skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's an anecdote, but can think of why women may avoid EVs. In families, the moms tend to drive the children (the old "mom's taxi" cliche). There aren't a lot EVs that can carry 2+ kids, their stuff and you can make a mess in without feeling you lost $40k of value.

Second is the charging. Gas is plentiful and easy to obtain quickly. Again, if you have kids you can't wait too long to replenish the power cell in your vehicle if you have a schedule to keep. There is also the issue of safety in recharging. I know a woman who owns an EV and she has said she avoids certain charging options because she doesn't feel safe waiting for an extended period of time. That limits the range of travel if you only depend on certain charing stations.
Pretty sure we had to do the "trusting trust" patch set as a homework assignment during my CS undergrad. It's not actually super complicated. Backdoor login.c when you see it, and backdoor GCC when you see it.

Sounds like someone took code from their homework assignment and added a few fun extra credit features to screw with their psychology professor.

I can imagine how it would be pretty confusing to stumble across if you hadn't read the paper though :-)
Really appreciate it! There are other tools, but a couple of the features that stand out are:

- onboarding simplicity to get up and running quickly. I created a 10 question onboarding form for the user, and from those responses I infer a company persona to pre-fill all the model's inputs based on SaaS industry benchmarks.

- simulations for projecting a range of revenue outcomes. These simulations incorporate a bunch of the model's inputs to produce an expected distribution of outcomes based on customer behavior. Even models that split out customers into cohorts don't capture the actual risk to the business if there's lots of churn in a month. They also don't capture the interaction between hiring plans (in reality many are based on revenue) and how those hires themselves affect revenue along the way (i.e. hiring in the sales department).
But that doesn't make any sense. The building should have to be sold first before appraising its value. Non-withstanding the difficulty of timing your own demise, I think you could at least reject the very dubious gift at least?
A cryptocoin speculator falls out of a 50th story window. As he falls past an open window on floor 30, he is heard to say "looking good so far!".
> Another perspective is that a lot of bias isn't "I don't like X people", but rather "I feel X people are disproportionately Y, and I don't like Y"

Of course. But the answer to this depends on: 1. the source of the belief that 'X people tend to be Y'. 2. The truth or otherwise of that belief. 3. The source of the dislike of Y. 4. Whether or not Y is a reasonable cause for dislike.

Suppose that I tell you that the most important political issue for me is the welfare of animals, and in particular, that animals raised for meat should be stunned before they are slaughtered. There are definitely some people for which this is a genuinely held and rationally arrived at belief, consistent with their other beliefs and actions. There are others for which this is a device for attacking certain religious communities, through opposition to halal and shechita. Isn't it correct that we should try and understand which is taking place before responding to it?

Presenting objective data to someone arguing an irrational position in bad faith does no good - the bad faith argument simply adapts.
It is supposedly fixed.

"After a successful write of a new object, or an overwrite or delete of an existing object, any subsequent read request immediately receives the latest version of the object."

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/consistency/
Article does not provide older numbers for comparison but implies that this represents an acceleration of earlier trends:

> Unlike the serendipitous sense of discovery that comes with browsing a bookstore, people tend to search by author or subject matter when they shop online, limiting the titles they see. Often, they see whatever a search or algorithm delivers, or find themselves steered toward titles that retailers push because they are already selling well. As a result, many of the new books that were released in 2020 languished, as panicked retailers focused on brand-name authors and readers gravitated toward the most popular titles.
Gee, that sounds an awful lot like a monopoly to me. Not sure why we as consumers would want that.

Not sure why as a business they would want to take away a major selling point for their actual product, which is not a free messaging service.
Fiction: Unpaired
Great point I'll definitely consider this, thanks!
I was trying to be conservative, but they also own Wayfair.
Hmm use of cryptocurrency to escape sanctions , wasn't this one of the drivers behind the creation of cryptocurrency?
I really wonder: why wrap it in Electron, instead of simply hosting the emulator as a regular webpage on one of the free hosting services?

The "hard part" of making it run in a browser engine is already done. WASM is supported across all browsers with good performance. There is absolutely no advantage of running it in Electron, and it's harder for the user to install (since Windows SmartScreen will most likely block the installation, and the macOS version is distributed as a zip file.
Generally the gift tax rate is comparable to the estate tax rate to avoid this loophole. From a quick Google search it seems the gift tax in South Korea can be up to 50%.
You're right, I got a bit strident there at the end... unresolved emotions I guess. Perhaps she isn't playing games, I suppose I am reading into the situation, but she just is overwhelmed and can't get the software or system finished fast enough. If it is obvious at this point that nothing works (you were not clear on that), then perhaps try to have a non-confrontational meeting with her with a mediator in charge.

