skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Multiple Spectre variants (RDCL, RSRR, Lazy FP state restore, SpectreRSB) bypass process boundaries. It doesn’t matter what IPC mechanism you use, they can read arbitrary privileged memory no matter who owns it.

IPC really has nothing to do with anything, Spectre-wise; you don’t have to be using any IPC mechanism in either the attacker or attackee process to be vulnerable to these variants.
The YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal
Ice cores are interesting. I've given that a bit of thought and what I can't get past is the possibility that the cores show stored CO2 but not CO2 in the air at the time. This was also brought up in a couple PBS space time episodes and a documentary I can't recall the name of. Basically the storage of CO2 is not always related to the CO2 in the atmosphere and there are so many contributing and confounding factors that it is really hard to correlate with certainty. It is entirely possible that there have been brief periods (sub 1k years) that had large spikes of C02 that are not represented by the ice core and sea floor samples. I am not suggesting that core samples are invalid, rather that we may be missing some variables. I am certainly no expert on this topic.
Two complaints: All of the articles I can find are copies of the IJ release. And the title is click-bait.

It appears from the IJ's "details" (https://ij.org/case/nc-engineering-speech/)that Nutt is a chemical engineer. ("Wayne Nutt spent over 37 years as a practicing engineer, mostly working for the DuPont corporation in North Carolina. In that time, he worked with a variety of different technologies and designed and built a variety of things, including pipes for transportation of fluid, while developing deep expertise in chemical engineering and technology.")

He provided expert testimony on a water drainage issue. ("Wayne’s trouble started when he volunteered to testify as an expert witness in a case his son, an attorney, was litigating. The case involved a piping system in a housing development that allegedly caused flooding in nearby areas, and Wayne, who had designed plenty of pipes in his day, volunteered to testify about the volume of fluid that pipe could be expected to carry.")

Then, "After Wayne testified truthfully that he was not (and never had been) a licensed engineer, the lawyers for the defendant threatened to report him to the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. Wayne didn’t take the threat seriously; he wasn’t designing anything or building anything, he was just offering his opinion about something that might have happened in the past."

Offering expert testimony appears to fall under the definition of "practice of engineering" (https://codes.findlaw.com/nc/chapter-89c-engineering-and-lan...). "The practice of engineering in North Carolina for projects or testimony impacting the public in North Carolina requires that the individual and company must be licensed in North Carolina. ... Our Board considers that any testimony that requires engineering knowledge to adequately provide and to protect the public falls with the definition of the practice of engineering and requires a NC PE license." (https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NC_Engineering_ema...)

The court appears to have allowed him to provide the expert testimony, but the Board is doing what it does.

There's not much to see here; no one except the IJ is saying anything about "he can't talk about engineering"---the topic in question is expert testimony and I don't think federal courts are going to regard that as some form of protected speech in this situation.
From what you've written, it appears that you are guessing as to the implementation details that correspond to the mechanism for pushing random apps to phone, which is in this case means un-authenticated apps. There may be an entirely different method used than the standard push method from selecting an app on the website.
Coronavirus origins, China = racism.
South African variant = science.
I'll just leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgOb3zseg1hS43m6rtVPs...
There are speculative theories on a future "hothouse earth" scenario which could, in fact, drive human extinction (as if human extinction is all that matters). But yes, speculation on global human extinction or mere catastrophic societal collapse is just that: speculative. Our models aren't predictive enough to tell us, for example whether the drier, hotter climate and unpredictable weather patterns will cause food instability, mass migration, and collapse in certain regions. We can be fairly confident of one thing; people like you and me who probably won't be materially affected will continue to drive the "wait and find out" strategy.
Blocker would be the H1B lottery. You'll have better luck using L1 and then convert to a green card than going down the H1B route.
I'm afraid I don't. Whilst it seems likely this target won't be met, I'm hoping there's enough small changes across many sectors that add up to substantial progress.
I feel like you're conflating civilization and government.
I'm in the market for a tool like this. At the moment I'm using Prodigy but interested in other options. Features that I'd be willing to pay for (or rather my employer):

1 team functionality with multiple user accounts

2 easy to use workflow for double annotation where each text is annotated by exactly two annotators. The software should make sure that a text is never shown to more than 2 annotators and never shown to the same annotator twice

3 make it easy to review the 2 versions and solve conflicts

4 smarter alternative to review would be a warning system that identifies annotations that may have errors (because a model trained on the other data predicts a different result) and automatically flags it for review by another annotator

5 stats on the annotators: speed, accuracy, statistics on how frequently they assign different labels to detect potential misunderstandings of the annotation schema

6 GUI with overview of all annotation datasets, with stats like % finished annotating (with stages for double annotation and review), the types of annotation done, frequencies of labels to detect imbalances

7 functions to mass-edit the annotations, like renaming or removing an entity type

Another thing I'd be interested in is some integration with a third party annotation provider. There are companies that offer annotation as a service and it's also available on Google Cloud and AWS. Having that integrated into an annotation tool would make it very easy to get large amounts of well annotated training material.

