skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But nothing here is cryptographically proven. Remote attestation ala Intel SGX is an opaque black box that comes down to trusting Intel.

I think most people would prefer no voting machine software at all, seeing how most people can not "verify that the machine is really running the code it is supposed to run" but can indeed verify a paper ballot.

And of course signing a huge code bundle is the farthest possible thing from "run exactly the software you think it runs". Console manufacturers keep learning that. You really wanted to run that WebKit version that turned out to instead be a generic code execution widget? Think again.
For a job that needs to access 100's of thousands of small files, the ability to read the meta data quickly is very important.

This is the wider issue with small files. On HDFS each file uses up some namenode memory, but if there are jobs that need to touch 100k+ files (which I have seen plenty of), that puts a real strain on the Namenode too.

I have no experience with S3 to know how it would behave in terms of metadata queries for lots of small objects.
Why can’t we have both? General-purpose computers for whatever-we-want, and single purpose devices from a trusted source which we can be more confident are untampered with?
“Green energy” needs fossile fuels such as natural gas as backup power plants.

If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.

France went the nuclear path and their energy sector causes 50 million tons of CO2 per year.

Germany went the renewable path and their annual energy sector emissions are about 300 million tons of CO2.

They were a bit less in both countries due to Covid-19 causing shutdowns of industries.
For the average alien, yes. For the average alien species, no.
I remember reading about Larry Page spending time developing a book scanner using a scanner and a hoover to turn pages
I'm looking at the graph, and in 2019 the text editor popularity combined was a whooping 117%!
OK. What about non-G7 nations?
Maybe these are just a bunch of coincidences, but I have a feeling that GitHub is being poorly run recently. Apart from quite frequent uptime issues, it seems that Github Actions is pretty half-baked and they completely botched the migration of Dependabot (for example, take a look at this issue and especially, how it was handled: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/3253)
Which is why every trusted computing platform with free software on it should have an owner override. (The total count of such platforms is, as far as I know, unfortunately zero.)
The EU constitution was approved in half the referendums that were held. Also, opposing a concrete constitution does not mean opposing European unification in general.
Ask HN: Why is Google Deepmind's AlphaZero not available to play against online?
Thanks for replying GlanFabien.

Trying to mirror what you'd see in a production system but on a home/non-cloud rig.
That is not the only point he is making - he is saying that if they had known Apple would be changing terms in the future to harm Spotify's interest, they would have thought twice before releasing an app for the ios platform and add value to it. His valid point is that it is apps, like his and many others, that also really added value to the ios platform. But Apple is now ignoring that factor and pretending as if Apple is solely responsible for making ios an attractive platform for users, and so thinks it can dictate terms as it wants.

Let's not forget that the reason the Windows Mobile platform died was because no developers cared for it. And others like Tizen OS or Sailfish OS struggle now with the same problem.

Apple should be happy that idiot developers are willing to pay it $100 every year (which is also too high and should be a one time fee in my opinion), rather than trying to gauge its developers for money it doesn't even deserve. It also screws their users because ultimately the developer passes on the Apple Tax to the user.
If the COVID vaccine had a 1 to 10 chance of getting run over by a truck, I’d still take it. There’s a 10 in 10 chance of heart failure from stress eating peanut butter if I had to stay inside for extended periods of time.
Trying to work out how many bits the seed has, but it depends on the browsers implementation of Math.random() - in theory could be anything but apparently its usually Xorshift128+, which as far as I can tell has a 128 bit seed. So all good? Although I'm not sure where the 128 bits for the seed come from.

https://hackernoon.com/how-does-javascripts-math-random-gene...
> Destructive scanning feels incredibly cruel to the books.

