skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, this is off-topic, but: it looks like you wrote on average a page or more of personal notes every day for 10 years, and then... put it all up on github?

This is extremely fascinating to me. Why? Was it worth the effort?
One implication is it prevents solutions to things like this.

This one is a minor side note but there could be other vulnerabilities that could be resolved if the specifications were followed (I assume).
I don't see any reason why these companies should not be held responsible for the content that comes on their platform.
We can't just flip a few genes around and call it a day. We don't know how to engineer a sustainable food web from scratch. We can hardly balance our own artificial ecosystems without tons of intervention. What good is biodiversity if it's just a planet-sized zoo?
ELI5, anyone.

Are the chip registers not protected? What's the mechanism that's allowing this data sharing to happen?
The author tried to paint Orwell just as "next man", but he can't even write half as clearly as Orwell does.
Believe it or not, one of the problems deserts have for growing plants is too much sun.

Or rather, too much sun for available water. Installing solar panels high enough that goats don't bump into them, and planting shade-tolerant arid plants, can absolutely support grazing.
I recently came across Fastspring, they let you generate a license key upon purchase. I'm not using it myself, but it might be helpful https://fastspring.com/docs/fulfillments/
In the Bay Area, with PG&E at least, you can trivially choose your mix, and designate that you want only renewables. Perhaps this is pure accounting trickery, and it's essentially just making the remaining mix dirtier, but it's at least incredibly easy.

Another alternative for apartment dwellers, though I don't know if there are many options in CA, is Community Solar, where you buy a share of a utility-sized installation.
As someone who as been on both ends of that spectrum at different points of my life, I’ll attempt to explain: your core concept is completely legitimate and understood, at least here in HN.

Presenting it as a clear-cut _you are a queue of work and paychecks_ is where it breeds conflict. For the royal you that description is merely a description and expresses no judgement, it is simply the _why_ of your intentional lack of interaction with your coworkers.

To the people on the other side, that description brings back the negative feelings they felt when a coworker that held that same opinion (not you) was unnecesarily rude at work and shielded his failings behind the _I don’t do people_ cover.

I realize that asking you to use the human touch (for lack of a better term) is asking you to have to “work” to cater to the social aspects that you are trying to not get involved with…

So instead I’ll posit that your last paragraph is a perfectly acceptable response to the eternal “want to join and be social” question. It’s innofensive yet firm, and it conveys your position in a concise way that nobody can really pick apart unless they want to make an scene and look bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO6sfku_1b8
The federalist system in the US states power originates in the people as represented by the State governments. The Federal government has its powers delegated to it by the States. Local government similarly have their power delegated to them by the state.

Thus there is no hypocrisy in a state governor wanting less local power and more state power. In this framework, The State is after all the atomic point where no further decentralization is possible.
There are many people (both in the US and in the world in general) who could quite honestly say the same thing about the homeless in San Francisco... This does not make their situation particularly wonderful, in either case.
I was surprised to hear that's economical.

Singapore to Darwin is about 2000 miles. For reference, that's comparable to Chicago to LA. That's at least an order of magnitude larger than what I'm used to thinking about for transmission.

It turns out that if you want to drive your transmission loss down, you need to run at (substantially) higher voltage. This is predominantly driven by resistive loss because your transmission wires aren't perfect conductors, as well as corona loss which scales with voltage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110604181007/https://www.aep.c...

has some stats on stats on line losses. At 765 kV (this is 50x what you'd see on a local transmission line), with the best cited figure (circa 2007) of 0.5% loss per 100 miles, you'd see about 10% loss over 2k miles. That's not great, but it doesn't actually seem horrible -- if you're producing 2x the power you need anyways, then you're still delivering a huge surplus.
I've never worked for one, but why not? Is it because you don't work on a project long enough to understand the consequences of design decisions?
Coming from bitbucket I find gitlab design too busy as well and missing some basic obvious functionality which could be there but it's not intuitive. For example, when viewing a merge request I can't find a way to copy the target branch name.
Blather. Hire kids who don't know how or when to say no, and you are coin flipping on whether your project will crash and burn.

My advice to CS majors is that you need to make enough to retire by 35 as that's when you stand a good chance of being tossed on the trash heap.

Alternatively - win the startup lottery and either cash out or continue as principal.
oh fantastic! thanks
I don’t know. For me, I’m very much looking forward to having dinner and a party with my co-workers again.

I don’t want that every week, but the once every 3 months’ish that we had going was pretty nice.
> But none of this requires GPT. Much simpler bots often do the trick, and when slightly more finesse is required a whole army of human "bots" stand ready on the grey market to take your crypto and post carefully crafted bullshit wherever you like. GPT MAY end up automating out this human element a bit, but it's hardly a harbinger of doom.

