skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Transferwise, which is now known as Wise to pay people outside of the US for years. For inside the US I'm using Quickbooks. Other then liking their original name better I can't really say anything bad about Wise.

While not as quick as a crypto transfer, wise is remarkably fast when comparing it to the US banking system at least. The person you're paying does need a wise account and their banking details entered in it, but beyond that the funds are ACH'd out of my account and converted to their own local currency and deposited directly into their bank accounts.

It does look like they have an api [1] too though as I only have two people I'm paying with it I've always just entered it manually.

[1] https://api-docs.wise.com/#wise-platform-api
Second Dump of Fauci Emails
This is not the email dump from the other day - this is a brand new email dump from ICAN.

Direct download:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/e7wi0lqjd1d5lcx/Combined_Fauc...
How We Ship Fast at Replit
> we managed to max out the SALT deduction

We can all thank the Trump "tax cuts" for that.

> It truly is (partially) additive.

On that portion of your income. I reiterate what I said earlier. To have an actual effective 50% tax rate, you need to be earning well over $1m. That's not "easy" or a typical case.
Thanks for posting this link. I was curious about a, b and d:

>"(a) IDT itself is a horrible nasty format and you shouldn't have to parse memory in odd ways to handle exceptions. It was fundamentally bad from the 80286 beginnings, it got a tiny bit harder to parse for 32-bit, and it arguably got much worse in x86-64."

What is it about IDT that requires parsing memory in odd ways? What is odd about it?

>"(b) %rsp not being restored properly by return-to-user mode."

Does anyone know why this is? Is this a historical accident or something else?

>"(d) several bad exception nesting problems (NMI, machine checks and STI-shadow handling at the very least)"
Is this one these two exceptions are nested together or is this an issue when either one of these is present in the interrupt chain? Is there any good documentation on this?
LOL just got kicked out of  @ycombinator
Nowadays would be but these were far simpler times
You might know beforehand.

Your employer might have the whole intranet.employer.tld within the VPN. And everything within that network resolves to some 10.8.0.0/8 address.
I clicked the link on my phone and it started pulling down a 50MB zip.

Not a chance it was 50MB back in the early 2000s, nobody would have downloaded it. I remember balking at installing a 13MB shareware from a magazine demo disc.
I know it's silly but I actually have some pretty fond childhood memories of Bonzi Buddy. Me and my cousin installed it on the family computer (running Windows ME at the time!) and would use the text-to-speech feature to make it say crazy, usually profanity-laden, things. In retrospect it was obvious adware / malware but not as bad as some of the other junk that would end up on your PC back in those days. The litany of Internet Explorer toolbars that would hijack your start page and embed HTML on any page you viewed comes to mind.

Some other nostalgic software experiences from this era: chatting with friends and customizing your away message / profile on AIM and ICQ, downloading unreleased System of a Down songs from KaZaA, playing Ultima Online until the sun came up, Flash games and animations on Newgrounds and the overall vibe of the Internet at the time - message boards, 1337speak, animated GIFs and embedded MIDI everywhere. I miss it and don't at the same time.
Yup. Not only do you have to be a US Citizen, but you also have to be on US soil. So if you're on vacation internationally? Can't make that change.

AWS takes that stuff very seriously.
Lifeproof used to make an add-on life jacket that fit around their cases.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=lifeproof+case+life+jacket&...
Similar discussions in Lithuania: lots of companies that claimed state aid due to Covid went on to purchase supercars, boats, etc.
...not what the author of this article expects, in my opinion.

(the viability of the Microsoft developer ecosystem, despite its' attempts to clamber onto the open source bandwagon, will continue to degrade thanks to free market economics, zero-cost-of-copy, and the fact that the FOSS community eventually fills any technology gaps that appear. Many within that ecosystem will continue to deny this, and they have a few more years -- perhaps a decade -- or so where that will be a workable strategy)
Most APIs I’ve encountered expose stunning amounts of implementation details, and/or are less stable over time than the visual presentation.

Of course, there are counter-examples, but if there’s no strong business reason to make the API clean and stable over time, it’s unlikely to happen. Also, for many companies, there are strong financial motivations to obfuscate the API.
YUV is a linear transformation of RGB to the best of my knowledge. Wikipedia seems to agree.
What the Supreme Court Opinion in Van Buren Means for Web Scraping
Where is this a crime? Dashcams are generally not illegal.
This seems to be a mostly inflammatory blog post over a FOSS project changing the license after the fact (which they can do, as it is both their Copyright, but also ASL2 licensed).