I suppose it depends on whether it has sentimental value. When I was young, I'd treat my books like treasures, putting covers on them (even paperbacks), making sure I didn't crease the spine when I read them. Now I consider books to be a temporary store of knowledge as the contents pass to my brain. I fold pages, underline, scribble notes in them. There are thousands more copies out there, I don't feel any need to baby my copy.
I think the main problem is piling up the estimates. If I use anthropic reasoning to conclude that I am from an extremely populous country like India, I am wrong, but 2 billion Chinese and Indian people would be right, and the majority of people making the estimation would in fact be from larger than average countries

But if someone starts drawing conclusions like "due to the correlation between population size and landmass, it is therefore unlikely any country is more than 20% larger than mine", there is a 98% chance they are not Russian and therefore incorrect (and there is a 100% chance that their country is dwarfed by either population or landmass by some other country). The probability of them being the largest country is roughly the same as the probability of them being from a small island group like the UK or Japan

If the principle falls apart when applied to the human populations whose population density relationships its estimated from, how can we assert 95% certainty that the circumference of planets supporting very different civilisations will be no more than 20% greater than Earth?
I have a QMK 34 key keyboard, with lots of layers, combos, tap-olds and things, but it doesn't provide nearly as much as a modal editor does.

Select inside a block? Comment out a region? Jump to line X? Jump Y lines up? Go-to definition? Autocomplete? Insert snippet? Even a simple thing as delete the next two words or jump to next "f"?

I think the issue is that you don't grok vim.
TPM-based remote attestation doesn't involve SGX at all. If Boot Guard is enabled then you're trusting the ACM to perform its measurements correctly, but that's a not overly large amount of code that can be disassembled and verified.
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Doesn't look like it, unless the status-page update is also affected :)

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
Really depends on your setup.

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Pretty much every x86 system with a TPM and UEFI Secure Boot can have the secure boot keys swapped out by the owner.
The tricky part with modifications is described in the article: You would have to have the signing key available on the system which usually means it could be extracted from that system and then looses all protections.
On the topic of speakers here, does anyone here feel like the Cinema does not offer the audio experience advertised? I've been to old cinemas and brand new cinemas with Dolby Atmos yet in each of them the audio is just absolute ass. Is this just my local cinemas or is this a common experience?

You'd think that a cinema would know how to tune their speaker set up correctly. Yet even at a brand new cinema the audio is just blown out in loud scenes. Like they've got the speakers turned up too high.
I would bet on it being related to their identity server. It seems to almost work in browser(s) where I was signed on - but in a new browser, it gives HTTP 500 after SSO.
> In production I normally see people building production images and spinning up them up in their cloud with Terraform and whatever other infrastructure they need

I see a stark difference between infra management tool (like Terraform), and deploy tooling. Infra I prefer to describe "declarative", and Terraform helps a lot with that. Deplyments are "imperative" in nature to me: turn on maintenance page, remove cluster X, spin up cluster Y, run migrations, etc.

So I find Terraform a bad fit for deployment tooling (please explain if you disagree, I'd like to learn).
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It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN
Cue the age old argument chain about outsourcing responsibility vs having control of downtimes.

I’m tired of them now, anyone using hosted solutions should know this by now and they’ve made that choice.

Personally I believe people underestimate how easy it is to host your own services.

But I’m sick of having the conversation over and over, if people aren’t willing to investigate then, what’s the saying: “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink”
I ended up reverting to Firefox 88, losing my profile:

- downloaded Firefox 88 at: <https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/relea...> (Windows)

Install, accept Create new Profile". Then immediately:

- check "Check for updates but let you choose to install them".

- uncheck "Use a background service to install updates"
This is a classic case of somewhat-unintended consequences. When the GPL was first published, authors assumed developers would actually read it, and provided the recommended notice as a customizable template. Instead, developers just blindly copypasted, because "who's got time to read, amirite?". And then somebody actually woke up to the "or later" clause when the tivoization debate happened, and started accusing this and that of nefarious intent.
The current consumerist economy is based on scarcity.

Green energy (by definition, sustainable) should be anything but scarce, and therefore would allow "weaker" countries to be more self-reliant.