But finally, and much more importantly: The workflow for annotators has to be perfected first, so they can work as efficiently and consistently as possible. Getting this right is more important to me than any of the other features I listed.
I was shopping around for a mid range desktop CPU just a while ago, and for the same price, AMD's offerings were a bit more performant.
That note made me wonder what exactly mechanized opal mining looks like.
A Product Manager’s Guide to Painted-Door Tests
I speak German and as most others in Germany I do not understand Swiss German. My point was simply this: the similarities between those two are so tiny to a point that people who only speak one of those two would not be able to communicate. Yet they still find a way to put German into the language spoken by the Swiss. The differences between Serbian and Croatian are so tiny that people speaking only one of those would absolutely be able to understand each other. And this is true even after decades of partial isolation from one another.
HN has lots of ways for people to encounter new comments on 9-day-old threads. Someone happened to do so and happened to downvote your post. That's normal.

I think if I were to reply further I would probably just repeat what I said before, so I'll refrain. If there's some specific point you think I didn't address, let me know.
I honestly hope for a framework of credibility, where people vouch for others' competence on a subject. Not just for licensed/protected topics but for just about anything. You know, like those LinkedIn appraisals (yes, they suck but they're just reflection of the society). That ages old "web of trust" idea.

Something without any "mandatory" trusted anchors and no censorship. One must be freely able to put any trust links they believe they want to do, as well as decide for themselves if they trust some established institutions or believe everything is a hoax and decide to trust someone else, say a person or organization we may call a charlatan. Basically, anyone should be able to make any calculations on that graph as they see fit, and use those results for themselves. Just like it already happens.

It obviously would be incredibly broken and plagued with all sort of issues, but it would reflect the society. And I'm not sure how it can be made viable - no web of trust except for the original one (the society itself) had ever worked. It probably need some modern fads - be it dancing pigs like Facebook did for their graph, or potential profits of cryptocurrencies, I honestly don't know. And I readily recognize it could lead to privacy problems, especially given the current trend of radical ostracization upon any slightest disagreement.

But if it somehow works (it probably won't, sadly) it could be the ultimate solution to licensing boards, fake news, propaganda and many other kinds of memetic storms.

But surely, society can't remove licensing requirements before there's a viable alternative.

Just a random thought.
Yet, online that’s all websites 18+ and 21+ do.
Easylist and Privacylist are great. I suppose the main reasons for doing it manually are seeing firsthand what all the sites you visit are doing behind the scenes, and getting a sense of what is legitimately needed functionality, what isn't, and what is just downright sketchy.
If you're really into shaving yaks, all the tools I mentioned allow for fine-grained modification of the aesthetics and layout.

Two questions about FigJam then:

1. What format does it store the saved files? Is it plain text, does it compress well, can it be diff'd?

2. Can I store the saved files locally and put them in the version control/CRM system of my choice, or are they all stored on Figma's servers?
I've read a book -a pamphlet, really- about how killing heirs are the quickest and less expensive way of wealth redistribution. Several good point were made, not that clever though tbh, and with some provocativness and irony.

I think a better writer could make a good book, less ironic, even more convincing and less upfront with the idea. If this book existed, would you let young people read it? I mean, you could argue back that heir add value by living and pushing their parent to earn even more money, and killing them would kill their motivation, but now, killing the 3rd generation should not have any influence on the early motivation, yes?
Lists don't make great HN submissions because there's little to discuss other than the lowest common denominator of the items of the list items, and that's too generic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

It's also too much indirection since HN is already a list of articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's better to post the most interesting specific item from the list.
A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone
Pretty sure that was (part of) the parent's point, actually.
Compliance. If you're building a SaaS startup then it's very important to have physical presence in the US
This may explain the lack of widespread use at first, but it definitely does not explain the widespread censorship.
Hi! Imagine for a moment that your next project required you to develop a lot of functional analysis and PDE theory in Lean. Would you be tempted to build that on top of what you've done (or will have done) with condensed sets?
You are using quite an uncharitable interpretation of what I actually said. Elsewhere being not necessarily a hospital, in this case, but at best a hospital that agrees with her medical advice.

Or are you proposing that she be thrown on the streets, jailed, exhiled, or executed? What do you propose? I too can be uncharitable but that probably doesn't lead to productive conversation.
Why is carried interest still a thing? Why are fixed fees taken by investment managers not taxed as income?

