skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person seems to have absolutely no grasp of the concept of forgiveness.

People make mistakes. Penalizing people for arcane ordering snafus for prolonged periods of time seems like the classic definition of power tripping, nothing more. And penalizing people when you know they cannot get the part they need elsewhere is just cruelty.
Cupcake - A Rust library for lattice-based additive homomorphic encryption
So… one search “platform”, which is just app ads in the store. Ok.
> …civilization collapse has been highly overrated…

Yep, I wouldn’t even begin to advance a collapse hypothesis until a solid 7 generation trend has been established. However, the common assumption amongst contemporary policy makers is stagnation == collapse. So it is useful to observe for such data.

I don’t buy into that narrative, nor the “stagnation is fine” story, either. I simply don’t have sufficient data to evaluate what demographic stagnation over a few hundred years or even a millennia means at this time.

I will point out however: for many tens of millennia, our species teetered on a knife’s edge of viability, with an asymptotically curved growth rate that might as well have been stagnant. One hypothesis I’m exploring is demographic stagnation is a no-op in the presence of any species-wide median increase in cognitive density.
This and also: I wonder if the messiness of these products derives from a messy company structure. Maybe different departments or teams competing against each other for money, career advancements, etc. all without a strong leadership that can cut bad ideas before they start to be developed. Does anybody have information to prove or disprove this conjecture?
If that's the case, the microcode update happens some time during the boot process. It isn't persistent. It's either in the firmware or the OS. If it's on Linux, you can disable the boot script that performs the microcode update or patch it to update an older microcode image and you're done.
Somewhere I saw someone say once: "You didn't make good choices. You had good choices."

It tends to be the people with the best opportunities and the most resources who snidely look down their nose and pretend other people just didn't try hard enough, work hard enough, sacrifice enough, etc.

This is part of how racism and other social ills remain entrenched: Don't give folks the same opportunities, then blame them when their life sucks and attribute it to personal moral failure.
Ditto this article but also ed25519 for your PGP keys
As I read that email, it seems to be saying the opposite:

> We know when the underlying storage is solid state - there's a "non-rotational" field in the block device config that tells us the storage doesn't need physical seek optimisation. We should make use of that.

In other words, the changes under consideration should only apply when they know they're using solid state storage. Is there information elsewhere which contradicts that?

Indeed, it seems very surprising that XFS might consider removing optimizations for slower drives. It's a very popular file system in the enterprise, and anyone still storing large amounts of data is very likely to still be using rotational drives because of the massive cost difference.
Indeed! Most people don't read ancient SF and I didn't expect that joke. Well played!

> We have no indication who said it

Kirk in ToS never said "Beam me up, Scotty", but that's the quote everyone knows.

Truthiness trumps truth.

It appears Gates' and Microsoft's views at the time were something like what he said in 1989: "That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time."

Note that "a great deal of time" ruins what you think is a sarcastic joke. That qualifier is also exactly the sort of nuance that's worn off in retelling, as dropping it makes the retelling more interesting.

Truthiness trumps truth.

We know that the earliest form of that attributed quote is in an Infoworld article by editorial director James E. Fawcette, dated April 29, 1985 as "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. — William Gates, chairman of Microsoft"

It has no citation, no additional context, and several other parts of the piece ("Legend has it" and "was reported") strongly suggest it was not written with historical accuracy foremost in mind. Instead, I interpret it as using these examples as parables to make the editorial argument more vivid.

Truthiness trumps truth.

Thing is, I agree it's a joke. I think the joke was "Look those derpy engineers. They're so close-minded! Don't they know that we always want more RAM, more disk space, and more of everything?!"

But that raw joke questions engineering tradeoffs and decisions, and as you rightly point out, journalists rarely have that expertise. So the joke is made of Jobs and Gates, because it's always fun to take CEO's down a notch. Even if it wasn't true.

Truthiness trumps truth.
Clubhouse accidentally leaked its Backchannel for DMs feature
Ok, so that’s where airplane noise comes from
Half the trees in two new English woodlands planted by jays, study finds
at least if you are a carpenter
Autobots, collect the grocery and parcel.
Income inequality != it’s worse for the poor

Look at every metric of poverty or things affecting the poor (literacy, hunger, access to education) and its improved like no other time in history in the last 50 years.

Just because the rich got richer in the process might annoy you, but it benefitted a lot of others. What do you want? No income inequality and therefore everyone living in terrible conditions, or a large divide between rich and poor but things actually improving?
Beijing doubles down on rooting out crypto in China
Well, you'd still check the signature, to make sure you have the same build that the debian repository has.

This is just an additional check that the debian repository has sane builds.