I scanned through the comments on the blog, most of this just seems to be people being angry that they already accepted a FOSS license in good faith, as did Microsoft, and Microsoft has no current plans on switching to a fork (as there is no popular fork yet, this just happened).

People are also misreading the announcement, I think. They cannot take away ASL2 software once it is licensed as such, and they cannot make you pay for it. They can make you pay for their closed source fork of it, but they cannot make you switch to that fork.

Their announcement says that they will continue to synchronize with the open source original until late 2022, so everyone should adjust their deps to pull in the original, not the closed source fork. Everyone has until 2022 to figure out how to continue the project safely and without interference.
I would imagine a shader that converts YUV to ARGB at the time of rendering as opposed to storing it all the way along the pipeline as 32 bit integers.

It's a bit tricky because rendering pipelines composite the final image through many layers of offscreen compositing before the pixel hits the screen.

The core issue is that the offscreen composited layers would still be 32bit textures which is a bigger issue. I would imagine a Skia-based draw list to encode this through the pipeline which could help preserve this perhaps.
Clojure precedes Java 8.
TSM signs 10-year, $210M naming rights deal with crypto exchange FTX
This is a good point in general but I don’t think it actually applies here. I don’t know why people keep acting like taking this seriously required believing a word of anything out of Trumps mouth. That isn’t how it went.

Some folks who never supported Trump had their own reasons to examine this. They talked about it, and everyone assumed they got the idea from Trump, and therefore not only did they deserve no attention, but they also deserve no respect, and outright career sabotage by folks like Peter Daszak and to a lesser extent, Anthony Fauci. Many had to work on this in secret because the hyper partisans wouldn’t listen to them, and instead tried to attack them just for talking about it. Take a look at Yuri Deigin and Alina Chan on twitter and go back in their timelines to see how long they have been digging into this.

My hope is not that anyone acknowledges that Trump was correct, although I would view it as a sign of integrity if they did. But whether he was or wasn’t, and whether he got lucky or actually knew something, I don’t care. The real issue comes not from Trump, but their own prejudice, which many are still trying to make excuses for, made them so blind to what, in hindsight, is actually extremely obvious as the most likely explanation. Then they took it further and let their blind hate for Trump also caused them to hate half of their fellow citizens, and they extended that hate to anyone who they even perceived as having thoughts tangentially related to something Trump said.

I could easily come up with probably 5 more examples of something very similar that happened in his orbit that people who only follow left leaning mainstream news have no idea about, or that were spun into complete anti-trump lies by the media and are still believed by people today.

The media are absolutely full of shit. All of them. Real journalism died, hyper partisan “woke” activists have been graduating and taking writing jobs, groupthink and cult-like behavior has amplified, and the executives loved the sky high ratings and revenue they got for being anti-trump. Cancel culture further reinforced this culty groupthink and forced moderate voices out. Hell, people actually try to say Glenn Greenwald went right-wing crazy. Glenn Greenwald! They don’t even realize that it wasn’t him who changed, it was them.

It’s pervasive in tech. People are actually pro-censorship now. And they have convinced themselves that they are the good guys. It’s hard to believe how far we have fallen from rationality in such a short time.
The CFAA is a law about how you access systems, so this ruling defines "authorization" under the CFAA as "had legitimate access to this system" only.

There are many other laws that you can still be charged with that govern what you access, irrespective of how, ie copyright, child porn, confidential information.

The people who view this as a win are worried that if "authorization" is defined as "against any rule, made by anyone" then the CFAA could be used to criminalize almost anything online. Note that restriction of the CFAA does not let you off the hook of other laws.

The people who worry about this are worried that judges had to use a fair bit of extrapolation and guessing as to the intent and effects of the law because the wording is pretty vague, and probably problematic for internet activity if interpreted very narrowly.
I made a game console on an embedded system. The magic when you actually bitbang pixels to a screen and you see that first image is breathtaking.
To make it justice has to be seen this way:
https://i.imgur.com/bGP9oKf.jpg
GNS3 probably
How to build conversion tables from event logs
I started dabbling with elixir in 2017. The platform is phenomenal in terms of performance and the preciseness you can write code with.

The pains I've seen are

- thinking everything in a "functional" way

- ide support

- the library ecosystem, though rich in selection, could use some more help.

Functional thinking becomes easier the more time you spend on it.
I've recently solved the ide part with VSCode and ElixirLS. I use Docker and I'm able to get all interpretation and dynamic compiling along with suggestions, warnings using the VSCode Remote Containers plug in.

Overall, the platform seems to be growing and it is great to see big players taking some steps here.
Do you remember Alice? The chat bot?
In a free society, the default is that anything not forbidden is permitted.
Maybe this is a naive question: but I remember growing up there was a hard and fast rule that you could not have magnets anywhere near your technology, is this not the case anymore?

