skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple is hostile to their users

This doesn't match my anecdata, but perhaps things have changed in the past few years.
Its difficult to chastise a country that misses the forest for the trees, when that country has spent sixty years formenting a culture of blind consumption and wilful ignorance of anything STEM. instead of a flourishing culture of hacking and computing, the united states through DMCA and law relegated the notion to comic books and hollywood fiction. most of the public war drumming for 'hacking' (if it could be said to exist at all in 2021) is a thinly veiled surrogate of consumerism.

What reason would we have to blame the company for poor security hygene? what possible outcome could we hope for when in 2021 nearly every Solarwinds customer renewed their license after the hack.
well, you sir, are the first.
except maybe those lamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

:)
This particular disconnect of philosophical liberalism and empiricism that was in many ways revolutionary and empowering for individuals standing in conflict with a repressive, traditionalist and elite culture is nothing new. It's particularly common in the British (and today American, having supplanted the British) elite not only during the time of Hume.

You also see it in Keynes for example, who on the one hand is a liberal hero but on the other was a fairly staunch imperialist and eugenicist. There's also Hayek, with his focus on freedom on the one hand but endorsement of monarchy or even dictatorship on the other.

Personally I think this is an inevitable consequence of liberalism in general (using the word in the broad, European sense of the term) because it's fundamentally an elite, top-down driven project. A belief system based on abstract, contractual and individual freedom made by and to a large degree for the governing and intellectual class is always going to come into tension with the population at large, leading to a Conservative political mentality, both on what we today call the left or the right.
What solution do you recommend?
It definitely is a negative spin. I know people like the convenience of having one store, but Valve isn't entitled to a monopoly and frankly Epic using their Fortnite cash to get as many exclusives as possible to get as many people on their store as fast as possible was their only move when facing a juggernaut. Competition between them will be good.
Executives are rewarded extremely handsomely for short-term returns. Even if the company goes under, they've long ago accumulated enough wealth to live out their lives fabulously. The incentives to invest in security are weak.
> "why does everyone seem to think that non-profit CEOs shouldn't get competitive salaries?"

Because the only places they can get salaries from is the donors who think they are donating to help the charity cases. Donating "$2 to save a child's life" and then finding you donated a quarter millionth of the salary which keeps the CEO in the 1% of earners, sucks.
Elon Musk hosts SNL as the world watches for crypto mentions
My experience as a 40k player is that we are there despite GamesWorkshop and not because of them. If you want to play in-person then you will need to accommodate players that want to use customs or stand-ins (I declare this bottlecap to be a tank, sir) because the game is extremely P2W and unfriendly to experimentation otherwise.

The Pokemon community is like this as well. Everything happens on a bootleg website, partially because breeding and getting good stats is extremely time consuming, but also because the IRL scene is geared towards kids.
You have three doors. As you note, you have a 1/3 chance of winning.

Monty now reveals a losing door. At this point, your door has a 1/3 chance of still winning - the probability of that choice can’t change. However, as we now know one door has a 0/3 chance of winning (it’s been revealed) the remaining door must have (1-1/3) chance of winning. Thus, the remaining door has a 2/3 chance of winning.
On the other hand, I think this rampant ahistoricity is problematic. We currently have a notion of tolerance which does not extend past the present, if we don’t manage to engage with historical thought in a principled way, acknowledging the faults of our predecessors while retaining their virtues, I fear we’ll lose more than we’ll gain. Ironically, Descartes was responsible for such an ignorant, damaging ahistorical program, effectively jettisoning a whole swath of philosophical work that went on after Ockham and effectively launching a virus of egoism that’s still rampant, virulent, and probably at the worst its ever been in modern western thought.
> investors

investors assume risk. including losing the capital because of jerks.
Long live RSS.
This should be possible. I think it is important for scientists to do both novel and replication studies.

One way to improve on the status quo would be to make students do both types of work (the point of a PhD is to demonstrate that you can do research, by doing it. So why not do both kinds). This actually could fit in nicely in the program: first/second years tend to be inexperienced anyway, so they could start by doing some replication work. Halfway through the degree, they switch to novel work.
Cost of doing otherwise very profitable business.
I think money earned through voluntary exchange is highly correlated and generally in proportion with value add to society. If we zoom in to particular examples, most of them fit into this category.

You pay Netflix $15/month because you think it adds more than that much value to your life. Netflix earning that income is a consequence of your judgement of the value add of that service to your life. If Netflix makes billions in profits, it's because people like you thought that it added that much value (and more) to their lives. The same reasoning applies to most things (groceries, personal trainer, hairdresser, etc).

There are ways that people can get rich that definitely aren't proportionate to their value add. Cronyism, externalities, hijacking people's dopamine systems, and so on. That's why we need a government that can implement the right policies that maximize the correlation between money earned and value add.