The 'doom' part is simply that automation, rather than enabling new classes of attack, is going to make a wide variety of nastiness much cheaper and easier to scale, and so viable for a broader array of targets and purposes, and accessible to more actors.

Conversely, you can expect that the cheap forms of sockpuppetry and spam (eg. X RTs for $Y) will get more effective at their existing price points. Which also broadens their appeal.

Here's a thought experiment: What happens when the kind of targeted influence and misinformation campaign deployed in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections is just as feasible for most of the down ballot as well?
My favorite part of the entire page:

> So what's the point of this website?

> Poking fun at how ridiculous infosec clickbait vulnerability reporting has become lately. Just because it has a flashy website or it makes the news doesn't mean you need to care.

> If you've read all the way to here, congratulations! You're one of the rare people who doesn't just retweet based on the page title :-)
I also had a look a while back but I was hoping they had one for Apple devs or whatever.

Some documentation would be nice...
I read both Ellul and OP in engineering ethics class in my underground. But fair point, most of my colleagues were pretty disinterested in the material.
The implications are just that OSes that assume otherwise won't run; Linux used to work (by chance) until a patch that just about coincided with our project went in that used the non-VHE ("type 1") mode by default, which broke it, and then we had to add an explicit workaround for the M1.

It's just a very unfortunate coincidence that precisely that support would allow this bug to be trivially mitigated on Linux. (Wouldn't help macOS, as they'd have to implement this from scratch anyway; it's just that existing OSes that support this mode could use it).

The actual issue is just what I described: the hardware implementation of this register neglects to check for and reject accesses from EL0 (userspace). It's a chip logic design flaw. I don't know exactly where it is (whether in the core/instruction decoder, or in the cluster component that actually holds the register, depending on where they do access controls), but either way that's what the problem is.
What do you think is the root of the problem? You say faith in humanity but do you mean these people are failing? If so, are they the cause of it or possibly the media they/we are consuming? If you agree with that and that vested interests influence that media then what can we do? It seems like a fatal cacth-22 for the kind of democracies we have.
It depends on whether you have any meaningful amount of stock - and that meaningfulness varies to some extent by how expensive your city is and what your standards are of course - and whether you're so empowered as to make a meaningful difference in the "stock price."

I'm fairly senior, but since I don't work in sales nor in some strategy aspect of the business, I don't "make the stock go up." I can get more stock as a pat on the head if I'm a good boy, at the end of the year, but generally 95% of the company is waiting for the stock to vest and let the stock go up by itself.

Senior companies at my company think people will work harder if they have stock because they "want to make the stock go up." This is false. Great company, false premise nonetheless.
I hope you're being sarcastic. I stopped a couple of paras into the Feelings of Inferiority section. This guy is a bitter, unloved and loveless incel.
One of the problems with how people consider the Vietnam war is that they don't understand that it was not the US military (and partners) against the North Vietnamese military, it was the US et el against the entire North Vietnamese population along with a lot of southern sympathisers.

If the aim of the US was to ensure that Vietnam did not end up being communist, then they had to convince the people not to become communist. What they did, in some of the most horrific ways possible, was to convince the Vietnamese people, and a lot of those in neighbouring Cambodia and Laos that the western democracies didn't care about them as people, they were just playing politics with their lives. This left the Chinese backed communists and easy road to winning the hearts and minds.

The US lost the military war because they lost the public relations war, both at home, and in the country they were trying to liberate.

If you look at later wars, Gulf War 2, Afghanistan, you could argue that they have learnt nothing. You will never win people over to your way of thinking by dropping bombs on them, that just ensures that they will never bow to your will.
What worries me is if crypto miners and crypto buyers, whose belief in cryptocurrencies is closer to a religion, would progressively lock more and more of these renewables for mining.

Now it's still 0.5% of the world's electricity production. What would prevent it for jumping to 30% in a few years?

In your assumption, the bitcoin market price stays level. But it can double or triple quickly, and peak for short intervals of time, or stay high. All because of the belief of bitcoiners. That's all just a huge socio-psychological problem.
> capitalism’s death toll far exceeds 100 million, it achieves that much in a few years

Do you have a reliable source for this fantastical claim?
It costs too much to manufacture here in part because we don't have a manufacturing infrastructure on par with China, and because it costs money for a business to "move back".

It would be a multi-decade project, but we could (and imo, should) government subsidize our way out of that.
The author agrees with you partway down the page.
Yeah, I keep having issues with CORS headers in Firefox and then it becomes really hard to pinpoint which extension caused what.

