skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well unless you are building everything from source (after auditing software), you end up trusting someone for the executable (packaged by distro maintainers). Distros like Gentoo solve this pretty well by giving a good suite of build tools, Nevertheless it's too bothersome for most users. Arch distributes it's package signing abilities to multiple maintainers who can revoke each other's keys. which imo is better than trusting a downloaded exe signed by Microsoft.

Open source has one really good benefit, Having more eyes on the code, which means less likely a bug goes undetected. It also means reduced effort for finding bugs. Though imo Linux is arguably more safer because if it's smaller surface area.

I think Linux (with additions like AppArmor/SELinux) is definitely more than enough for most high profile people. That coupled with Good Security practices (not running untrusted binaries, using end-to-end encrypted mediums for communication) imo should deter 99.9% of those surveillance attacks.
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What were you supposed to do if Walmarts insulin wasnt available?

Just... die?
That doesn't seem to square with the progress civilization has made over the last several centuries. We no longer torture animals, treat humans as property, believe in the 'evil eye', etc.
That's largely an orthogonal point. You may be suspicious of USDT or USDC's claim. But the point is that at least some fraction of the market is not, which is why USDT trades at $1.00.

Now that may turn out in the future to be revealed to be a sham, and the market will lose faith. But right now USDT only has market value because some segment of people believe in the promises made by the Tether Corporation. If I fork the chain, and I'm running a clone of USDT, and the Tether Corp says "there are no promises behind that token", then very clearly forked-USDT will be worth zero.
Sometime in 2017/18 it has been found that one of the biggest bottlenecks for the network were propagation speeds and that those were largely weighed down by disk writes. Thus pretty much the whole network switched to SSDs and things improved tremendously. Some other networks have implemented stateless clients and Ethereum has been working on going in that direction for a while with a lot of effort being dedicated to it this year specifically.
If you use spinning rust for the initial sync you’ll most likely never catch up.

If you have craploads of RAM to allocate to ARC, you may actually be able to do it on ZFS I guess.
> Basically every random walk down the timeline leads to 100% of coins lost in the course of time.

Rather, I believe it will result in the remaining 20% being held by a few exchanges, whose endgame will be to still charge the fees but just balance them internally without actually costing anything.
Well if you live in the US - not really.

If you live in a more populous state like California, you have much less voting power in the Senate and somewhat less voting power in the house and the executive office.

I can much more easily leave a company that I don’t like than the government. A company does not have the power of the state to impose its will on me.

This is the same government that less than a year ago wanted to come down on Saturday Night Live for being mean and is passing laws on the state level right now to forbid teachers from teaching history that doesn’t conform to it’s world view.

It never ceases to amaze me that people want to give the same entity more power that can and will actually take your freedom away.
I think this is likely the reason it was done too.

The snide remarks from the documentary maker; “We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.” make it seem like he is trying to get a fire burning around this.
It's been there since april 2020

https://web.archive.org/web/20200428011901/https://support.g...
Can't archived apps still be restored as long as your iCloud account was used to install it?
PS. There are no ordinals of intermediate cardinality between ω<sub>0</sub> and ω<sub>1</sub>.
> we have made many active attempts to communicate our existence to other hypothetical civilisations

Spamming aliens with nude selfies, among other measures, which in retrospect may not have been a wise choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
I'm sure they will immediately start their crackdown on nigh all religious scriptures hosted there, not to mention on many “scientific facts” that become public knowledge but were actually disproved a long time ago.
>the origins of the technology focus in Silicon Valley

it's sad to me that most SV focus now is about how to sell more stuff to people whether that's through direct advertising or creating "social" platforms where people get to "influence" you into buying something or paying for something
> Cops have come to hospitals where their off-duty drunk buddy runs a red light and t-boned someone else, and demanded nurses do blood draws (without a warrant) of the other party looking for intoxication, and then arrested the nurse for refusing.

If you are referring to the incident in Salt Lake City, you might be pleased to know that the nurse in question ended up getting a $500,000 settlement: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/01/561337106...

edit: Oh, and the cop was fired, too.
I think this is a really good point, and I think that if anyone is really committed to promoting free-speech-maximalist approach to the web they should be focused on building tools that make is easier for people to host and distribute their own content without relying on a centralized service.