(If someone mucks around with the debian repositories but you aren't the target, you might or might not be under attack.)
Bitcoin recoups some losses in Asia after plunging on Chinese crackdown
Bitcoin steadies in Asia trading after Monday’s plunge
If you want to learn more about how patent system works and how the troll lawyers take advantage of society by using it to terrorize inventors, I recommend you watch the documentary by X-Plane's creator Austin Mayer, The Patent Scam.

https://www.thepatentscam.com/
Whiplash effect
Yes, I’m watching Japan with great interest. Wish I knew Japanese and Chinese cultures more intimately to be able to parse what we’re hearing as laypeople, but yay for specialists who do study that. Now if only I could find what those specialists wrote…
Why is it so hard to make self-driving cars?
Have you forgotten why a US military was necessary just 75 years ago to save the UK from destruction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
Lots of Indian laptops come with HDDs. Even my office laptop, after 2 promotions. When I got an SSD a few years back, I realised random failures in dev tools were not normal, there were lots of bottlenecks.
I went from not having a dishwasher to having one and it's fantastic.

I don't preclean anything, but I do follow the recommended loading procedure.
I would love to see this evidence if you could link it, particularly regarding people of sub saharan african origin. I've been trying to kick my racism ever since I learnt about the measured IQ (and other intelectual achievement) average differences.
Should've said "... this Wednesday" then.

The way it's phrased implies a periodic event, which is what makes the title clickbaity.
The rise and fall of Oxygen OS
Eventually they'll start being right. Not even Amazon can grow at this pace forever.
I believe can visualize things in my mind, although it is mostly abstract. If you ever painted, you know how error prone imaging from memory actually is. Of course this will affect you less and less the more practice you get. But don't assume someone painting a portrait wouldn't need you to sit still. Again, someone with practice might not need it as much.

I looked at the tests and the questions are really subjective. It sounds much more like a subjective
self-assessment about your fantasy than some form of diagnostic support.

If you close your eyes and see only black, I heavily doubt that indicates a condition. If you see something on the other hand...

I remain skeptical of this, or maybe TV got to me too...
Show HN: Bubble – a social platform for video comments and reactions
We started with a very basic observation: Social media provides us with endless opportunities for sharing anything online or watching snippets of other people’s lives. However, most of it has evolved around self-promotion and the goal of getting more likes instead of real interaction: While some became ‘influencers’ - most stayed ‘followers’. The result is a huge imbalance between engaging content by a few and an endless feed of comments and messages by the rest of us.

As an alternative, we are currently building Bubble and I would love to get your feedback: Bubble is a social video platform that allows users to create, share and react to video comments on top of any content. You can use Bubble to comment on a photo, a screenshot or a video and request a short video comment from your friends. You can create your own private bubbles or join public discussions around topics that you find interesting.

We built Bubble to be a space for authentic and engaging interaction between real people around real content. We believe that the most intimate connections emerge through people’s faces and Bubble allows everyone to merge with the content they are sharing. Instead of browsing through anonymous posts, you can now hear and see others while they discuss opinions, raise questions, or just laugh along with you.

We are currently launching a test flight version of this and I would be excited to receive and discuss any feedback that you might have!

Thanks,
Frank
I usually use `git pull -r` to rebase upstream changes
Good. Once the total cost of remote manufacturing starts licking the cost of local/domestical, it'll finally start to make sense to manufacture domestically - plus then stick a label on it that it's a domestic product, and benefit from it.
Ye especially the steering. Small steering wheel and lower gear ratio on modern cars makes them kinda unsafe in the event of power steering loss.
People with dishwashers. Oh, wait... there's a drying rack inside the dishwasher!
This is what I know of: https://www.oneskin.co/
That's a good question. Here in Latvia they actually make any walk in long grass somewhat problematic, as well as letting animals like dogs inside for whatever reason.

I actually got lyme disease a few years ago - had a period of pretty lethargic behaviour and noticeable joint pain. Blood work helped figure out its presence in my body and a course of antibiotics thankfully made me better.

Now, i'm not precisely sure about the long term symptoms, since me having occasional memory problems, insomnia and depression/anxiety all might be unrelated to it, but some people definitely get such symptoms and even worse ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Late_disseminated...

After malaria and mosquitoes have been properly addressed, it would be nice to collectively work on ticks.
The economics of FOSS is not a solved problem and the author deserves kudos here for asking questions that I don't see asked anywhere else. The examples chosen are maybe not the most current, and there are counterexamples especially in B2B contexts but I'm applauding here and I'll save my more critical review for the book when it comes out.
This is in some sense also the primary cause of inflation in many cases. When demand for money drops, its value relative to stuff decreases, and you need more of it for the same things. (This is often followed by an increase in money supply, not, primarily, caused by it. The increase in supply is usually people (government or their ilk) creating more money to afford things once it's value has dropped.)

