skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> attackers may control peripherals to perform malicious memory accesses via DMA [19]. Side-channel attacks [20],
[21], [22], [23], [24], [25] are beyond the scope of the paper

I have been trying to get my hands on modern NVMe : SR-IOv with separate namespace on NVMe device could help mitigating the risk IF you trust the firmware...
There's a lot of this I like, but I'm kind of scratching my head about the central design feature being "multiple selections by default". I never even gave Kakoune a shot, because in general multiple-selections just didn't seem like a significant design advantage to me. If I'm doing a lot of multiple selection editing, I tend to think of it as a strong signal that my code/system has a design mistake.
Yes, that was the exact part I was looking for, since I've never quite been able to visualize it, and they just glossed over it.
> no no no, you should not expect people to behave badly

Should you not?

There’s a bit of a spectrum of that. On one end of the spectrum, we all leave our front doors unlocked and our car keys in our parked cars in case someone is stranded and needs to borrow our car. Most of us don’t do that, but that’s what a truly high trust society looks like.

I think it’s prudent to expect any large tech company to violate our privacy to exactly the degree they are physically capable of. It doesn’t mean we should morally approve of them living down to our low expectations of them, any more than we should morally approve of burglars and car thieves exploiting the naivety of people who think they don’t need to lock up their homes and vehicles.

And yes, it is a crying shame that we live in a low-trust world.
My experience of Spain was that people didn’t drink to excess. I specifically recall Feria de Abril where alcohol was abundantly available. It turns out being social is the focus, and the only inebriated people I saw were foreigners and a few teenagers.

New Zealand was culturally very different, where excessive drinking was strongly encouraged in the social groups I saw in my early 20s, and across a variety of social groups as I got older.
https://cdn.polyfill.io/v3/url-builder/ is pretty great for this, it'll detect the browser user agent and send down the right polyfill. Ie on modern browsers it'll send down an empty response.
is it just me, or are downvoters abusing their power to suppress divergent opinion?
Just do a charge back. Oh wait, don't do that unless you want the account and any associated accounts to get permmabanned.
Copyright terms last effectively forever, and certainly a lot lot longer than 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_term
> third parties merge to form coalitions that actually have a chance of winning. Rinse and repeat until you only have two parties.

I would suggest that this probably isn't the case. Since there is no requirement for a majority vote share in first past the post, the same results can be achieved by splitting parties. The parties have more targeted appeal, just enough to squeak past the other parties. This is the case in India, for example.
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For those curious:

1.5 ounces per drink

1.75 L per bottle (assuming a handle)

33.814 ounces per liter

59.175 ounces per bottle

39.450 drinks per bottle

3550.5 drinks per year

9.720 drinks per day
> At the same time, it doesn't add anything useful to editing itself. It's basically scriptable MS Notepad.

I don't know, fill-paragraph (M-q), the sexp commands, transpose commands, upcase-downcase-capitalize commands, indent-rigidly are all built-in, bound by default and I use them a lot. And let's not forget Macros.
"How are ransomware "attacks" still a thing ?"

It is cheaper to build a shoddy system out of the pre-made parts that software companies sell. A shiny very capable system can be built quickly, and cheaply.

To build a robust system, segmented, properly backed up, maintained professionally... costs a lot more.

To have staff on your payroll who understand your systems, who can maintain your systems and recover your systems in a disaster means having expensive professionals on the payroll who look like they are doing nothing.

When your whole business goes into a paralysis because of the costs you saved, there will be some one to blame. Some clerk in a office that "clicked on a attachment" - it is their fault....

Yes, it is cheaper in the long run to build robust maintained systems. But in the long run we are all dead, and our bonuses will be paid before the catastrophe, and anyway it is "some body else's fault".
Well, er, assuming that demand for plastic rises by about 20 times, maybe…?