There's also things that add large value through positive externalities that don't result in getting rich, such as scientific research, where it's very hard to privatize the benefits.

A big problem we have in this discourse is the conflation of the two ways of making money (value add vs extraction) into a single bucket (on the far-left it's all extraction and on the economic-right it's all value-add), which is having a terrible impact on our ability to think clearly about policy and is making regular people resentful and jealous instead of thankful towards the most productive people in our society.
Epicycles are predictive, because they just represent a Fourier approximation to an ellipse. They predict the future, just with finite precision, so to increase precision you need to add more parameters.

Regarding dark matter, I'm not comparing it to epicycles. The cold dark matter theory is very predictive and it has made many predictions that were confirmed. But in the same time, I am perfectly willing to accept other theory which will explain all current observations without dark matter. Just so far nobody came up with one.
I hang out with my friends every day on Ventrilo voice chat playing Dota. This was just after school. No pandemic driving it. It was a game and anyone who thinks overwise is a headass or trying too hard to be smart.
lol, once more on cue.
You think Fireeye had massive security lapses because they reported they were hacked. Everyone else was also hacked and FireEye was the only one that figured it out and blew the whole thing wide open. Now if the best incident responders in the world can’t always prevent malicious activity on their network, how is an oil company going to do that? Or utilities, transporters, hospitals, defense contractors, or universities? The truth is everything is vulnerable, and what you think is the stability and security of all the other organizations you don’t hear about getting hacked, is just the current set of hackers working hard to be discreet. I think if war was to break out with certain other nations we’d find it in a hurry how much our infrastructure has already been compromised.
Great read, although I don't think I have enough knowledge to fully appreciate the details of the article.

I had similar problem before, and I didn't even notice that the cache was not cleared and had worked on pointless hypothesis until a coworker pointed out that there was a case where the kernel didn't evict the page cache. It's very hard to even detect that problem.

Twitter's Engineering blog has several interesting posts recently btw. Kudos to them.
My annoyance with the local stores is that they don't even try to compete on the only things they can compete on.

They're never going to win on pricing or selection. The Amazons and Walmarts of the world are backed by huge logistics networks and software, with ruthless efficiency.

What they could absolutely thrash the big guys on is service and experience... yet they don't even bother. Disinterested jobsworth sales droids (usually teenagers) who know nothing about what they're selling or where they're selling it don't make for a compelling experience. The times I've had to flag someone down who was either playing on their phone or chitchatting with coworkers who then proceeded to look at me like I'm the one being an asshole in this interaction for interrupting before being absolutely no help at all has placed quite a few local businesses on my "do not shop here" list.
They replaced food clock with a straight-up death clock. There's a counter that constantly ticks down; if it reaches zero, you just die.
Shenmue did not promise Steam, it promised PC. There's absolutely no mention of Steam in the original Kickstarter : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/
No, if a bit flip is detected the packet is simply resent:

> If there is a data error and the CRC check fails, however, the receiver will not reply with an ACK, and the transmitter is required to resend the data with the same toggle bit. The transmitter will continue to resend the same data with the same toggle bit until the receiver ACKs its reception.
Because it is illegal to pay someone else to do a crime?

Breaking contracts is a crime, since these contracts are not "that serious", nobody attempted to prosecute devs, but that doesn't make it stop being a crime.

Also I believe in some countries what Epic is doing is called "Tortious Interference with Contract" or something like that. I am not a lawyer though.

But for example, Shenmue devs, if they didn't had backed down from refunds and got sued, they could get convicted of literally stealing money, since they got money and ran away with it.

Then in their defense, they could point out that Epic told them to do it and gave them a lot of money to ensure they would do it.

What you think would have happened in that case?

EDIT: I will be clear, and stop arguing this point because it is being stupid now.

I am not "angry" at epic, or at anyone.

I am only explaining what I meant on my point above about Epic paying people to not sell on other stores, this is a fact, not a negative and toxic spin, Epic DID pay devs to not sell on other stores, they said that themselves on the trial. I am not "angry" at them for it, or with the devs, I am only saying what happened.

I am not a Valve fanboy, not a Epic fanboy, I am not a fanboy, I don't like Apple disallowing sideloading, but I also think Epic approach to this subject could been done differently (not breaking rules, to start).
I would also argue that there is a cultural expectation you don't let your kids just wander about and take care of themselves as people used to do decades ago makes it harder as well. Now if you aren't concerned there is a pedophile around every corner, you're the crazy one. If you don't take an instagram photo of your child every week, you clearly don't care much for your kids.
No. Emphysema is pretty much a given for lifelong smokers who continue smoking past their 45th birthday.
I always thought they were watering the beer down so you could drink it in place of water so you wouldn't be inebriated after breakfast.
Only the official documentation for Intel CPU's.
Almost nobody uses Intel CPU's writing asm, most asm writers are on arm or mips, in the embedded world.