So why does demand for money go down in the first place? Now that's complicated. The demand for money is determined by the market which is sometimes predictable and sometimes works in mysterious ways.
Sktime looks like a similar but more fully featured package: https://www.sktime.org/en/latest/
On the other hand, I had a social studies teacher giving a… finance? (is that a class in high school? I know it wasn't a government course) class in which he explained that credit cards were the best means of paying for something. But he was big on the "why," which, in his class was "float." Cash was the stupidest way to pay for anything because the money was gone immediately. Checks were only slightly less evil. But if you could just pay with a credit card you could float that money out there and spend more than you had. Bonus if you could pay off one credit card with another, but for reasons he did not explain "that only works so far."

The man showed us his wallet full of credit cards, but I think (and hope) that we were all old enough to understand what was going on and simply feel a little bad for him. The moral of the anecdote, though, is that sometimes the code doesn't run the way you planned it to, and good ideas run through the wrong systems result in strange errors.

My father teaches so long as he stubbornly refuses to retire, and as of 5 years ago was still required to teach about floppy disks. He is in a non-tech field. I'm a product of my experiences, but I skeptically and open-mindedly remain on the 'damn gubmint' side for now.
Exactly. For my personal purposes in this matter (YMMV), 30 years of trend is curious. 200 years is data.
To give them some benefit of doubt, all the industry experience is with geostationary sats. There is AFAIK little experience with tracking multiple quickly moving satellites using one antenna array.
The people on this website are terrible sometimes.
> Maps was entirely rewritten

> Gmail had the entire backend rewritten

> Docs was completely rewritten

> Spreadsheets was rewritten twice

I think I’m starting to understand why these products very rarely receive new features, which I believe is the point di4na was making.
Not sure about Yoshinoya, but I've heard that Sukiya is considered a "black" company. Means they run over people, understaff and, in general, it's not a place you want to work in unless you're desperate. That was few years ago, though, so not sure how is it, now.
It has the worst results in the industry - most injuries, most turnover.

Where do you get these "better conditions" from?
For some reason I imagine a shrinking Daffy Duck yelling Mine! Mine! Mine!

But I guess the situation is clear enough: the guy wants to gather everything IRC under one banner for some new thing. There will possibly be a IRC client to complete the circle if the web version isn’t enough, perhaps even an app.
You can sail faster than the wind when you push against a medium though.

Veritasium has a very relevant interesting episode on this: https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag

Although I agree it would be challenging to get any significant speed from it.
Um, not sure I want to open that link. What does it do?
Quite amazing you can interpret "150% turnover" as "arriving in droves".

150% turnover is unconditionally bad.
Or there are actors faking views and buying clicks to sway perceived popular opinion down the drain
Except there are 14 LPs and nobody says any one LP is superior to the rest. If you need to consider "Deliver Results" supreme irrespective of anything else, then it needs to be made clear. Just do away with the rest of the LPs.
I didn't particularly enjoy WSC, although it was… more interesting than other books from him I have read. My favourite is (by far) Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World. What did you think of it, if you have read it?
noun

1. a large piece of something, especially food, cut or broken off a larger piece.
I'm unable to find anything about how they will deal with security updates on their site.
If you hurt person A, why do you have to apologize to the public anyways? You should apologize to that person, why do others expect you to apologize to them?
Well, neural networks run (fastest) on GPUs.
I had a similar experience when I searched on Google Photos and realized that it can find text in pictures. I know that the technology exists, but it still surprised me how it has been added to a product so seamlessly.

I searched for "wifi" and found many pictures of posters with information to connect to free wifi in museums, offices, hotels.
Is dis_ucode_ldr kernel command line option sufficient to disable updates?
Seasonal is perhaps even better a word!
I guess I was imagining a conflict as the result of a race condition. Two concurrent changes are made where if they were ordered, there would be no conflict.
Did you try actually looking for any data? It's trivial to find and another poster did your work for you.

-sensible guy who also wants the cruel monopoly broken apart.
Maybe not entirely, because just like a dream, the rules of a neural network tend to drift and be somewhat fuzzy.

Unless it's a high-concept game whose very goal is offering you a dream environment.

But I do believe neural networks will get into everything. They're the last missing piece of our compute model.
So just make them pay it off later on or in small chunks monthly until it's paid off. There's no reason whatsoever for making other people pay for it for them. I'm tired of other people being so damn generous with my money.
Show HN: PlanetTypeScript, Aggregator of all things TypeScript
> Judges interpret the law. So yes, if the judge rules this way, then this means that you were wrong to claim that Apple's actions were not illegal.

The matter in question is distinctly novel and any ruling from the Judge will establish a new interpretation of existing law—laws which date back to 1890 and cannot possibly predict the creation of computer software ecosystems. A ruling could make Apple's past actions retrospectively illegal. But that doesn't make them illegal today, before the ruling has been issued.