The goal would be to get her to understand it's obvious things are not working and she needs to start co-operating, otherwise everything will then get problematic - and that no one wants this. A totally autistic engineering we-need-to-solve-the-problem-and-get-things-on-track meeting.
Binding the database to 0.0.0.0 is not a good idea.
I believe the music industry is about the same, or close.

That said, the music industry (afaik) no longer offers mega-advances, etc. How does the book industry do so? That said, if you're a sure bet (e.g., former POTUS) why not self-publish and keep more for yourself / foundation?
In Fallout one and two, the main character had the option to kill NPC child characters. The game went so far as to mark you with a specific perk "Childkiller"[1] after performing that act.

From the linked fandom wiki, quote by Tim Cain about the subject:

> This led to the child killing controversy. We said look, we're going to have kids in the game; you shoot them, it's a huge penalty to karma, you're really disliked, there are places that won't sell to you, people will shoot you on sight, and we thought people can decide what they want to do. [...] This of course contributed to our M-rating, however, Europe said "no". They wouldn't even sell the game if there were children in the game. We didn't have time to rewrite all the quests, we just deleted kids off the disc.

[1] - https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Childkiller
The paper's here, if you want to see how they came to the result. The PDF is paywalled, but you can view it in their online reader for free.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812...

Properly understanding it is well beyond me, but it looks like it's about carefully arranging the turbines with respect to each other's wakes. While this is based on modeling and not empirical experimentation, it doesn't look like they just pulled the idea out of a hat. Getting the 15% improvement seems to require that the pattern is optimally oriented with respect to the wind direction, so I'm guessing real world benefit wouldn't be anywhere near that great.
I'm very aware of that.

Convincing an entire extended family to switch app is not simple. Making sure they are all set up with an alternative messaging app is not simple. Getting them to remember to use it with your specific chat while they use the default app for other conversations is not simple. Using an iPhone is simple.
Because my coworkers set the monitor brightness insanely high and white mode hurts my eyes
Or NFTs for farts:
https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/nyc-man-sells-fart-for-85-cash...
A smart contract that paid out for each incremental fart would be a real innovation.
These big companies are well beside the market economy. The special rules should apply.
I think that these companies don't pay as much as they should because there is no pressure and that should change.
Many developers are unaware how they get fleeced and they think their well above average salaries is what everyone else is getting in that space and it is not correlated with the value they produce at all.
This is something a regulator should look into. Above certain threshold their pay should be tied to the revenue per employee figure at 15-30% mark.
Likewise. Almost all my circles (90%) are iPhone based in Australia and Singapore. All WhatsApp, Signal.
Yes I'm a CPA and was most recently director of finance at Stack Overflow. I've also done financial modeling consulting work over the years for many companies.
Maybe the reason they are cheaper is simply because they have a head start on building the supply chain and manufacturing process?
Can someone please ELI5 what is a futex? Is it like a mutex?
I don't know about where you are, but supply has caught up with demand for Zen 3 in the UK.
It was fixed in December of 2020. Announcement blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea...
FinTech in the Middle East – The Rise and Prospects in Digital Banking
I can imagine there's a difference in wake from a classic turbine blade that slices through the wind coming at it, and these vertical ones that are sort of pushed out of the way.
I feel the same way. Best to go at your own pace and relax in this calm world. Don't worry about being optimal. The subreddit for Stardew seems to like min/max playing and to each their own.
> I think Rational Ro$e used them

Yes, prior to version 4.

> He ended up throwing in with Ivar Jacobsen

Jacobson had a proven method and toolset at that time called Objectory which was superior to Rose. Unfortunately they killed the tool. It seems to be an imperative of history that mediocrity prevails better.
> a .git directory on the VPS hosting this site was exposed to the internet by a configuration mistake, providing enough information to allow an attacker to access the site's database.

I had trouble figuring out how they got from point A to point B. My best guess is that a file containing database configuration settings had been committed to the Git repo at some point.

Lessons:

- Don't commit secrets to your Git repo. Store them in config files which are listed in .gitignore. Yes, this means you have to manually copy or write config files when you set up different servers, but those servers are likely to have different database credentials and the like anyway, right? If you've found that you've committed secrets by accident but haven't pushed anywhere yet, revert your branch to before the commit and redo or cherry-pick any subsequent commits safely. If it is too late, change the credentials to access the database or whatever other secrets you've revealed.

