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Sure, that’s effectively an embedded system, which puts it in the same category as a microcontroller. Like I said, my reply was about normal desktop machines, and not microcontrollers or embedded systems.

I have to admit it’s interesting in the context of virtualization, where deploying a program to a unikernel virtual machine might be perfectly fine for a lot of programs. In that case, some host OS is still handling security and resource contention, so this seems a little like ducking the question.

The unikernel design in practice does not put the kernel into the programming language either, it just allows compiling the kernel and the language together. It still has an OS/user boundary. Security is either non-existent or very difficult with unikernels. Running multiple programs at once is tricky.

“unikernels are unsuitable for the kind of general purpose, multi-user computing that traditional operating systems are used for. Adding additional functionality or altering a compiled unikernel is generally not possible and instead the approach is to compile and deploy a new unikernel with the desired changes.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel
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Sounds like the University of Minnesota already has a team ready.
I followed the Paul Graham link.

It is true that "philosophy" refers to a bunch of apparently-unrelated disciplines. What they share doesn't have a name that I know of; it is that they all depend on how to think, in broad terms (perceive, remember, how to reason etc.).

Paul Graham certainly knows how to think. But I think he doesn't give enough credit for that to his philosophy training.
Cybersecurity is not a technology problem. It's a policy and enforcement problem. Ground and mid-level operating convenience will always destroy any attempt to create security unless strong standards of behavior are created and ruthlessly enforced. I've never seen it happen successfully outside of technology corporations staffed by nerds who actually care or the military. All it takes is one guy who knows a guy and then the admin password is on a notepad on the desk. All it takes is one guy who doesn't get a 4G signal in one room so he brings a router from home and plugs it into the network.
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I’ve used Google’s custom search engine (cse) to help solve this, when working on a project, just make a cse with the main sources of official docs for the stack you’re using; instead of getting 20 possibly related questions with half solutions that you have to wade through, you get straight to the source docs. I guess it works best when those source docs are good, eg postgres, but it’s certainly been a big win for me
In what way is it deviant?
Agreed. Paper filter is way better. Getting good quality filters makes a difference too, there are a lot out there for Aeropress, Chemex, etc.

Anecdotally I had some cholesterol issues and found that going to paper of metal made a difference, surprisingly. Probably not significant but seemed to help in my case (I was drinking a lot of coffee then). Now I can't stand the oily texture of a French press.
> It is easier to abstract (at least nively). First, you abstract moving a single file, then you create abstraction for "all files" basically by repeating same operation for all files. You could do this for a subset of files and so on.

Litte bit of a rant, but I see this SO MUCH in database layers in applications. Implement an operation for one row, slap a for loop around it, it works kinda quickly on the small test data set... and then prod has an intimate conversation with a brick wall. It has been 0 days at work since that happened.

> As to slow operations... that is more likely because of synchronous implementation.

Interestingly, I think the answer is a solid maybe and depends on the storage and how you issue your i-o operations. A flash storage will increase performance if you increase parallel operations, up to a point. However - and this code apparently was written 20 years ago - on spinning drives, parallel io-operations slow you down if the OS does not merge those operations. So it's entirely not obvious.
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You’re right about some of the things you are saying, I’ve maybe lumped you unfairly due to first hand experience.

Unfortunately, with my sample size of 2, I have seen the Q-Anon stuff happening real time. Note that I’m not even in America! Both people are engineers. One is an Albanian living in London and I can’t even compute how he’s so wired in to it all. They don’t even know each other but are lockstep with all the COVID stuff they say, now even on to the anti-vaxx angle.
If you read up a bit on Naspers and Prosus. They have been trying to solve the discount problem. That’s the reason for Prosus being listed in Europe. Naspers is too big for South Africa’s stock market. It still is a bit too big.

Share buy backs and one or two other strategies are their next options along with the recent sale of some of Tencent to diversify. Like one strategy is for the two companies to exchange their stocks to own one another more. Own one another more.

SoftBank has a similar massive discount. I believe SoftBank is worth around as much as their Alibaba stake. While they also have stakes in T-Mobile US of around 8% (Tmobile market cap is $175B so that’s $14B) and 50% of Z Holdings (Yahoo Japan + LINE) which has a $30B market cap

One caveat to the T-Mobile stake is that U believe Deutsche Telekom is currently and can in the future buy back a considerable amount of Softbank’s shares. Perhaps at a discount. Nonetheless their stake is still going to be very sizeable.