Was it only floppy-disks and disk based tech which had issues?
Beej's Guide to Network Programming is a classic: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
It’s not about the techniques used, it’s about the intent of the functions. Remember that we’re in the legal domain and sometimes a common sense argument prevails even if there are some potential holes (if a hole is discovered, a future court case can worry about it). Port scanning is like looking at the outside of a house and noting where the doors and windows are. Brute forcing a password is like picking a lock to gain access to something, or possibly identity theft to authenticate yourself as someone else. Judges can easily understand the difference even if the technical method might be similar. Nobody is going to believe you “port scanned” your way into someone’s online banking access and took money out of their account.
You can't texel-fetch directly from JPEG data, it has to be decompressed first.
Let's say on average you need to see one hundred ads before you see something you want to buy. Now if you had personalized ads, maybe on average you need to see ten ads before you want to buy something.

If you are already looking through a bunch of ads for the sole purpose of trying to buy something, then your personal data is valuable to you because it saves you time. But that's definitely not the situation with most big tech products.
> the iPhone survived

They had a lot better chance of success since it was fresh water, vs if it had fallen in the ocean...
You have made a tautology. It's moot. Coercion isn't all about carrots.
Counting anything is hard, so I prefer to develop a feel for it, if you can.

Cut the obvious junk. Cook more for yourself, with more focus on vegetables. Don't worry about trying to limit yourself; just aim for sensible foods. Try that alone for a few months, and see if your weight stabilizes and declines a little, which it should.

If that works, you can start substituting more processed stuff, as a treat or convenience. There you can look at calories or macros to help: "Ok, I was going to eat dinner, which is ordinarily around 800-1000 calories. This frozen pizza is... holy crap!" Have it anyway; you just know what it means now.

Overall, what I recommend is not to go on a restrictive diet, but to start eating for the weight you wish to be, and plan to remain there forever. (If you're a lot overweight, you may need to do that in stages.) A lot of people want to diet and then switch to a maintenance phase. I think it's better to go directly to maintenance, and let that asymptotically lower your weight. You suffer less and thus bounce back less.

But that's just my $.02. This is all brain stuff; whatever persuades you to eat right and exercise is good.
It’s possible there were several versions of this. Maybe some sources injected malware and not others.
I thought he was working on AGI
It works with the call gates. You could have a sort of nested microkernel idea if it wasn't such a mess with each ring able to include the lower privileged ring's address spaces. And not just a free for all, but the kernel really is just the control plane, but can set up all sorts of per process descriptor tables (the LDTs).

So you'd have a tiny kernel at ring 0 which could R/W everything but wasn't responsible for much.

Under that you'd have drivers at ring 1 that can't see the kernel, but can R/W user code at rings 2 and 3.

Under that you'd have system daemons at ring 2 that can R/W regular programs but not drivers or the kernel.

And then under that you had regular processes at ring 0 that have generally the same semantics as today's processes.

Each process of any ring can export a syscall like table through the call gates, and so user code could directly invoke drivers or daemons without going throught the kernel at all. Basically IPC with about the same overhead as a C++ virtual method call.

So what happened? The exact underlying semantics didn't exactly match many OSs anyone wanted to build (particularly OSs that anyone cared about in the late 80s early 90s). And you can enforce similar semantics all in software with the exception of the cheap IPC anyway.
The mods respond to emails (contact link in the footer) about observed issues, so that’s always an option if y’all think something needs a human revisit and there’s no site button for it.
They are so thin-skinned and cancellation happy when it comes to their own reputation.
I agree that it's not heroic since the rat has no real conception of what it's doing. I was curious after reading your comment what the mortality rate among mine detecting rats was.

This organization says that none of their rats have ever died as a result of their detection work. As I understand it the rats are too light to detonate the mines. Their role is just to detect them and they don't have to worry about accidental detonation.

That makes sense if you think about it. If these mines were the kind of thing that could be detonated by a curious rodent, they probably wouldn't have lasted so long in rural areas.

That's another reason not to call the rats heroic. There is no real hardship for them in this work. They explore and smell and get a reward when they find something. I'd bet it may be better than a wild life, though a moral ideal might be letting the rats choose to work or not. (I wouldn't suggest actually doing that, since I think the forced labor of rats is a small price to pay to save human lives, but ideally the rats would be employees rather than slaves)

https://www.apopo.org/en/herorats/faqs
Social media manipulation is a tricky problem. I'm sure HN has plenty of active measures against various types of abuse and manipulation, and I'm sure they can't tell us about them, because the people doing that read HN too.