AT&T is dominant, Intel syntax is for the poor Windows folks.
Malcolm Rose Gaming [1] who holds the longest win streak record in DCSS loves to rant about the developers on his streams.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/MalcolmRoseGaming/videos
More is never enough is it
“I believe people are smart and some people
want to share more data than other people do.
Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them
tell you to stop asking them if they get tired
of your asking them. Let them know precisely
what you’re going to do with their data.”

Steve Jobs

All Things Digital Conference, 2010
Reporting in, sir!

I've played 40k since 1987 and WH Fantasy since 1990. I used to play fantasy tournaments along with the Orange County Choppas, usually with a high elf army. Played for the US national championship in 'Ard Boyz twice, but never won it. Back in 2014 I had to quit the tournament scene, as I was working on a startup and I just couldn't keep it all in my head.

The local WH Fantasy scene here in Central Florida kind of dried up after Age of Sigmar, so I haven't had a good game in ages.
Vent was your community, playing Dota. There is a place to distinguish between the two. Fortnite having a concert in the game was what made it 'not a game' to me.
It's hilarious to me that a country that invests so much in their military doesn't seem to invest in the security of their infrastructure at all.

The entire war machine will grind to a halt without oil. It would be one of the first thing to attack.
We need to have military responses to these attacks. Ransomware is running rampant because they don't fear any punishment for attacks. If people attacked our hospitals and pipelines with explosives we wouldn't sit by and do nothing.
Since we're recommending, Cogmind [1] is awesome.

[1] https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/
Happily, Hume himself would probably agree with you! The guy was even skeptical of his own skepticism.
Yes, they would have a tax liability in each location, with foreign tax credit offsets. So they end up paying whatever is the highest tax rate.
If the host reveals a goat at random rather than by special knowledge, your odds don't go from 33% to 66% by switching. The case where the host reveals a goat is only two out of three, not three out of three because one third of the time, the host will reveal the car. In one of those two cases, you picked a goat and in the other you picked a car. So you're at 50% odds whether you switch or not, if the host doesn't know where the car is.

If the host does know, then there are three out of three cases where the host reveals a goat. In one out of three cases you picked the car but in the other two cases you picked the goat. So that's why your odds go up if you switch.
I think people didn't check because the answer of 50% is so strikingly obvious (despite being wrong) that it seems like there's no work to check.
What makes it cleaner? To me it looks as if it is zx with a different programming language while using ~ instead of $ for shell commands.
Consistent enforcement requires perfect moderation.
I can't comment on the situation prior, but post-covid it's pretty common afaik. I've been entirely remote since last March, in both software developer and grad student roles, and although word is students will be back in the office/classroom this fall at my institution I think there is likely a lot of flexibility w.r.t. software-oriented positions

I know a few people who work outside of academia, e.g. agtech companies under the Flagship Pioneering umbrella (Inari etc, same parent as Moderna and various other ag/biotech) and the software teams are very remote friendly I believe

If you're interested in a staff position at a university there's a chance my PI might be hiring for full time dev positions later this year (dependent on luck with grant applications), lmk if interested
You're quoting Priceonomic's 2021 description of the problem. This is NOT the 1990 Parade Magazine description of the problem that generated all the responses.
I have the opposite sentiment, I wish it was much, much shorter. So much of it is just repetitive filler.
Thats what I'm stuck on, I suppose.

Imagine the entire situation is reversed. The Reverse Monty Hall problem.

I'm given a choice between two doors, once of which contains a car and one contains a goat. I have to choose, 1 or 2.

Then the game show host reveals that there was also a third door, which contained a goat, which is no longer relevant and never was relevant. I'm then also asked to choose a door (which is also irrelevant since the problem is backwards and the supposed aim is to get the car).

Even if that last step repeats 1000 times with 1000 doors and 1 car, each removing a goat-door, the only relevant choice is still the first one as the host appears to be adding new information, but it's always irrelevant information as a new choice is always made at the end.
Alice in Wonderland

Gulliver's Travels
hmmm...might be time for me to develop a side-expertise in cybersecurity...always kinda scoffed at those electives before, but now I see that there are literal lives at stake if our nation doesn't have excellent talent working in fields like cybersecurity for national defense.
Yes, I was assuming it was char *, as in the OP, which can be signed. And any left shift of a negative quantity is UB in C (I'm not sure if this is fixed in recent C++), it doesn't have to be what's commonly thought of as overflow.
Its enough to disprove your earlier assertion that

>almost nobody recovers data from a broken HDD other than personal computers
The post should be marked as [2006]. A lot has changed since then. For example it doesn't talk about NUMA but it should, if it were written today.