- Don't put web-accessible files in the root level of a Git repository. Instead, have a subdirectory contain the web-accessible files, and configure your web server to serve from that. That ensures that the .git directory won't be right next to web-accessible files, and has other benefits as well - you can also easily have subdirectories for docs, CLI scripts, and other things that shouldn't be web-accessible right there in the same repo. But if that isn't an option (or even if it is), configure your web daemon to not serve files from .git, or probably any other file or directory that starts with a dot.

- Edit to add one more: As much as possible, lock down access to your database server. An attacker having your database credentials is bad, but they still won't get far if the database server is configured to only listen to connections from the IP address that the web application server is hosted at, or, if they're on the same server, only over local sockets.

Of course, the same applies to other VCSes besides Git.
Hard agree -- stories can't be reduced to a one-page essay that does not allow anger or frustration or anything but striving.
> The line of questioning is likely to play a significant role in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit, which argues that iOS app store exclusivity represents an illegal use of market power. Epic has made clear in previous filings that it plans to make iMessage exclusivity part of that argument, citing a 2016 email from Phil Schiller that argues iMessage expansion “will hurt us more than help us.”

This seems weirdly irrelevant. If Epic is arguing that not allowing other app stores onto iPhones is hurting consumers, I don't understand the relevance of Apple software on non-Apple phones. I mean, say Epic wins their case, and so Apple needs to support side-loading. The court still can't force Apple to port iMessage to other devices.
Group MMS is terrible (group chats in general) and you can't really expect a group of people to all download and install a new app because one person has it. In all likelihood, you will simply be excluded or if it's important, you will be forced to use something like facebook messenger, google hangouts, instagram, etc which is worse than SMS.
You can download the paper using the download button in the top right corner of the online reader's menu bar.
A.I.’s carbon footprint is big, but easy to reduce, Google researchers say
Yup

This is also why I NEVER use "Log In with Google" on any other service or site. I also just realized that even using the gmail address as the contact/backup is a bad idea, as if the acct gets reset and I no longer have access to that email, it's unrecoverable (exit's stage left making task to change all acct contacts off of Google..).

Also, seems from what I've read elsewhere, that the threshold for banning is as low as a single click on a known machine. this means that you can't even do a legitimate check of your own adverts.

In essence, this means that the Googles and Facebooks of the world are working to connect and consolidate identity information, and we now must work extra hard to dis-aggregate it. Seems there's an opportunity in this space to simplify and automate parts of identity fragmentation...
In that example, do you not see using S3 for that purpose as trying to use the wrong tool for the task at hand. Using AWS SSM parameter store [0] seems to me that it would be a tool designed to fit that purpose nicely.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
It's unlikely that prosecutors don't realize how Signal works. It's more likely they assume that, much like the rest of the tech world, there has been an increase in data collection efforts and they want to test the waters again to confirm/deny this data is available via Signal internals. Subpoenas are the only mechanism by which they're able to do so. That Signal are able to pivot to the media and say "yup, still court-tested, still privacy-focused" is a good thing for Signal. No need for the derisive tone I don't think.
JackMorgan, I meant that your comments read like those generated by GPT2.
Yes, see my December 2020 post at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea... :

"Effective immediately, all S3 GET, PUT, and LIST operations, as well as operations that change object tags, ACLs, or metadata, are now strongly consistent. What you write is what you will read, and the results of a LIST will be an accurate reflection of what’s in the bucket. This applies to all existing and new S3 objects, works in all regions, and is available to you at no extra charge! There’s no impact on performance, you can update an object hundreds of times per second if you’d like, and there are no global dependencies."
> how are ad companies supposed to actually target their audience with it if there is no translation between cohorts and target groups?

Even as an opaque identifier it's still useful. Imagine you run a store and you log the FLoC cohorts of your customers. You could then target ads at the most common cohorts you've seen as a way to say "show my ads to more people similar to my existing customers".

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
Is it well defined what "ads resources" is?
In the US market it's much more dominant.
I first suspected that to be some sort of testicular cancer awareness campaign. Maybe he could give it some spin in that direction.
imessage should still work?
Israel to investigate mysterious heart inflammation cases following Pfizer jab
> You do know the idea of thoughtcrime was something enforced by the state and not by a company that's free to control what their product generates, right?

