things" or do you have to comb the NTSB accident records yourself?
Yeah qml is awesome, so I wouldn't mind seeing a rusty qml version.
Just FYI, because you specifically said UK not England - not all of UK works like this. In Scotland you sign a legally binding contract to buy the property at step 1. You can only get out of it if the house is found to be in poorer condition than advertised through inspections and solicitor work. So if you are trying to sell a house, sign a contract with someone at step 1, then someone offers you better money between 2 and 3 - tough luck, it's really hard to get out of it, you pretty much have to sell at the price you agreed to.
Plenty of English spelling simply doesn't make sense, "thought" is a good example of that. I'm ambivalent on vigilante spelling reforms, will have to think about it more. :-D
Any time there is an article about Google just cutting someone off for no reason, I like to bring this up:

20 years ago my AdSense account was frozen for click fraud -- my appeal is still pending. Ironically the website it was on was shut down 19 years ago.
I love this idea. I would absolutely use it.
1000 miles in a day is normal in the Midwest. Not common, but many people out here do such a thing on vacation. Flying a family that far is more expensive and uses most of a day so you may as well drive and have a way to get around once there.
> exposing all information accessed and sent, including passwords, to a third-party company

They're marketing it to people whose _Google Chrome_ is running too slow. That's already being exposed to Google.
> Continuing to develop this tech could make it useful for setting up buildings in hostile environments.

To add to this: If you've ever been to these embedments after the fact, they can leave behind a lot of waste/trash. Namely, concrete (pads, walls, etc). Much of which cannot be easily re-used and breaking it down is expensive/hard.

You use 80% locally sourced materials, if the base just gets left, and starts to breaks down, all you wind up with is mostly original dirt from the area instead of toxic concrete dust.

PS - Although Hesco barrier[0] has also made very positive inroads here, replacing concrete with mostly local dirt, chicken wire, and fabric. But it cannot be used for dwellings, only perimeter wall.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
> This is especially painful to do in intrinsics

Depends on use case, but yes, can be complicated due to lack of support in hardware. I’ve heard AVX512 fixed that to an extent, but I don’t have experience with that tech.

> perhaps via something like Eigen

I do, but sometimes I can outperform it substantially. It’s optimized for large vectors. In some cases, intrinsics can be faster, and in my line of work I encounter a lot of these cases. Very small matrices like 3x3 and 4x4 fit completely in registers. Larger square matrices of size like 8 or 24, and tall matrices with small fixed count of columns, don’t fit there but a complete row does, saving a lot of RAM latency when dealing with them.

> to avoid all of the ugliness of manual use of intrinsics

I don’t believe they are ugly; I think they just have a steep learning curve.

> I suspect it would be a more pleasant experience than intrinsics for a reduction operation of that sort over 32-bit datatypes

Here’s an example how to compute FP32 dot product with intrinsics: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59495197/126995 I have doubts the ISPC’s reduction gonna result in similar code. Even clang’s automatic vectorizer (which I have a high opinion of) is not doing that kind of stuff with multiple independent accumulators.
I made Make.rs as a place where makers show the world what they've made.

It's a different kind of profile page where it's not about the companies you worked for but what you've done.

It's also a place where you discover other makers like you. Get feedback or let others know what you think about their work.

It's where you get inspired and motivated.

It's where you learn and grow.

Thanks for checking and I'd love to hear your feedback!
Even worse: Developers will get an M-series Mac, write Electron apps that performs okay. They will then ship them as cross platform app, that will absolutely suck on any other platform.
Firefox isn't banned, Gecko and SpiderMonkey are. For a few reasons, Apple doesn't want Blink/V8 demolishing users' batteries, and they have the excuse that allowing 3rd party browser engines is a security risk.
Even better! (I merely stated two treatments I knew of which were found to be effective well after the point when we were making ventilator-related decisions. I am doubtless unaware of many more.)
Can confirm that mechanical wristwatches have experienced the same. Some MSRP $20k watches can resell for over $100k currently. Pokemon cards, watches, comics, video games, NFTs, houses, yachts, all are very hard to buy right now, even for the wealthy (because of bidding wars and limited supply). Lots of money sloshing around.
How convenient for Google.
I keep hearing this and it's totally wrong. Desktop Linux has a huge app ecosystem and arguably has more high quality software than Android does. All of this works on the pinephone and other similar devices.
Which bytecode platform do you expect will have mature support for these languages first?
Oh man, someone showed me this site a few years ago and I never could find it again. Glad it popped back up
I don’t understand why interest rates are zero and we are still paying able-bodied people not to work. But hey - I work in tech startups, so keep the ridiculous easy money flowing so all the rich can get richer shrug
This is an irrational party(professor) trick that wastes everyone's time.