So SoftBank is like Naspers and Prosus in that their market values and claim to fame and money rested on one moonshot. Now their valuations are awful.

SoftBank of course has other issues possibly with the founder and CEO and their vision fund but it was undervalued even five years ago.

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Another issue is what is the final value of those stakes. How would they get taxed etc. It is rare for big companies to have the majority (or even say 50%) of their value come from a stake in an unrelated company. I don’t think there are any other examples of this.

For related stakes. I think Deutsche Telekom is not worth much more than their T-Mobile US stake and they do more than just that.
> The dataset comprises imaging data that covers roughly one cubic millimeter of brain tissue, and includes tens of thousands of reconstructed neurons, millions of neuron fragments, 130 million annotated synapses, 104 proofread cells, and many additional subcellular annotations and structures.

On one hand it is interesting to know what percent of 130 million synapses changes on second by second bases. On another hand some believe and argue we can approximate human level dynamic behavior using GPT and a like models, in like 10 years :)
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I don't think this is going to work. Time is on the side of the attackers. All the attackers have to do is wait and repeatedly restate that they will fully restore operations if the victim pays a small fee and when losses grow large enough investors / shareholders will apply enough pressure to management to make it happen, whether it is legal or not. No one is going to eat massive losses for the greater good. There are plenty of policies against negotiating with kidnappers and terrorists, and yet people still do it for this exact reason.

Banning crypto exchanges is actually a much more effective solution to the problem because it at least forces someone to show up in person to collect the money.
Oh, I know it's entirely my fault for letting it be inactive and all, I'm not blaming them.

It IS unfortunate that there's both a fairly high barrier to entry AND apparently no real way to recover older accounts.

It's hard to justify the time investment to improving an existing answer on stackoverflow, when I've already posted it to Youtube and that's 95% of where I get my DIY education.

Backstory: SO has a post about this stove that has several people showing bad solders of one joint on a relay in the bowels of the stove (really, it took me and my son almost 2 hours to disassemble it to get to it). My video details disassembly, location, repair, and a quick reassembly. ~8 minutes of video. Sadly, people report most repair services just recommend you replace the whole stove, because replacement boards are ~$700, and you can't tell which of 3 boards until you've spent 2 hours on disassembly/reassembly. Most repair services aren't willing to re-solder a joint.

Here's the video I made, FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbxugIpIiS8
> I'm OK with this, as long as the terms are well-defined and there is some form of recourse or due process for cases of mistaken and/or abusive accusations.

What about mistaken and/or abusive applications of the process? What if you need protection, not from a student, but from an administrator?

> Should the school have the ability censure a student who posts openly hateful things on Twitter? I think they should; in my opinion, it's not different from shouting those hateful things at passersby on the campus lawn.

Twitter isn't the campus lawn. The campus lawn is university property; Twitter isn't.
I'm in the top 0.35%. For a while around 2010ish I was answering a lot of questions. I've barely even logged in in many years. I don't think the percentile is very useful. SO always tried so hard to find a way to assess devs and hopefully use that to spin up the jobs board side of the business, but I feel like despite a lot of effort it just never quite happened.
If you look at a slice of cortex under the microscope, there appear to be six physical layers (like a cake), owing to the different types, numbers, and arrangement of neurons in each.

Canonically, the cortex is built out of columns, each of which repeat the same motif. Within a cortical column, signals enter a cortical region through layer IV, 'ascend' to other cortical areas via Layers II and III, and project elsewhere in the brain via Layer V/VI. Layer I mostly contains passing fibers going elsewhere. There are also "horizontal" or lateral connections between and within columns.

This is sort of an abstraction though. It's often hard to clearly delineate the boundary between Layer II and III. Layer IV of primary visual cortex has many small sublayers (4C alpha), but it's very very small in others.
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Of course, they don't allow you to filter and/or sort on those ratings. Argh.
For more context to people, we have the universal approximation theorem for neural nets that basically says if a network is wide enough it can approximate anything (with at least 2 layers). So a lot of stuff was really wide. Then VGG[0] came out and showed that deep networks were very effective (along with other papers, things happen in unison. Leibniz and Newton). Then you get ResNets[1] with skip connections and move forward to today. Today we've started looking more at what networks are doing and where their biases lie. This is because we're running into some roadblocks with CNNs vs Transformers. They have different inductive biases. Vision transformers still aren't defeating CNNs, but they are close and it is clear they learn different things. So we're seeing more papers doing these types of analyses. ML will likely never be fully interpretable, but we're getting better at understanding. This is good because a lot of times picking your model and network architecture is more art than science (especially when choosing hyper parameters).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1556

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385
I love the celebration of all they've done! This is so great. Really well put together page. And I have no idea what the next big mystery is going to be. Exciting moment for software that's just gotten so so so so advanced over the years, that's really iterated & progressed consistently. Here's to ya'll!!