I would love to hear some opinions from the authors of more contemporary web servers like one of H2O or Envoy. (The latter may have slightly different use cases though.)
I once thought that had to be the case. I wrote the simulation to demonstrate that I was correct. I learned that I wasn't. I encourage you to do likewise.

I think I now have an understanding of why the right answer is the right answer, but I thought I had that before; I am more confident in the answer than my reasoning.
Thanks for a reasonable discussion - about racism! on the Internet!

I'm not sure the interpretation of one sentence bears more examination (as I imagine you might agree). I think we would agree that there are various reasonable interpretations, which may be more or less apparent to different people, and that of course a comment on HN isn't scripture or a $100 million contract where every nuance is carefully authored and then reviewed by the counter-party; it's something written and read in a minute at most.

Beyond what I said, I think another instinct of mine is that people often find something to criticize, changing the subject, rather than addressing the racism. For example, person X asserts something about racism, and the response is 'X has two illegitimate kids and said something mean to their neighbor!' But that is too broad a pattern to say it describes this one specific comment.

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Any Athens metal recommendations? The most creative, eccentric, Athens-in-particular-and-ignore-every-other-tradition musician?
Also note that rock had a back-and-forth influence with country, and rap is now having a back-and-forth influence on rock (and country to a lesser degree).
horrible article, very hard to figure out what was actually said by Dylan vs. other people vs the author 'stream of consciousness'.
What are you talking about? The country has spent so much time on STEM, that we have a trade labor shortage.

Please.
I had just the opposite problem - I've had the same phone number linked forever, but I left my backup email set to my work address at a previous job. I wasn't able to reset my password without access to the latter.

After about 5 years of occasionally flunking the questionnaire to prove I was me, Google relented and allowed me to update my password via a code sent to my phone and another sent to the gmail account itself.

Which is to say that I was saved by a device that had access to my original gmail for five years without ever asking for the password. Which doesn't seem like an example of sterling security.
Maybe someone can help me with this -- what if for round two, you flipped a coin: heads you pick the door you picked previously, tails you pick the other door. Does that change things at all, since you're "switching" each time?

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Edited -- Actually @haberman's comment that "By opening a door, Monty lets you cover 100% of the "everything else" makes the most sense to me as I think about this. Imagine there is no Monty hall, just three doors, and I say "you can choose one door and you win if there's a car behind it, or choose two doors and see if there's a car behind it." Clearly you're better off choosing two doors. And that's in fact, functionally what happens by switching after a door is eliminated.
Ethics as PR (Or the ‘Some Good People Work There ’ Fallacy)
It's very interesting that you make the distinction between a 'developer' and a 'user-programmer'. I've never thought of it that way before, but I've come to the realization that all the programs I write are not written specifically for my computer, my computer is simply one of many compile targets and platforms which they can run on. It would be incredible if I could actually program the normal operations of my computer from user space, instead of writing programs for an abstract x86_64 device which, at runtime, happens to be my computer.
This shows how much of our intelligence is crystalized (external). We look intelligent because we're reusing the solutions found by others. As soon as we can't do that it becomes apparent that the intelligence of a single person is not so great. It took us millennia to get where we are.
There's a built-in tutorial, that's the best way to learn.
Google has https://pointy.withgoogle.com/#overview for stores to publish real time inventory.
> In short, if cryptocurrencies threaten the power of violent governments, they will use violence to destroy cryptocurrencies.

There are smart contract based solutions like Ethereum. The latter offers to create system which fundamentally avoids disputes (like a lock, once you lock your home, you don't have to worry about someone easily just entering and squatting your home). Govts have no reason to oppose this, just like govt have no real reason to oppose people using Uber to hail rides.

Smart Contracts can also create dispute resolution mechanism which does a far better job than today's judicial system or the opaque arbitration system we have today. Again, govts don't have a problem with this.

You're confusing a smart contracts based blockchain platform with 'replace-the-dollar' cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash (not mentioning Bitcoin because they aim to replace Gold from your portfolio, and not the cash). These things threaten the govts, but the former category of technology doesn't.
lol war machine? what war machine? there's proxy wars and internal civil conflicts happening abroad, and definitely shady profiteering in some places, and definitely refugee crisis many of which are caused by climate change actually...but what war machine are you talking about? there's no real war out there. if there was, most of us wouldn't be here posting anymore. I hope to God there's never actual war out there.
I in large part owe my adult software career to being an asocial, weird kid who learned Lua around ~9-10 from spending all their free time scripting random things in a 3D environment in Second Life's Lua dialect, LSL.

Really funny feeling, the sort of butterfly effect/unintended consequences.