Like, what’s the motivation here? They’re not Captain Planet villains. Dying industries do not generally hold on out of _spite_; there has to be money in it.
GNU Radio did this recently. Now they just have a CLA, I think.
There is a lot of images and 1mb, by the exacting standards of the author is a (little) bit big i think. Also, the page seems to be a bit....boring? Static images are unexciting especially the stock ones the author uses. Not only that, but the text seems to be unnecessarily narrow and long. I do think a case could be made for so- called "bloated" webpages.
One of my older brothers was a heavy drinker. He died recently at the age of 50. He had an enlarged heart and liver, which they believe were the cause of his death. It's not really clear to me if he saw it coming. He was fine one day, and then the next he was found dead by his housekeeper. I often hear about how alcohol in moderation can possibly cause you to live longer, but I don't hear much about how too much can shorten your lifespan.
It’s crazy that they lasted > 150M years and never developed intelligence. Meanwhile we’ve been here just 10 million years or so and we’re starting to make it to other planets.
Also an old boss C-level IT printed his daily agenda on an A4 and then noted in meetings against that. I don't have access to a printer but I appreciated the simplicity and that it made the attendees feel like they were getting proper attention as he didn't bring a computer in at all.
This was 10 years ago, but I remember reading up and something with the forces enacted on your tendons moving the mouse around were exponentially worse than typing on a keyboard.

I use a touchpad when possible knowing that, but I've never double checked myself. Anecdotally, I've only developed RSI in my mouse hand from gaming (same story for my friends who game as well).

NHS seems to back this as well: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/tips-to-prevent-rs...
It's generally not illegal to pay ransom, though with ransomware you have the issue that the recipients may be subject to US sanctions and it could be illegal to send them money on those grounds.
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The joke being that "2 shots of vodka" is more like 4-5.
> I'll be switching to a custom Android ROM with microG instead of Google Play services soon

I've been trying to use apps mostly from F-Droid recently, but, yes, with Google Play Services infrastructure underneath, it doesn't really make that much of a difference. Haven't heard of microG before, going to check it out!

> there really isn't a good replacement for looking up updated local business information, saving favorite map pins, or navigating public transportation

Same experience here. The quality of many services depends on how many people are using them, unfortunately.
I don't think there is scientific evidence to back that up from what I could find: https://www.oatext.com/Blood-glucose-and-insulin-response-to...
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As an American who’s spent most of their adult life working outside the US (Europe and Asia) I find this pretty hilarious. I mean, it may be true…drinking damage is absolute, not relative. But if America has a drinking problem, a huge chunk of the rest of the world are outright alcoholics.

Of course I think all of this is alarmist. Alcohol is one of those great traditions that has transcended centuries and generations. If I live a few years less, so be it. I’d rather be happy.
Well they're not well known to me. But yes I can see in the FAQ https://playingcards.io/docs/faq that this site uses Fisher-Yates.
I'm sure that it feels like a real problem, but it really isn't. I haven't drank anything for my 39 years of life and I have found most people to be quite accepting of it and those that aren't aren't worth it.
I've replaced the beer in my fridge with Athletic Brewing's non-alcoholic beer.
In vim I tend to use the "dumb-smart-indentation" that just keeps the same indentation for any new line. Seems to work fine for my purposes, just tab for new level and a backspace after to get back to the previous level. Although vim trying to be too smart about this nowadays, and tends to try to often just screw this up with some constantly braking magic.
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I wonder what's the story behind BioNTech/Pfizer

They created equivalent vaccine.
Three dead trolls in a baggie even made a song about it way back in early 2000s. The privacy song, just fill their database with garbage. Also I'm a 43 year old nun.
I get that it feels like that. I've been on the other side of these discussions and it's painful there too.

I've spent hours wordsmithing some text in a dialog that explains exactly what the problem is to people, then watched people blow through the dialog and get angry when they couldn't figure out what's wrong.

I think it's important to understand what you're agreeing to in simple, plain terms that aren't a mile long. But the legal system is so tortured with tort cases that you can't have a simple agreement like that and be protected from lawsuits where people are just trying to make a buck off you.
> as hackers increasingly target critical infrastructure.

Many attacks aren't truly targeted, they're blanket ransomware attacks trying to hit any entity they can.

Also, meat packing isn't critical infrastructure. It's important, sure, but nobody is going to die if they don't get meat. Food overall, yes, but meat is a luxury good.
I don't care what the advertisers care about. Fuck them. They never asked my permission. Straight and simple
Copyright tends to run from the death of the author for a period (in the US is 70 years after death). As for where it's assigned to an institution, it'll still have a long time to run - decades!
OP here.