Any business with the technical ability to censor what they host is going to be tempted (and likely pressured by other actors) to take down content that people find objectionable. Removing these "chokepoints" where a small number of people have the ability to engage in mass censorship is key if you want to promote more diverse speech on the web. (Not everyone has this goal!)
I think dryness did some damage on cornea. It's better some rare days (which feels like a beautiful dream) but mostly I see lights, moon, stars any bright light with dark background as starburst or multiples. Even moon :(
This is California. I guarantee with 100% certainty that this is going to fail. They will be late. They will be over-budget. Tax payers fund government officials earning in excess of $250k to go to meetings after meetings of regulatory compliance. In the end, they'll decide to dump more of tax payer money into it after delays of Phase I followed by threats based on sunken cost fallacy, and before you know, the technology has moved on and it is year 2035.
I'm honestly surprised that virtual celebs haven't taken over more. They could replace people in a lot of roles like newscasters and such.
I've been thinking about a programming language where parts of speech are flexible, so if you define a "square" function you could write both "square 3" and "3 squared".
No problem, Don Hopkins.
I never liked this explanation alone.

The full explanation is that the + and - terminals are a virtual short. Negative feedback will try to set the + and - terminals to the same voltage but no current flows between the two locations.

The amount of current (and the limitations of voltages) are set by the quality of the opamp. Better opamps have closer voltages at faster speeds at better currents.

Cheaper opamps will have a bit of error and diverge from the model. The delay can be largely modeled by capacitance over the + and - terminals (among other models of opamp errors)

But even a cheap opamp will keep the + and - sides within .05 Volts or so under typical circumstances.
I don’t think he was talking about search results. Rather other Google products like Drive. People used to share Hollywood films on Drive, for example.
I'm curious about her work and plan to read up more into it as well! I've used the analogy metaphor as well, but commonly describe problem solving in CS via Solowoy's 'basic recurring plans' [1]. A lot of our approaches toward tasks are to utilize personal templates that we've accrued over training. When I need to build an API, I use the same basic design that I've done half a dozen times now.

Some of my prior comments also talk about how this is same approach in martial arts. You are training techniques to develop muscle memory so you can apply them when a particular pattern appears. Then, a term I've used in the dojo and the classroom is that our goal is to "neutralize the attack/problem" into one of our pre-known templates.

[1] Soloway, E., & Ehrlich, K. (1984). Empirical studies of programming knowledge. - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5010283
They don’t mention other benefits rather than just the pay package. And nowadays, not allowing remote work.
In 2006/07 they bought YouTube and Doubleclick. That is the inflection point on the evil meter.
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well, if one is going around hiring sex workers, they'd need to contact a pimp, right?
It makes sense when you want to use your open source project at work, rather than having it completely separate from work. It might be possible to work on it as 20% time if it’s plausible that projects at Google might use it. You could talk about it at promotion time. And at the same time, you’ll still be able to use it if you leave the company.

This is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Most code you work on at work isn’t open source at all.

Alternatively, you could have a side project that’s completely separate from your job.
"You're letting people walk around? Outside? Isn't that dangerous?"
Amazing, thanks for the pointer to Yves Klein.

I’ve seen blue man group live and they have an otherworldly look in person, and I suspect it’s related to this phenomenon.

I really like his combination of blue and grey images.
For example: Say you run a printing business; starting or assisting a group that, say, talks about your local schools could be useful no just because of ones own interest int he schools, but because that group can be encouraged to distribute a lot of printed pamphlets.

I have seen nonprofits with associated with a for-profit services business that shared directors. An ISP geared to serving the general public doesn't want controversial political customers, so they needed their own ISP. In theory those can be as real a business as any other.

How moral and upright all this is depends on the people involved; there's plenty of examples of outright scummy operations I'm sure; probably mostly the larger and more famous end of the spectrum. There's lots of small organizations full of good people doing good work and making an honest living at it, too.
Sure, you'd have to invent the rest, but TrueTime isn't about having perfect clocks, it's about estimating the error of your peer's clocks. Having a reasonable platform clock is a good starting point, and addresses the problems discussed in the Jane Street article.
I really don’t see the hard part. Just because we consider something to be harmful and negative (like propaganda) doesn’t mean making it illegal is desirable.

Even for the things that are illegal, it can be illegal to publish something but legal to provide connectivity services to the offender.

Net neutrality is not a delicate balance.