This will never be allowed by countries that want to keep their "G"-whatever denomination
My first contact with CSS back in the days: http://www.csszengarden.com
I think OpenLayers had come up as an option back then, but Leaflet was just easy to adopt, I guess.
> ...as they continue to build a dystopian new world order where only they control everything you can do with your own hardware

Well, the new M1 computers have a built-in ability to run third-party OSes. It is not an oversight but rather something Apple intended to do and spend effort implementing in a way that fits their security model. That they did not provide any hardware documentation to go with it, is another thing.
I wonder why haven't they used aluminum instead of steel. The Cosmic Muffin is doing fine even after many years

https://mikeshouts.com/plane-boat-cosmic-muffin/
self hosted won't insulate you from your VCS instance failing.
I used to work at a medium-sized company with Gitlab 8 years ago, it was running into several issues and required frequent maintenance.
Does it affect self-hosted runners as well?
Maybe a good elm-to-purescript transpiler, that couples with the framework this post links to, is all we need :)
A shame they removed all their uptime graphs on the status page, since it's much harder to get a read on things now.

However, scrolling back through the status page's history for the last year shows that there between 6 and 12 incidents every month, and it often hovers at the high end of that range.

That has to be an utter misery for anyone who's on call.
> For example, the Swiss pension system is similar to others in Europe, where the current working population pay taxes almost directly towards pensions of the retired. Since this system will break down if taxes aren't increased like crazy or pensions lowered, politicians have been trying to change the system. But there are too many people soon to be retired or already retired that care less about their country's youth and future than their own pension, so they keep blocking changes. So every democratic system has its tradeoffs...

Other European countries (not all) have similar pension systems that you describe, with same problems, and even though they don't have the Swiss direct democracy, they have been equally unable to change their systems.
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> health obsessions also run deep in that country, gym memberships, elite universities with sports programs full of money

Doing elite sport in those competitive teams is not all that much healthy. It is tangential to your main point, but top level leagues are not in opposition to un-health.
The healthy thing is moderate amount of sport, where you get yourself to improve performance, but don't push yourself to limit. Cheap casual sport that dont require gym membership but provides some social outlet would be better for average person health.

> How many weird diet fads start basically in the US? Self-help books, alternative gurus, etc.

None of that is healthy and a lot of that contributes to obesity issue. Fad diets lead to yoyo-ing and to weight gain in the long term. It also causes proper health issues on its own.
A 1080 Ti is not a mobile GPU. Mobile GPUs have the “m” suffix. You just happen to have a (probably underclocked) desktop GPU in your laptop.
The whole state is immune so it is not possible to handle state change locally in a sub-component. The parent component that embeds it needs to call it and place a new updated component state into a new whole state. But then the parent needs to know which events go into the component. The messages nicely allow for that.

Besides already mentioned ability to serialize messages it also allows to preprocess or filter messages in the parent.
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If you can breed plants to make their own pesticide, why use techniques like CRISPR? If you can't why pretend GMOs are the same selective breeding?

If the pesticides stay in the plant, you're asking customers to eat a lot of pesticides. Are you sure they're safe? You can't wash them off after all. If they don't then they'll leak into the soil and kill it just like externally provided pesticides won't they?

I am unconvinced by the case for GMOs (in case you hadn't guessed :)). But questioning it isn't anti-science. Quite the opposite: it should be A-OK to make all the points above. The fact that I will be down voted for doing so sort of demonstrates my concern: no one is questioning this tech because doing so is "antiscience" and unexamined changes are almost always bad...

As something of a "peace offering", "look I can be reasonable" closing point, I like ideas like Golden Rice, created to have improved nutritional content. I am not blanket opposed. I just don't think opposition is always fear mongering or that the usual points in support for more GMOs hold much water...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
It's listed as Prior Art on JSX's Github

https://facebook.github.io/jsx/#prior-art
Evaluating whether something is likely to be true is not the same thing as evaluating whether something is true.

If I'm in a windowless room and don't know whether it's raining outside, I might assume based on the season that it is more or less likely to be currently raining.