A lot of my clients are happily using Docker Compose in production. Some even run a million dollar / year businesses on a single $40 / month server. It doesn't get handed off to Swarm or another service, it's literally docker-compose up --remove-orphans -d with a few lines of shell scripting to do things like pull the new image beforehand.

You can still use Terraform to set up your infrastructure, Docker Compose ends up being something you run on your server once it's been provisioned. Whether or not you decide to use a managed database service is up to you, both scenarios work. The blog post and video even cover how you can use a local DB in development but a managed DB in production using the same docker-compose.yml file, in the end all you have to do is configure 1 environment variable to configure your database at the app level with any web framework.
It is definitely that at least with Tinder.
The arms race is in exploits and software development. The country with the largest stockpile of the former and the best talent in the latter will emerge the victor.
Noticed this when I was in Germany/Austria as well. In America, if you go out drinking then that's the primary activity. It's what you're doing. But in central Europe socializing and seeing friends is the activity and you just happen to drink because that's what you do when you see your friends.
> I've always been of the opinion that life is abundant but the universe so large that it's still quite spread out.

This is basically my optimistic/pessimistic view of alien life. The scale of the universe means the probability of alien life existing must be essentially 100%, while the scale of the universe also means the probability of any life finding another instance of life must be essentially 0%.

Although a fun corollary inspired by the Big Alien thought experiment is that local maxima must also exist: Somewhere, some planet with intelligent life must have been close enough to another such planet that they did indeed find each other.
I think its about a long term tolerance thing that people build. Couple anecdotes:

I was invited to my friend's bachelor party weekend. We rented a cabin in a fairly remote area of our province for an extended weekend with plans to golf, fish, campfire, and...drink.

I think by the time the first day was over, the majority of my buddies had each done 12 beer plus several mixed drinks or shots. No mistaking, we were all drunk. But what sort of set things apart was the next day. I basically just nursed a few beers/drinks through the day, probably 6 max while the rest of the guys were easily 12+ a piece, I know one of them had cleaned off his first 24pack by that night.

By the next day I was miserable. We were golfing in 30+ weather and I had 1 beer for the entire 18 holes, they were 6+ each. The heat, the hangover, I don't know how they do it. But it slowly dawned on me that they do this frequently. Most of their weekends are getting tankered at the lake or going through a case of beer in the yard doing chores and having impromptu bbq with the neighbors/buds while I pretty much only drank while at social outings (once a week top) and even then I never had more than 2 or 3 drinks.

When lockdown started a couple of the same buds got laid off from their jobs and mentioned how much they were drinking in isolation. Again, the quantities they drank were fucking astounding while I pretty much stopped drinking entirely due to the social outings coming to an end.

I've tried the "grab some beer and do the oilchange" type work myself but I find by the end my beer is warm, half drank and I was too involved in the work to think about stopping to drink. Even when I did stop, it was because I was thirsty so I'd be seeking water, not alcohol.

After all the experience with this lifestyle from friends I can see where its left us (we're mid 30s now). They're overweight, a few of them struggle with health issues while I'm the same weight I was 10 years prior and healthy as ever. I just think centering your activities around having a beer is something that these people do long term and what seems wild to you or me is normal for them.
I went to a party the other night and didn't drink at all. Very unusual. I brought a bottle of tequila for the host and friends.

Strangely, I didn't feel anxious at all, despite having pretty high general anxiety. My energy levels were higher than usual, which I felt was connected to not drinking. I felt totally normal in my social interactions, didn't force anything, felt good. I kept my water bottle in hand and never felt out of place.

It was a good lesson that alcohol is not needed to have a good time.
That is much harder than it sounds.

For one thing backups are no use if you do not test them. How often are you going to bring your systems down to test restorinig from backup? If you do not how do you know they work?
Yes, I meant that for example Taiwan has/had legal facilities to take organs from death row prisoners but that's not really mentioned. I agree with you on the rest.
Where in Germany? I find this surprising. As an American expat who has spent a lot of time in Germany, I’d agree that the German relationship with alcohol is less taboo, but Germany/UK have pretty big binging cultures. The Mediterraneans definitely do it more responsibly though.
It's hard to reduce the US to a single culture. Alcohol consumption habits vary greatly from region to region, or even city to city depending on where you live.