An argument could be made for "read the (short) instructions at the start". An argument cannot be made for this. There is often very little value to skimming the entire question set before the exam.
For telegram you can just use the package from rpmfusion.
I do use flatpak for proprietary software like Discord, Zoom, etc.
> Basically you should be able to modify an existing unikernel implementation to make it real time.

It's very very difficult to hack in real time properties after the fact. Most successful versions of this end up hacking in a virtualization layer to run the code that wasn't designed to be real time in the first place rather than trying to make that code play nice cooperatively with a real time system.

RTLinux is a good example which uses Linux to bootstrap a microkernel which then virtualizes the Linux kernel that booted it.
Ah, ok. I didn’t realize such places still existed. Around here, dishwashers are virtually ubiquitous. It’s actually more common for people to not have washing machines for clothes than to not have a dishwasher. People without their own washing machine can go to a laundromat, for example, or to a community–owned washing machine in their apartment complex. Even people who own washing machines will go to a laundromat for some things, like washing quilts or blankets, which require a larger machine.

Meanwhile there are no equivalent places where you can take your dirty dishes to wash.
Quotas are against federal law.
I know a guy that went to Rutgers for CS. He turned out alright.

But seriously, it's a very underrated school
"My employer tracks my biometrics as a condition of my compensation sounds like dystopian scifi. Welcome to the future?
Good. Apple, and Google for that matter, have been running wild with what can only be called "tariffs".

They take an insane cut from what could be considered shelf space. The argument has always been that filtering, monitoring, and curating these stores justify the price, but we have learnt that these so called filters are letting in all sorts of malware.

Then, they want to take a cut from recurrent payments, which would be acceptable if we were talking of a small percentage (many credit institutions already do that), but keeping another 30% is insane.

Apple has gone further, and not even links to other payment systems but theirs, are allowed.

And on top of making the whole experience of buying digital content from apps miserable, they preinstall competing apps on their devices, which have no such limitations.
The app store should absolutely not be held liable for people's losses. If someone secretly plants uranium in your bag, should you be sent to prison as a terrorist? No! It's not you fault, it's the fault of the person that planted it on you obviously. It's not easy to catch scams in applications. It's usually incredibly difficult bordering on impossible.
I totally agree - Plaid seems like a good existing but insecure "API" that most people probably don't care that they're giving their login info to.
Outch, they have done this sort of thing since quite a while now. A good friend of mine had a very big website (among top 200 Alexa raiting in ~2010) with adrevenue around 10k per month. Google just terminated the website without supplying additional much helpful information. Just an automatic generated email saying: you are done....
(that page was https://kriyayoga.com, which since has been closed down and made available for free download, only the tomb-site remains)
I am a big fan of https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl . It is unexpected how useful these tools can be to track the evolution of numerical experiments/developments right on the terminal.
Very impressive that Sydney managed to do so well without a strict lockdown in the second wave like happened in Victoria.
You can open the app drawer with Super + A right ?
sed "s/should/will not/"
When loitering, I've found that phones are a strong signal that distinguishes those uninterested in engaging with the strangers around them, from those that are. When trying to convey one's innocuousness to the wardens of a domain, it can be helpful to use your phone.

Related, if in a group, everybody else disengages to be engrossed in their phone, it can be helpful to do the same if one does not want to demonstrate a vulnerable dependency on the generosity of their attention.

A lot of awkwardness comes down to self-perception of vulnerability.
its "priced in"
+ Mac OS checking every binary you run over the internet.
The metal shell of the 6-pin socket has a seam where it's closed, and that can open or loosen with use. That makes it easy (enough) to plug in a connector the wrong way.

Trivia: Pretty sure the 6-pin FireWire connector was inspired by the GameBoy link cable connector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Link_Cable
Another thing to keep in mind is that non-alcoholic drinks as a sector are growing rapidly. We might see a sea change here within a generation, like we saw with smoking, where it simply isn’t cool anymore.

For anyone interested, I followed Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol. It was a totally painless process for me
Is this for multi platform ? Linux , Mac, Windows?
Is this rate of inflation computed anywhere? I'm curious what the actual figure is and how income has been diluted over the course of ongoing events.
Apple forecast a 2 year transition a year ago at WWDC. That means they need a processor for their base laptop/ consumer desktops. One for their high end laptops and many of their pro desktops. And arguably one to replace the Xeon in the iMac Pro and Mac Pro.

Unless they are going to use this same CPU for the Mac Pro, this is right on schedule.
no, literally: you can add any repository you want, even with proprietary code.
Here's one possible recipe for fixing this issue:

- Ban anonymous cryptocurrencies.

- In pseudonymous cryptos, mark any address that has been the destination of a ransomware payment or demand as tainted. Any net positive transaction from a tainted source wallet marks the destination wallet as tainted. (I.e. you are obligated to return tainted monies to tainted wallets if they send money to you.)