I may be wrong but it didn't used to be like that. It's a sideeffect of the whole webextension concept no?
> Every adaptable system evolves to adapt to a changing environment by detecting "modes" (categories) and adapting to each mode. Then we start noticing categories come in instances. There's a tree, there are more trees. So now it's useful to count them...

I really like this part of the explanation, although not all adaptive systems are intelligent. E.g if I add a grain of salt on a heap of salt and it suddenly collapses, that is an adaptive system but not as a result of intelligent modeling of how it should behave.

> Not because numbers are fundamental to the universe. Rather they're fundamental aspect of intelligently adapting to (i.e. thinking about and making predictions about) the universe.

Here the problem is assuming intelligent adaptivity and the agent that has it is something separate from the universe. Being able to have a model of the universe inherently requires internally resembling the structural functional organization of the universe, a mutual conformity if you will, and therefore if numbers, counting, modes, categories etc are fundamentally useful constructs, I think they also at least resemble a fundamental part of the universe.
One thing to note is that for many people, a standard 120 volt 15 amp outlet will be enough for day-to-day usage. In a Tesla, that gets you ~5 miles/hour of charging speed, so if you leave it alone for ~14 hours, there's 70 miles of range added.

So maybe an extension cord and a normal outlet gets you what you want.
This is false. Please read the white paper. It clearly states in section 4:

> The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it. If a majority of CPU power is controlled by honest nodes, the honest chain will grow the fastest and outpace any competing chains.

If the majority of the hashpower (not nodes!) is dishonest, you can rewrite history. It's the reason why the current difficulty is part of a block.

This has been done numerous times in the past for small but highly traded altcoins.
Thanks for the link

> The real enemy addressed by inlining is unexpected dependency and mutation of state, which functional programming solves more directly and completely. However, if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing. When it gets to be too much to take, figure out how to factor blocks out into pure functions (and don.t let them slide back into impurity!).
For sure, but “Clojure doesn't provide built-in function for exponential operation” is still an objectively true assertion.

If your point is that it’s wrong in spirit, I totally agree, and I think this is yet another example of the limits of this “cheat sheet” approach. If you’re coming from another language, the concept of easy, well integrated interop with a host language platform would be fairly foreign, so the importance of an available Java method, and the fact that such methods are frequently used as core parts of the language, would be totally lost on you.
Apple is perfectly suited for this with the iPad. But if you’ve ever set an iPad up for a toddler.... you’ll know the nightmare of Apple ID, numerous repetitive authentication issues and their terrible “screentime” UI/functions.

It has completely fudged any hope I have in them doing it with any sort of ease.

What you need, is a device that does literally nothing else but a video call over WiFi. May take some hacking, but may be possible with some effort.
You can still solve the issue in VHE mode, since you can still implement a Type 1 hypervisor in VHE mode. It's just that, well, nobody does that, because why would they? That's what non-VHE mode is for.

So it's not that not following the spec prevents the workaround, it's just that had they followed the spec it would just take a single kernel command line argument (to force non-VHE mode) to fix this in Linux, while instead, now we'd have to make major changes to KVM to make the non-VHE code actually work with VHE, and really nobody wants to do that just to mitigate this silly thing.

Had this been a more dangerous flaw (e.g. with DoS or worse consequences), OSes would be scrambling to make major reworks right now to mitigate it in that way. macOS would have to turn its entire hypervisor design on its head. Possible, but not fun.
Supply management and sourcing (middleman). findchips.com. Their competition is octopart.com and tens of Chinese part aggregators, websites you stumble upon when searching for datasheets and instead landing on a site listing vendors with "enter email for a quote" links.

I imagine they had great quarter or two during recent chip shortage, everyone is scrambling for inventory.
I’m not exactly sure sure why I’m being down voted for pointing out that candidates cancelling offers can also have an impact, especially for start ups. If I’ve said something that offended someone, I’m sorry. But HN is supposed to be a community where you can play devils advocate, offer differing opinions and opposing views.

For the record I don’t think it’s wrong for a candidate to pull out if they found something better. It’s all just a part of the game. All I intended to do was bring to light that everyone is guilty for playing and optimizing for their own self interest, and not just the corporations.
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Why? If we're all gone then there will be no life to value life and thus no suffering. Are you saying life is inherently and objectively valuable? If so, how?
"So you're telling me I shouldn't worry? Yes."
> So what's the real danger?

> If you already have malware on your computer, that malware can communicate with other malware on your computer in an unexpected way.

> Chances are it could communicate in plenty of expected ways anyway.
I noticed that after I posted and had read a bit more; but you're also using F# which has proper ADTs. I'm typically writing support scripts in Python or the like, and even very good libraries like click[1] nevertheless reflect the idioms popular in the language.