> And I look forward to coming back to this post

As do I. I've bookmarked this thread and we shall reconvene when the judge returns her verdict.

> But, of course, I can already see people making up excuses, to ignore the judge, if the judge disagrees with then.

On both sides.

> Ah, so then you agree that some of Apple's actions are illegal

No, I don't. In my opinion, the correct verdict should be entirely in Apple's favour. I disagree with the argument made by Epic that Apple has done anything illegal. But even if the Judge makes some relatively trivial concessions in Epic's favour, it would be a bit rich for pro-Epic commentators to crow if none of Epic's substantial demands are rejected.

To the extent I think Apple should change any of their policies around the App Store, it is for the sake of PR and not law—to protect Apple's business model from the coming onslaught of badly conceived "anti-monopoly" legislation.
I don't understand your point about the public key. The goal is to be able to verify all signatures; whether we trust a signature or not is configured inside APT by specifying a list of trusted primary keys.

> # The algorithm is stored with the signature.
> This is slightly less bad than above, but still bad

Which algorithms are trusted is a client side decision. We do need the string to be able to parse the signature itself. signify also has it, except that it includes it inside the base64 as the first two bytes.

I do not believe there is a need to be able to configure the trusted algorithms on a per primary key basis (aka storing it with the public key).

Basically the problem we have with GPG is that it trusts algorithms for far too long. So we had to implement lists of trusted algorithms inside APT ourselves. We still have no way to reject 1k RSA keys, though, because GPG does not tell us the key size.

We can assign algorithms trust levels and prevent downgrades to weaker keys alongside the other downgrade attack checks for Release files we already have in APT.

> I didn't look at the sub-key protocol in detail. The ephemeral key for every release is an interesting choice. The root key is "offline". But if it must be brought online to sign a new ephemeral key for every release anyway, you might as well just use it to sign the release itself.

Yes, well, if you go with the subkey approach you'll always have a subkey, so you can't sign directly with a primary key.

I think there's some confusion here in that people believe both formats should be supported at the same time, but they are two separate proposals, and only one should make it into real code.

> Using minisign/signify like OpenBSD does and keeping things very simple makes sense to me. The complexity designed into this system (sub-keys, multiple algorithms and signatures) starts to stretch the bounds to where TUF (https://theupdateframework.io/) might make sense. TUF is very complex and not worth it for most projects, but Debian is exactly what TUF is designed for.

I've said it 4 years ago - we don't want TUF. TUF does not provide useful things, but adds (duplicates) a lot of complexity. It's the opposite of what we're trying to achieve here.

https://blog.jak-linux.org/2017/08/17/why-tuf-does-not-shine...

Add to that that we'd have to rewrite the whole thing to use YAML/deb822 instead of JSON files for repository format compliance.
Coincidentally there was a recent article covering Haruki Murakami's translators. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/haruki-m...

In my personal experience being a native speaker of both languages and having read some of his books in both languages, the translators take great care to preserve the reader's experience. I have great respect for their work.
Ideally yes, but there's a lot of hurdles to overcome. For many it would work just fine, but for other there's going to be minor details that makes it work less well.

Firstly we need to spread out peoples work day. We can't all be at the office a 8:00, and go home at 16:00. it wouldn't make economical sense in have a fleet large enough to handle peak hours, but have the cars do nothing most of the day.

There's also details like: I would like a car to pick me up at 15:45, and drive me to the kindergarten, and that car MUST have a seat for a three year old (but not a seat of brand X, Y, or Z, because they're to small). Or I need a car with a trailer, or a truck, because I'm moving 500kg of dirt to the recycling station.

Most people shop around for cars and pick very specific cars that fit their needs. So renting for a fleet of cars also need a rather large variety and flexibility in allowed usage.

I believe that many would still want to buy their own cars, even if it's self-driving, to ensure it's available when they need it, and that it fulfil their specific needs.

If we didn't have all these specific needs, most of us could just take the bus, which in turn would make it feasible to have all the bus routes people would need.
It returns you a random server with port 80 or 443 open.
mitigations=off doesn't disable this effect.
No idea, but here's another video of a different Waymo presentation showing the same point cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLLrZzljs8&t=5420s
In the UK we had Tomorrow's World [1] on the BBC, a must watch for any budding futurist. It was a pretty breathless experience to get some audio/video mixing software I was involved with demoed on the show in the late 1990's despite having stopped watching it a decade earlier.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_World
Perhaps that is because those skills are stereotypical or political and not actually all that valuable for success in life. I highly doubt that your wife (or humanity in general) would fail to care for babies were it not for home ec classes. However, some groups may, for better or for worse, have opinions predicting what happens to teen pregnancy rates in the face of such experience.
Early in my career- when I got evil twin error- I was conditioned not to daydream of clearcase ever. :)