- Exchanges are forbidden to deal with tainted wallets, or with any exchange that deals with tainted wallets.

While you're at it, I guess you could mark any wallet funded at an exchange that doesn't KYC as tainted as well, to limit the use of crypto for money laundering.

I'm guessing we're going to figure a lot of this stuff out in the next 10-20 years, if the crypto craze doesn't die off naturally during that timeframe.
Sometimes it seem like "nothing" is used today. People just start writing code. This actually isn't a bad way to go 70% of the time. But if you find yourself struggling it might be time to step back and think it out with some informal UML sketches. Nobody uses "formal" UML anymore.

The main risk of UML is it can lead to overly complex designs - it is so easy to add another box and arrow, to make it match a GOF pattern, etc.

As for what we use here in practice today - pairing and talking out ideas sometimes with informal UML sketch, and test driven development.
> The Architect-Programmer model was also meant for offshoring.

I don't think this is true. The Architect-Programmer model precedes offshoring by decades, even if it was repurposed to facilitate offshoring.

It was the dominant model during the "Corporate IT" phase of the software industry (before the web/Internet took over), and was famously satirized in the classic movie Office Space and also in the Dilbert comics.

It has older roots in traditional corporate structures that strongly delineate "corporate" vs everyone else. The word "corporate" in office culture even used to mean "distant, out of touch bosses in luxury offices", and still kind of means that in industries with similarly stratified workforces.
It's certainly a possibility, and I've not sat down with a spreadsheet to optimize my risk profiles.

I like riding motorcycles, so I try to do it in as safe a way as reasonably possible. Right now, given that I'm typically on ill-handling sidecar rigs, that involves gear and no longer riding two wheels frequently.

I like small planes. Again, I try to find safer ways to do it.

But I recognize that these are still riskier activities, and I do them because I enjoy them, entirely aware of the risks involved.

"Trying to do the research to be able to quantify my risks and mitigations in a spreadsheet" doesn't sound terribly enjoyable to me, so I've no intensions of doing it.
Dropbox upload speed: Windows TCP stack and network reordering
Here is a great example of how Dropbox and Microsoft engineering collaboration lead to the great outcome: boosting upload speed for both Dropbox and Windows Server.
Typoing "thought leader" as a way to poke fun at them was deliberate, typoing it in a way that's also slang for a prostitute was completely unintentional and something I wouldn't have done if I knew. Changed it to something else for that reason.
On one hand,

Good! Planet is overpopulated relative to how much we damage the planet. Current population growth rates are not sustainable long term without massive technological improvements, and it's not worth the risk to assume that those improvements will happen.

On the other hand,

Uh oh! This is happening for all the wrong reasons. It's not enlightened decision making. It's just too damn expensive(both time and monetary cost) to have kids.
I just bought a small amount of crypto on Coinbase to toe the waters (think double-digits worth). Still, if I wanted optimal security, what would I do to keep my crypto safe?
So where is the other code? Who owns the computers? Is it deployed anywhere?

I'm having trouble understanding what could motivate someone to behave so bizarrely. Has she lost the code, but doesn't want to admit that it's just barely running in prod?
Let me add some perspective here. This only became apparent to me fairly recently and it blows my mind. It's something I hadn't thought of before.

Black holes are relatively "simple". I mean that you can completely define a black hole with 3 properties, one of which isn't really relevant.

The two most relevant properties are spin and mass. The last is electric charge. The reason this is somewhat irrelevant is because electric repulsion is about 60 orders of magnitude more than gravitational attraction so it's not expected black holes have a significant charge.

Neutron stars OTOH are arguably the most complex objects in the Universe. Why? Because you're dealing with gravity, electric charges, nuclear forces and QCD such that there's no equation of state for describing dense nuclear matter.

Probably my favourite variant of neutron stars is the extremely rare magnetar [1], the most powerful we've found has a magnetic field 100 trillion times that of Earth's [2]. This field is so strong it would flatten atoms and rip electrons from your body.

So as much difficulty as we have of describing the nucleus of an atom (as referenced in this post), imagine a whole star of that stuff.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar#:~:text=A%20magnetar%....

[2]: https://www.space.com/magnetar-eruptions-sculptor-galaxy#:~:....
Is AOSP bad for privacy as well? I've been migrating all my services and devices away from Google (I've owned nothing but pixels and nexus phones for a long time) but I was hoping flashing to lineage would work rather than buying a new phone.
There is a way to do that: don't run untrusted code outside the browser.
"5-star" rating attack on Electrum Bitcoin wallet Android app
Do you drink a lot of coffee or other caffeinated drinks, especially later in the day? I used to think caffeine didn't have much affect on my sleep, until I cut it out. Old habits die hard, but I just drink decaf coffee now and am getting better sleep then I can remember.