Plenty of orgs are surely trying to do that actively for all sorts of reasons. No idea how successful they are, probably tough to tell.

The spookiest thing of all is that most of the effect might be genuine grassroots action. Picture a Chinese Nationalist poster here, genuinely independent tech enthusiast and happens to know enough English to participate in an English forum. Perhaps they are genuinely annoyed by what they see as westerners meddling in their internal politics, which there is a long history of. Perhaps they flag what they see as clickbaity stories likely to lead to a bunch of China-bashing out of genuine annoyance. They don't need to be paid or leaned on by the CCP at all, they just actually feel that way.

Dammit, now I sound too apologetic about it. Sigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research

In 2017 a University of Zurich report on media in Switzerland analyzed "six of the most-discussed 'alternative media'", including SPR, that "resort to conspiracy theories." Daniel Vogler concluded that SPR appears to be a "a pseudoscientific media research project."
It was John Oliver, great episode by the way.
https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1382
Yeah, there are not many moving parts now. It messed with read heads in HDDs as well as CRT monitors.

I still get nervous if there are magnets around cause I don't know how they work.
I think you are missing the “according to me” (the person you are working for) part of the sentence.

In this thought experiment, like the rat, you have no say in what constitutes being treated “well enough.”
Indeed but that's also true for RGB (which is typically sRGB on computers) and you can have linear YUV if you want. "RGB" and "YUV" can really mean a whole bunch of things. There are many RGBs and probably twice as many YUV due to the hell that's video standards.

I'm not sure I understand where Carmack is coming from here though (am I missing some context? I don't use twitter and these threads are always a huge pain for me to follow especially since Carmack doesn't even bother breaking on full sentences). I don't get how processing in YUV instead of RGB has anything to do with 10bit components for instance.

Also, in my experience most video software deals with YUV natively and only converts as needed. It's probably different in the gaming and image processing world but that's because everything else is RGB and it seems to be a big ask to just tell everybody to convert to YUV.

Besides if quality is of the essence, you will typically store more that 10 bits for internal processing, probably 16 and maybe even floats if you want to have as much range as possible.

I dunno, I won't pretend that I'm smarter than Carmack, but I wish there was a bit more context because it's a bit opaque for me at the moment.
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JPEG uses Y'CbCr, not YUV per se. The matrix transformation is applied to gamma-encoded R'G'B' (typically sRGB), not linear RGB.

http://poynton.ca/PDFs/YUV_and_luminance_harmful.pdf
They didn't. This is a mirror.
I stopped for a good while, but I've recently started reading again. The Box, by Marc Levinson, was a really interesting read about the development of containerized/intermodal transport. I also liked People Must Live By Work, by Steven Attewell, which covers the history of direct job creation policy in the US from the Depression to Reagan.
I think OS/2 used every feature x86 had, including call gates and at least 3 privilege levels (0, 2, 3). That is why OS/2 is such a good test for any aspiring x86 emulator developer.
I agree. I don't know that skill growth can be provided by "mentorship". At most, I think mentorship can provide (or is perhaps conflated with providing) direction & guidance.

I've never been in the situation where someone can magically grow my skills for me, or download information into my brain for me.

Sure, there's exposure to ideas regarding programming frameworks, ways of doing things, system design ideas to receive from colleagues & supervisors. And communication & leadership knowledge & experience gained as well.
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If I had a dollar for every American I've seen working at the same companies that was spending $800+ a month for healthcare insurance coverage for themselves, their spouse, their two kids... And then over the course of a year probably a few-thousand in "co-pays" for doctors visits and minor things where the insurance doesn't pay 100% of the doctor visits. And then they still would have a $8,000+ deductible for many categories of expensive medical costs per year, if they ever have to use it, before full coverage kicks in.

I am fortunate enough that my spouse has her own very good medical coverage and we do not have kids, so our monthly outlays are somewhat less.

If you consider that $800 to be equivalent to a tax, the person's take home net income was actually less than if they were an equivalent-of-a-W2 employee in Canada or another place with a social healthcare system.
The US government is the largest employer in the US, and Amazon is one of the largest private employer. Literally millions in the former, 100's of thousands in the later.

There will be considerable crossover.
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Did Trump steal Occam’s Razor when he left the White House?
'All the tests most students take their whole lives are at least as bad, including, most spectacularly of all, the test that gets them into college.'

If the SAT were so easily hackable by using the right test-taking techniques, rich parents would have hired tutors to teach their children the tricks, rather than paying people to actually take tests for them, which caused several famous people to go to jail.
GP means why it hasn't kept up with fundamentals of the host language, Java 8 was released in 2014.