I really came back to this post because I was struggling with Gradle and if there is a more perfect illustration of how a dry run mode could help than that, I don't know what it could be. Gradle builds are a fucking mystery, every time, and there's no excuse for it.

[1]: https://palletsprojects.com/p/click/
Any comment critical of Google here will get downvoted.
> But if the objective of the USA was to prevent a domino of communism taking over all of South-East Asia, we can pretty clearly see where the advance of communism was stopped.

But Communism flourished in Vietnam. So if you want to argue domino theory (which was wrong anyways), they certainly didn't stop the Vietnamese domino. So they didn't win in Vietnam.
Siemens doesnt even know hackaday exists. Supplyframe will probably be fine, but RIP hackaday.
Immature AI making bad decisions:
check

Google being hard to get on the phone: check

Where is the bingo sheet
1. Hands are dirty/unavailable (like other mentioned cooking)
2. The physical controls are physically across the room
3. The physical controls can't be located easily (lost remote, dark room)

Another point, the cognitive load of speaking a command is different than pecking through menus on a phone or finding the right button on the remote/device. It may be easier to just speak out load depending on your state if mind.
It was for the northern regime. They took control of the south, by force. That's pretty straightforward war-winning.
It’s yet another example of people really sucking at understanding exponential changes.
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There's two bits of a CPU's register that are shared between all of its processes and that any process can write to. The result is that two sandboxed processes that are supposed to be totally isolated from each other can use this to communicate anyway. One example of how this can be exploited is cross-app tracking: if you told one app your name and another your location, they could secretly communicate with each other so both apps end up with both pieces of information.
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> uncensored information

On the contrary, these platforms are masssive cesspools of censored content.
Numbers are inevitable.

How many people are we? How many berries do we need to collect for each.

Later: How many seeds do we need to sow. How big a foundation is needed for this building… How many suns until the weather gets warmer again?

I suppose you could do without if you lived in a cave with endless food readily available outside.
This seems highly dystopian and wildly inaccurate. The beatings will continue until moral improves.
Cost/energy efficient carbon sequestration is extremely far from a solved problem.
Google did respond and consciously decided to maintain the "locked as private" status of the video, with an explanation of an irrelevant "violent criminal organizations" policy violation. Automation isn't to blame here.
Your computer might spontaneously combust.
> I mean installing an app

I meant exactly that and didn’t mean Jailbreaking. Apple officially supports allowing you to sign apps for your own device with a free developer account, it’s just the signing expires after 7 days (unlike the paid developer accounts which expire after a year). It’s a hassle to need to reinstall weekly (hence my point about it likely not being to one’s liking), but there are apps[0] available to automate the process. So my point stands, nothing is stopping you from using iOS and installing apps from outside the App Store but yourself.

[0] https://altstore.io/
Actually not a bad song [0]. Thanks to whoever made this, I guess :D

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41KoE0iMYU
Hah I hope not. I'm 31 and just starting my time as a stay at home dad. I sure hope the tech jobs are around for me when I make it out the other side :)
The hilarious thing is, the entire time the US was in Vietnam, top leadership in the US admin was pretty much convinced they could never win, but had to put in a good show.

So they were never even "winning" in the sense that the US leadership thought they were winning.
I find it hard to reconcile the common complaint that software developers are often unemployable past 35 with my personal observations.

This is pure anecdata, but I don't think I know a single software developer who was unable to continue in the industry past 35 as commonly claimed.

On the other hand, I know tons of former financial employees who became unemployable in the industry at 30 or even earlier.
You can still watch the video on Twitter.

Seems the policy is if the aggressors are of the incorrect race it won't be shown on YouTube. Bet if the aggressors were white you will be able to watch and comment at length.

P.S. I am brown
> For the safety of the existing, low-mount solar arrays, goats, cows, pigs, and horses are not recommended.

Goats climb anything.
There is a small bit of memory that all programs on your computer share that isn’t protected in any way. If two misbehaving programs on your computer wanted to communicate in a really really secret way, they could use it.

If you don’t have misbehaving programs on your computer that want to secretly communicate than it doesn’t matter.
I think that was the point. XD
This is common to the point BART in SF started to censor surveillance videos of vicious attacks because it would "create a racial bias against minorities". [1]

If attacks don't fit the prevailing political narrative, they're buried immediately and sometimes covered up completely.

[1] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...
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Strange concept

totes

how is this not porn yet?

oh just wait...unfortunately it will be

i wish people would find other uses....haha..jk

oh wait its just two of us, awkward

so aawk
The content of the website basically makes that point itself. It's mocking the whole concept of these vulnerability websites, while also presenting a real (but not very impactful) vulnerability.