I've noticed that heavy drinkers tend to cluster with other heavy drinkers. The more you see your friends and coworkers binge drinking regularly, the more you feel it's an acceptable and even common behavior. Likewise, non-drinkers tend to cluster with each other because it gets tiresome to have friends who want every event to revolve around alcohol.

Statistically, the median drinker in the US doesn't drink much alcohol at all. The vast majority of alcohol is consumed by the top 10% of drinkers. You may have simply ended up with a cluster of heavy drinkers that aren't representative of the median US alcohol consumer.

Statistic here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think... Note that the median US alcohol drinker consumes less than 1 drink per week.
I'm curious as to how so-called cyber insurance plays out with these attacks.
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I'm working on managing contracts for three different departments with different interests plus the customer and looking for ways to ensure changes are tracked and consistent. Any tools or tricks are appreciated. Tracked changes in Word can only go so far; I'd dump it all in git but sadly latex and git would frighten many folks.
The difference is that with a pointer device you need to control the input very carefully and precisely, which wastes time and brain cycles. A misclick could result in either maximizing or closing a window. Consecutive clicks can be interpreted differently depending on the configured period. Dragging and dropping is awkward, etc.

On any trackpad other than Apple's this becomes even more difficult. Gestures are nice but also require nuance and IME don't become part of muscle memory as quickly as keyboard use does.

Keyboard-driven workflows have no such issues. A keyboard shortcut is an immediate command to the computer to perform an action, and if that's something you do often, it will save you time and effort right away. You'll memorize it soon and forget about it since it will become part of muscle memory.

> If the challenge is to move to an arbitrary location visible on screen, then it’s logically almost certain that a good trackpad is more efficient than any combination of keyboard shortcuts.

But moving "to a location on screen" is never a challenge worth using keyboard shortcuts for. If moving a cursor is your only UI option then a trackpad will be more efficient than doing the same with a keyboard of course. What you should do is use hotkeys to perform the action you would with a pointer so that you don't have to move it to begin with.
I think this is the number one reason for UFOs being judged as aliens or even as flying objects at all. People don't realize that that if you have no idea of the distance, size or speed, then you can't even attempt to estimate any of them and seemingly impossible things happen. Planets look like balloons, cars look like stars, etc. This seems to be the problem with those military pilot's videos and accounts.

Whenever someone says it was "as big as a ..." or "impossibly fast", they're usually interpreting what they actually saw through their faulty intuition about those things. Angular size like the OP said is a useful observation, but not actual size.

I experienced this the first time I flew on a plane. I was watching the clouds passing by just below the plane and had a feeling for our comfortable speed, then suddenly a whispy bit of cloud in the foreground shot past much faster than I thought we were travelling and gave me a little shock. I then realized the clouds I'd been watching were probably much further away than I'd imagined.
They already did that when they said 36 liters, which is 100 bottles of wine.
They are not putting a layer of SRAM on top of the Core Hotplate. They are putting the SRAM on top of the SRAM section.
> If larger aliens means smaller populations of aliens,

Why is that? If aliens are 10X larger than humans, but their planet is also 10X larger in surface area and resources, why can't the population be similarly large?

Also, isn't it similarly likely for some aliens to be on average smarter than us, due to some freak of evolution, and some to be dumber..

Genuinely curios if I'm missing something.
I'm also a fan of kombucha (and make it at home), but it's not quite a non-alcoholic beverage.

Commercial kombucha is generally < .5%, homebrew can be up to 10x that. It's a two step process - yeast ferments the sugar into alcohol, then bacteria digest the alcohol into acid. If the bacteria fall behind, the ABV goes up.

The yeast can work anaerobic, the bacteria need O2 to get the job done. Anything not pasteurized is likely going to increase in ABV some in the bottle, since the yeast are active and the bacteria aren't. This is also why I force carbonate my home-brew - when you build CO2 with a secondary ferment you're also building alcohol.