I think the current administration could fix these things easily but we are talking about all kinds of other things while ignoring low hanging fruit.
Of course, and I never meant to imply an EV is a complete reduction of emissions. Even a solar-at-home EV still has tire emissions and all the carbon spent to manufacture and ship it.
My condescension comes from this being a simple choice at the dealership, rather than the many harder, but still worthy, decisions to reduce emissions in transportation altogether.
> Here is an RCT in JAMA finding it ineffective:

For treating what? This study looked at trying to reduce mild COVID-19 symptoms. In fact, the current strongest evidence is for prophylaxis, as well as treating more severe cases. Also the study didn’t show that it was ineffective, it showed that it couldn’t disprove the null hypothesis. Please get your facts straight, before throwing a link to a overly specific RCT to prove your point.
Stanford had (has?) a class where you actually fabricate the chips in their cleanroom. I've heard from people who took the class that you'd have to reserve individual pieces of fabrication equipment at all sorts of weird hours (not unlike a real chip plant) and work shifts to get done in time
This ain't new, people tried to convince Wikipedia to do this for years. Wikimedia always claimed that there's nothing they can do about it. Turns out that was bullshit, as all of us knew.

And Balkan Insight is really fucking good at getting English speakers to care about problems in the Balkans.
This is the kind of problems backwards compatible legacy processors cause.
>Further research necessary.

The autism link to vaccines isn't at the "further research necessary" stage, it is at the "not absolutely impossible but much evidence against" stage.

The only reason the link exists at all is that vaccines and first signs of autism can happen at similar times and often a vaccine will make a person/small child briefly feel unwell which gets pointed to as a "first sign" because humans find patterns where there aren't any and want something, anything to blame instead of not knowing.
I find the handing over of personal responsibility for my safety to be alarming.

If I'm about to cross the road, I am perfectly capable of deciding when it's safe or not. If the light is red but there's no traffic, it's safe to cross.

If I'm standing at a crossing and the light is green, meaning that I can walk, but there's a car out of control heading down the road (or an ambulance with its sirens on, etc) then it's not safe to cross, regardless of the green light.

I'm living in Germany at the moment, and you definitely get angry looks and comments for crossing when the light is red (especially if there are children around - because teaching kids to think for themselves and take personal responsibility for their safety is bad?). I find it all very weird.
You can see the point of requiring people to actually have installed (and played) the game before reviewing it.

The Metro Enhanced Edition is just an edge case that slipped through the cracks. I’d think Hacker News would be the first to sympathise with bugs caused by weird edge cases.
Reinventing the wheel. So many hours wasted on creating something that already existed in the form of PHP libraries or Python libraries that are written by much smarter folks. I tell my guys now, tools such as Ansible exist, don't try to write a whole Bash program to mimic what Ansible can do.
I encouraged my employer to get on board with the personal-data-for-access trend.
Well likely because the legal liability for getting a debt wrong would outweigh the advantages.

That and most state's consumers protections prevent this sort of behavior.
There should be another version of nand2tetris called sand2nand
> If breasts were merely for feeding babies, then most women would not have them. They would develop them only during pregnancy, and would lose them again when they stopped breast-feeding.

Well, that's exactly what my wife did for each of our kids: nearly no breasts volume, then during pregnancy developed huge breasts, continued while feeding the baby, then nearly disappear after and back to initial state. Rinse and repeat.

That's only one data point, yet it's funny how it fits so precisely the hypothesis rejected by the author.
> Who is to blame when a social media website censors unproven medical procedures

FTFY
Paypal has already lost in german court.
And global sanctions are still invalid.
Paypal explicitly violates applicable EU law, namely the EU Blocking Regulation. This EU directive was explicitly issued in response to the US embargo against Cuba. It prohibits European companies from complying with the embargo and threatens all those who engage in the US blockade with severe penalties.
And PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, S.C.A. is a european company.
Browser makers are always doing aggressive (and thus questionable) things with the UX, partly because the chrome is the only part which is under their control (and not the content).

The two most questionable decisions I find in the latest Safari UX are:

- A focused tab goes from the title to the address: this means you cannot see the title of the page you are on, and that tabs change relative positions depending on focus. This is unfortunately a hard problem, because users/designers expect a signal that you are on the correct site to prevent phishing - adding a disclosure field for viewing/entering the address anchored to the left is insufficient.

- Tab Pinning is still not supported on ios/iPadOS, and since tab groups are synchronized they cannot be pinned. Pinning adds some really nice behaviors for curation, so the whole tab group feature feels less useful than it could be.
When dealing with systemic issues of this magnitude taking individual action is often insufficient to affect meaningful change.