I feel like Blender3D 3.0 might perhaps be Blender 3^2D. Now with nine-dimensional hyper-editing!!
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yes, but people only seem to toss around terms like "imaginary internet points" or "fake points" when it comes to gamification of things that are inherently not games.

the point i'm making is that to the people playing them as games, the rewards are the points, there's nothing to take out. no one says i'm playing a video game for "imaginary videogame points" that cannot be taken out into the real world, they understand that the score is part of the intrinsic nature of the game.

i think people feel there is some intrinsic reward to participating in stackoverflow, or reddit, or whatever, and that people valuing the karma rather than (or even in addition to) the human interaction, or the satisfaction of helping others, are somehow doing it wrong - for them, the gamified aspect is an unnecessary and fake veneer over the intrinsic rewards of the site's core function. which i can definitely sympathise with, and there are absolutely venues in which i too opt out of gamification, or simply ignore that entire aspect of things, but i do not extend that to sneering at the people who do participate.
> It needs to be combined with some other physical protection measures, e.g. a tamper-proof case of some kind.

xboxes and iphones don't need tamper-proof cases.
I lived in a state that legalized marijuana, and police unions lost their minds over it. They lobbied for "reform" bills that would allow cops to arrest people, and specifically kids, for marijuana offenses.

Before legalization, one of the biggest reasons for arrests was marijuana offenses. Not only were police the biggest expenses on many towns' budgets, but many municipalities relied on revenue from those marijuana arrests to balance their own budgets. Now cops are scrambling to manufacture other victimless crimes in order to justify their budgets and compensation, as well as keeping their employers afloat.
Answering this in any detail would almost certainly dox myself, but I have a PhD in a hot topic that was nascent and not in vogue when I started, so my thesis work was immediately useful to lots of companies and there are very few other people who are experts in this niche. On top of that I have some deep industry background in a key application domain that, again, few other people with phds in my particular niche know anything about. (By deep I mean "hard earned knowledge about all the gritty details", not "spoke with a guy about it in the office once")

The topic is more popular now and funding agencies are starting to fund more graduate training in this area, so my current moat won't exist forever. But by then I'll have dug my current moat deeper, hopefully.
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> Let’s say hypothetically that a Texas-based Instrument and parts maker has a part, let’s say that part is something like a TPS65892 (revision AB), and like all parts that Electronics Engineers (EEs) select, needs to be kitted exactly to part number (TPS65892) and package (NFBGA 96). Normally parts vary by part number (I am pretty sure it’s why they’re called part numbers), but in rare instances (I can think of only one) that part is a completely different part if it is appended by what you normally would read as a revision number: TPS65892BB. In this example these are pin-matching parts that do completely different things and where all things work fine with the exception of charging the battery and providing USB connectivity. After a number of hours tracing schematics to board read values, this hunting manifested itself into a data sheet comparison where we learned these are unrelated parts.

Holy moly. I'm glad that I don't have to deal with that.

What is going on with that instrument maker?
Almost boiling, up to the point where the kettle really starts to make noise and bubbles are forming.

I just eyeball it honestly. You'll know when you poured the water too hot from the bitter taste :)
Only half. They gotta be miscounting. %75 minimum.
>The main avenue would be by getting rid of the sanctioned on/off ramps for crypto (that is, crypto exchanges), leaving only the illegal on/off ramps which I'm sure exist.

From what I've read it seems its only the stupidest of criminals who are using exchanges like Coinbase to cash out, because that's the easiest way to get caught.
fwiw, I use a third party app, and can't really imagine using the web-based interface or their official app.
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Even in case that is true - 1000 uses is about a year at 3 brews a day and my french press is still going strong after 15 years and I fail to see a reason why it wouldn't hold up another 15 years.