Straying away from the prior context a little, the term 'thoughtcrime' along with others such as 'free speech' were coined when it was incomprehensible that a single corporation would have more control over the global population than any government. I don't know whether the time has yet come to re-evaluate which entities these concepts ought to apply to, but it will come.
The most famous Edward Gibbon published his main work on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, and the writing style is famously conversational and informal, especially in the extensive footnotes. It's not at all difficult to read. Though it certainly is long.
Don't quote me on this, but I recall reading that there is a layer of air at ground level that is very turbulent/choppy due to it's interaction with the ground which makes it terrible for wind power generation.
This is a general problem in all distributed systems, not just when pulling configuration from S3.

Let's assume you had strong consistency in S3. If your app is distributed (tens, hundreds, or thousands of instances running) then all instances are not going to update at the same time, atomically.

You still need to design flexibility into your app to handle the case where they are not all running the same config (or software) version at the same time.

Thus, once you've built a distributed system that is able to handle a phased rollout of software/config versions (and rollback), then having cache inconsistency in S3 is no big deal.

If you really need atomic updates across a distributed system then you're looking at more expensive solutions, like DynamoDB (which does offer consistent reads), or other distributed caches.
I think most writers want an income they can live off.
I don't know how it works in South Korea but in the US, appraisals don't require having to sell the building. Similarly, for insurance purposes, they need to determine a value without having to sell the building.
> if they can't sell the building because no one wants to buy it, doesn't that mean that the market value is $0?

I think it's based on comparable buildings and what they sold for recently.
oh you will love the features we have on the backlog :)
That sounds quite interesting!

Interim OS for the Raspberry Pi (http://interim-os.com/) might be interesting to look at for inspiration or maybe a basis for your project.
> They would have captured 100% of the messaging market

I'm not sure that would have helped Apple in anti-trust battles.
We refer to the first Internet boom as a bubble. The term bubble, as it is commonly used, does not mean it is going away. I think you are just making a semantic argument.
I would have been interested to hear more about the verification techniques and tools they used for this project.
So, what's happening here is that the Signal Desktop app wants a configuration, which it fetches from

https://textsecure-service.whispersystems.org/v1/config

HTTPS is HTTP protocol spoken over a TLS encrypted channel.

When these Telia users weren't able to use the Signal Desktop software, this fetch failed, with a 401 error which is the HTTP error code for Unauthorised.
A better OP would be just the source material. HN could take a page out of r/science's book in this regard and just outright ban secondary sources.
Amazon has collected sales tax since South Dakota v. Wayfair.
Thanks! That's right. We did look into more open alternatives, but went with ArcGIS and spent our time on the image processing instead. Could be cool to build an alternative site eg. with Leaflet.
Not necessarily perverse but the irony is not lost on me. It’s the Joja-playthrough, where you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
As far as i remember a futex is a fast mutex
Are you sure about that, because I was just reading the Black Start Wikipedia yesterday and it listed Hydro as one of the best at requiring little start up power. Hydro is often the Black Start source for other power plants.
I've understood it, the tradeoff is

The upside to variable length instructions is that they are on average shorter so you can fit more into your limited cache and you make better use of your RAM bandwidth.

The downside is that your decoder gets way more complex. By having a simpler decoder Apple instead has more of them (8 wide decode) and a big reorder buffer to keep them filled.

Supposedly Apple solved the downside by simply throwing lots of cache at the problem and putting the RAM on-chip.

I'm not a CPU guy and this is what I've gathered from various discussions so I'm happy to be corrected.
It's essentially virtue signalling.
> Why website owner should be bothered by it?

at least following cases would cause this:

(1) They are disliking tracking

(2) They are disliking Google

(3) Google is competing with them

(4) They want to be liked by people disliking tracking or Google
I got shafted with a similar 6 month duff product - the iPad 3. Now that was a bad decision. The iPad 4 came out later that year, with about 4X better performance and a switch to the lightning connector too.

I was so burned by that experience that I only bought an iPad again a month ago.
Quantum Sensing Takes Shape
well done! everything was perfect except the games folder is missing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Castle (and risk)
Curve25519 has only been around for something like 10 years. A catastrophic attack on it would presumably involve new ideas specific to that particular or class of curves.

Otherwise any completely new system would have to be considered secure, as it would not suffer from any of the issues of any of the older systems. My understanding is that new elliptic curves can have entirely new characteristics not shared by older curves.
No, that is run by his sister Ophelia.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/823513/ for a look at both the old and proposed new futex interfaces.
AWS fixed S3 consistency in December 2020:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-s3...
Back in the late 90s and early 00s we used to do things like running Bochs[0] instances inside of OSs running on Bochs instances recursively.

Back then we thought it was funny, but these days that just seems to be how software works.

[0] Hey guys, remember Bochs? https://bochs.sourceforge.io/