Some people simply can't afford it or the options are inaccessible due to geographical constraints.

A good example of this is exposure to harmful plastics. As an individual it's impossible for me to fully avoid all plastic exposure to my body and food.
Well, I have some news from the future of that comment. HN is not eating it up. Almost every post is about how the study isn't great and the title doesn't reflect it.
I agree with this right up until the last sentence. If you feel the need to be an “impeccable toy model” I’d say leave. Sounds like a recipe for a life of misery.
He did not encourage others to do that.
Shine on forever,
Shine on benevolent sun
Nepotistic credentialism scribed into stone by bureaucrats and enforceable by jailtime. This is happening at a grand scale and is only hastening the cancerous growth of Cost Disease.

Oh, you don't have a programming license? You aren't allowed to write C++.
It's okay because I have nothing to take.
Commented out the credit card charging part of the order processing pipeline during testing and pushed it to production.
going to the wrong university.
Even stronger: the differences in internal regional dialects within Serbia and Croatia, are sometimes larger than the differences between official Serbian and Croatian (although even these small differences in official languages are often artificial and politically forced into).
You're missing one of the earliest points in my response; the tokens people were "sending" to creators [were from Brave]. We gave the user 5 BAT and asked them who they'd like to support with it. User's could pick a creator, and we would work on notifying that creator that [BAT from Brave had been directed towards them by Brave users]. All of that aside, the feedback from users around this time was phenomenal, and helped us redesign the system into something substantially better.
I've been monitoring this for a long time now. I have ivermectin on hand for deworming my two mini burros.

Of course, you're not supposed to use it on humans but they say that about fish mox too. But as time went on it was pretty clear to me that it was working to prevent covid from becoming severe in the countries that were using it for that because they had nothing much else to use. I saw many reports of it working.

I also read about vitamin D, melatonin, famotidine, and aspirin helping to reduce severity of infections. So, when my wife and I got our 1st and 2nd jab of the Pfizer vaccine we took all of those and had no reaction to it at all. Our daughter took it before her first jab and had no reaction but didn't for her 2nd and she did get sick. As soon as she told us she wasn't feeling good we dosed her with those and just an hour or so later she was feeling good again.

I haven't been infected and now I've reached full immunity so none of that proves anything at all but it's still been worth knowing.
I didn't realize until now that you are an immigrant, but this actually makes a lot of sense. You seem to consistently delete comments that show any hint of sympathy for the American worker. And more broadly speaking, you seem to moderate any comment or content that doesn't tow the liberal party line. Canadians can really be the worst sometimes, and it is shame that you were able to weasel your way into this position that has a lot of power. Hopefully 4chan is right, and the day of the rake is near.
The E-Bike Revolution Is Here
So, this seems ludicrous and sad. What I am wondering is whether or not this is an accurate representation of the real situation in SFBay area schools? If we have any parents from the SF Bay area on HN who are sending their kids to public schools, I'd be interested in hearing their take on this.
I've always suspected my periodic craving for Vegemite is simply due to salt deficiency. Those that didn't grow up with Vegemite tend to find it disgusting but a craving for Vegemite is a well known thing in Australia where you can sweat out huge quantities of salt on a typical summers day.

These weird foods probably have concentrations of various things that you simply won't see in anywhere else. Salt appetite is a proven and understood phenomenon but i bet there's similar things going on in all of these foods. You try it once and probably don't like it then and there and then one day your brain brings up the memory of that food and tells you to go eat it again.
No but you can register a domain and get free wildcard certs from LetsEncrypt for it. Use registrars that let you search for similar names and you can probably find something like myexample.net I did not check if this is available, this is just an example
The guy provided expert testimony in a court. The opposition reported him to the Board of Examiners. The Board of Examiners requires a PE license for those who provide expert testimony. He is going to get to pay the fine.

"Is giving a speech about how to treat a broken bone considered ‘practicing medicine’?"

Giving the speech in a court, on the witness stand, under oath, claiming to be an expert in treating broken bones?

How about an example from engineering? A bridge collapses and fifty or sixty people die. In the resulting lawsuit, Bob, a nationally recognized bridge engineer, testifies, with many pages of reports, that the design of the bridge was substantially bad. Ted, who has a degree in engineering and worked for 20 years as an engineer (designing coffee makers, say) testifies that according to his calculations, of which he presents a plethora, the bridge design was entirely adequate and the failure was an "act of god".
+1 to Manager's Path and Elegant Puzzle

One other point I'd add that isn't covered particularly well in this list: the process of becoming an engineering manager and interviewing for the job[1] are both challenging processes unto themselves.

[1] https://blog.tryexponent.com/how-to-prepare-for-an-engineeri...