That does not mean that if I actually look outside in the middle of summer, I won't believe my eyes if I see raindrops.
And three days ago they were still saying they were on the brink of going bust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329890

This couldn't be a more transparent attempt by rasengan to brandwash and buy his way into FOSS.
My personal outcome on this is that I am afraid to touch React after some time or some number of other devs were working on the codebase, while with Elm I’m not afraid to take over a large codebase that was written by someone else. This is very anecdotally and is my personal taste, but I totally stand by it and am having one of these experience right now.
Turkey isn't allowed to join in part because democracy is a shared value of the EU. In fact there are mechanisms to suspend the membership of a country that regressed into authoritarianism, they just don't work.
I first interpreted it as a puny way to advertise some improved github issue tracker
Since most CI systems pull code from Github, it impacts other CI providers as well.
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The article is a summary of an analysis and I can’t find the analysis linked in it. I don’t know why or how journalists find this an acceptable practice.
In my head the greatest drunks are USA, South Africa, Russia, Sweden, England. The numbers involved in these countries are mind boggling. Not purely based on country-wide numbers, but based on binge drinking behaviours, quantities involved at parties, and destruction that follows.

The problem I have with it all, drunk people tend to affect other things: destroying public property, drunk driving (destruction of private property and death (sometimes death of sober people at wrong place, wrong time)) fights and injury (go check what an EC/ER looks like on a Friday night for hospitals in these countries), domestic violence, rape, animal abuse, emotional drunk spirals (can lead to suicide or relationship damage), financial destruction (lemme buy all you fine oaks 100 shots on my tab)..the list goes on.

Nah, skip alcohol if you can. I makes small men feel like strong men, and strong men feel like small men and creates a vicious cycle to cope with those false emotions, resulting erratic/impulsive/dangerous behaviours. Rather meditate, go to bed early, use cannabis (not daily) and make sandwich.. I've not seen a single instance where alcohol has improved someones life, mentally or physically. Alcohol is a false remedy that fills your hearts and minds with a false view of the world. Step away for a while.

Same goes for streaming/internet consumption, tv/news, caffeine, nicotine, porn, fast foods, religion, politics. All those things blend into a horrible mindset. Step away, introspect and modify your own behaviour/culture, reflect about who/what you are. It's a worthwhile experiment and costs nothing (in fact, it will save you time and money).
Sure, you can prefer paper ballots, but that's just one example.

The reason I bring it up is that one of the benefits of open source that is often mentioned is the ability to verify that it does what you think it's doing. Doesn't matter whether it's a voting machine, a self driving system or an ATM or whatever. It's still good for open source to have the capability to do this kind of proving in cases where you want it.
Theoretical explanation for observed reactions: Lemma 1: alien topic is like religion, not a great amount of data, but very high stakes. Lemma 2: There's a lot of intellectual "soccer mums" on HN eager to find an outlet for their unrealized (?) intellectual prowess. Corollary: Alien topic seems like fair game, because low risk associated to bring wrong, and hard to disprove with facts or experts. Theory: this topic manifold provides attractive attachment site for brains looking to engage in intellectual proving games and leads to lots of low signal comments intended to make others wrong to achieve a sense of being right. It will take HN some time to adopt the correct posture to discuss leading edge questions in areas with lots of ambiguity. QED.

But this theory shouldn't be controversial at all: A random sample taken from any distribution is more than likely to be representative of that distribution. It's a basic idea but I like how he's illustrated it here with lots of examples and connected it to the alien notion. Meaning it leads to a good insight. Namely why most described encounters of aliens detail beings that are a lot like ourselves. The so-called five star pattern: a head, two arms, two legs. And hands with fingers.

In fact the ideas advanced in this essay are so fundamental they're like informational entropy or enthalpy/thermodynamics in that they are basic but insightful and sometimes counterintuitive principles that advanced reasoners can use to figure about the world. I wish more people knew of them.

I'm so blown away by this essay. in a limit sense I think this type of reasoning represents the best that you can possibly do starting from a position of ignorance. And as essay says that position is the safest one to start at. Sure you can apply a bunch of priors and constraints to limit the variations of different populations to what you think is right but really in this topic those things are just distortions. so the conclusions arrived at in this paper I think are in the limit sense the best that you can possibly do from the intellectually honest position of almost totally ignorance about this.

it's telling that so many people want to instinctively reject this and instead blindly impose their own priors while being blissfully unaware that's exactly what they're doing, resisting the general purpose conclusions of this essay and trying to pass off their own beliefs as truth.
Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D