Do you have any sources on paper vs metal? It seems highly unlikely to me, that paper filters could be more environmentally friendly.
I find it interesting they compiled SpiderMonkey to WASM to run JS in its interpreter mode when it already has iOS support built-in via the interpreter. I would've thought all of the performance enhancements could be done without involving WASM at all. As far as I'm aware the only reason why Firefox for iOS doesn't use SpiderMonkey is App Store restrictions.
I feel like a checklist is just part of it. The truth is that a secure software development lifecycle needs to be taken seriously at every stage, and this costs a lot of money. During prototyping and requirements gathering you need to be setting security requirements, vetting planned dependencies, and prototyping things like authentication and authorization. Each design should include threat modeling and threat mitigations. Implementation time should include mandatory code review, static analysis and secure code checklists. Testing needs to include manual penetration testing and dynamic scanning. Finally, maintenance is another area where things fall apart. Who is going to handle patching? Who will be accountable in 4 years when that version of Tomcat is EOL? None of these things are trivial, and people that have the skills to execute on them are rare. Getting a company fully willing to spend the money and time on them is even rarer. I had an old boss who aptly said once "Security is a black hole where money goes to die".
> Most of our so-called leaders come from a completely different class than the rest of us, or were inducted into that class through their networks.

Yes. And some are not, and we could vote for them to give them more influence. I bet once that happens, even more of such people would come into politics.

> Unfortunately, you don't just have people voting for leaders; you have leaders pushing propaganda to influence thought patterns to make people vote for whomever has the most resources, and alternative voices are pushed off the stage before most people have a chance to change their minds.

Speaking for Germany (and I believe it is the same in many European countries), I don't see that. I don't see manipulation and propaganda on that level, and I do, for example, see quite a lot of good journalism providing good information.

Of course there's wild theories going around on social media and influencing people in really bad ways, but that's just people telling lies to other people, not a lot of the classic elite/leaders there.

> those with the most power aren't absolved just because the voters give them their value

I absolutely agree. That's why its so depressing that we do not vote such people out.
For the first call maybe, but then with the cache ?
I also remember the "Days Before Stack Overflow" and you're not giving Joel (et al) enough credit. It's not like there wasn't any information on the web; it's just that it wasn't anywhere near as organized or as complete as what you can find today on SO. And what you definitely couldn't be sure of is that you'd ever get an answer to a new question if you couldn't already find it somewhere else. SO really did change that overnight.
Ah yes, because social security is literally Stalinism.
It doesn't cause the exact same decay because the original comment was about lots of things, whereas the response was just about the flamebait. The original comment was also about the article, whereas the response was a meta leap into flames of poison. That's a noticeable decay rate.

That said, the GP comment was also a bad post for HN and I've posted a scolding here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27373460.
In theory all software is coded using a "many by default" approach. So every time batching matters, we take those batching opportunities automatically due to the way software is coded.

In practice we only batch when it starts hurting. It doesn't hurt to delete files one by one on a normal file system. It's made for that. So the API wasn't "many by default" and that's how it works for zip files as well.
Wouldn't increasing your labor costs by 400% outweigh whatever benefit you gain in reducing reported injury rates?
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I was motivated to change some of the sillier rules that I knew could bite me in the butt, like the rules around putting up seasonal decorations and allowing garbage bins to be out for more than 24 hours. I had a friend who also sat on a completely different HOA board as president and he mentored and enabled my success in many ways (His neighborhood and board was over 2x the size of mine and offered many more benefits). My neighborhood was 238 households (single family homes), 2 playgrounds, 2 large common areas for cookouts, 2 entrances and a single pool. My HOA collected $450 dollars yearly from every household to maintain all of the above and threw 4 community parties yearly.

That said, is there something specific you wanna chat about?
Another similar and good article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
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> California has a homelessness problem (largely a side effect of economic success without sufficient redistribution driving housing costs out of reach of the poor, like most states with above average homelessness — Vermont is the most noteworthy exception, with above-median homelessness without elevated housing prices.)

It's simply that California's strategy for economic success was that everyone bought homes in the 70s, then banned any new homes so their property values would go up forever. This makes the supply low enough that their own children will end up homeless even if there wasn't immigration from other states.
Traffic deaths in CO were up 3% last year: https://kdvr.com/news/local/colorado-traffic-related-deaths-...

CO population increased by 15% in the last decade: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/color...

It seems like it'd be really hard to defend the claim that the death rate (which isn't per-mile-driven, so lacks the context to actually evaluate it meaningfully) is growing "much faster" than the population.
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1. He originally submitted the question using his real name before quickly changing his user name to "frosty." Oops, too late.

2. Forensic testimony in the complaint asserted Silk Road used this method and in fact used code identical to that in the answer.

3. Silk Road server encryption was signed with Frosty@Frosty.

#2 and #3 were evidentiary, but #1 is what tied everything to a real person's name.