Or what’s a tricky edge case you have in mind?
> If the store is a small business, the profits are what the owner uses to afford rent and food. So, how is that morally dissimilar?

The store owner is hoping to turn the labor of their employees into profits for themselves, not mere subsistence. When they pay their employees less than a livable wage, they are in effect demanding that the state subsidize their business in the form of food stamps for their employees.

If a company cannot afford to break even while paying livable wages for their employees, then it isn’t a sustainable model and I would like to see it go out of business and have the owners get new jobs themselves; jobs that I would advocate for paying a living wage for.

> There is absolutely no reason a normal, healthy adult offering 40 hours per week of effort should not be able to produce far more than minimum wage levels of value.

If we agree that an adult should be able to easily make more than that, why would you allow businesses to pay less?

> If there's an abundance of jobs paying well above minimum wage, then it doesn't matter what the minimum wage is because people will have better options and the market will determine what price people are willing to accept to do what work. We're already seeing this as people have better options and are refusing to do lower paid work.

Your position is incoherent. Raising the minimum wage would hurt workers by taking away jobs, while at the same time nobody is paid the minimum wage because labor is demanding better pay. Which is it?
The problem is the government is pushing the same agenda
The term Linear Design generally applies to things that have analog signals, as opposed to Digital Design (which is, of course never completely digital).

RF design is the darkest of the arts.
I'm not sure what the distinction is between the two. Is one of those having a verified system to ensure that you are compliant, while the other is merely being compliant but unprovably so?
Why are we not all using

sshfp

records? They seem quite useful even without dnssec. Or is the lack of dnssec the only reason they’re not/little used?
Those people probably either (or both) of do not understand the nature of the issue(s) and/or are just as happy being somewhere where they won't be issue(s) for a long time as somewhere that's managed to prevent them in perpetuity.
Interesting we are talking about this now and not when the commercial production "Sassy Justice" came out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

Arguably Sassy Justice is worse, Donald Trump is alive, and I don't think Sassy Justice was an attack, but it wan't flattering either. Sassy Justice was not audio, somewhat clear satire but no warnings.

It reminds me when Boko Haram kidnapped the 200 Chibok schoolgirls, they killed and kidnapped 1000's of school boys first. You don't have to like Trump or care about boys but it can come back to bite you.

I just hope synthetic media in docos is pointing out to people doco's aren't the truth tellers people think they are. They are entertainment not purveyors of truth.
Carbs are fine in terms of efficiency but because you can't run the engine as precisely you get more hydrocarbon and nox emissions.

Both types of pollution have been studied in pretty great detail and I suspect that if they were linked to dementia we'd at least suspect it by now.
They’re built to the best of our ability with materials we can build. It’s not like “oh, we can build them better but that’ll eat into next quarters profits”.

Most of these devices are literally the pinnacle of what we can reliably crank out in number.

If someone made an immortal hard drive, they’d be FUCKING RICH, because every elevator control system that gets forgotten about in a wall somewhere and industrial process control system would pay whatever it cost to just handle that.
Capacitors are linear but stateful, so would be memristors. I am not sure you characterization is correct.
This approach depends on the level of transaction isolation being used, and relying on the higher levels is a foot gun best avoided unless you really know what you are doing and the consequences you are... erm... locking yourself into.
There are literally bitcoin ATMs in convenience stores. It's trying really hard to act as a currency, so I'm not sold on this motion at all.

Furthermore,

> Stated simply, “[o]rdinary people in everyday life know this [i.e., that bitcoin is not money] intuitively; the average person who hears the term ‘money’ will think of government-issued ‘dollars’ or instruments, like checks, money orders, credit cards, or notes, directly connected to dollars.”

This is making pretty unsubstantiated claims about "ordinary people", who are using apps like Venmo and "Cash" (Square Cash) more and more. Thinking of a cryptocurrency as a form of money seems perfectly understandable, even if false.
Is there a browser extension that does this?
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>They're unlikely to die just sitting there without power

Actually they will likely die shortly after you use them again.
HDDs have bearings and they are lubricated. The lubricant ages and might even collect at the lowest point in the bearing.
Once the disk is powered up after many years the bearings will no longer be properly lubricated they get warm expand and destroy themself.
The HDD could run for a few minutes or several hundred hours before it starts to make weird sounds and vibrations and turn itself off to prevent further damage or it keeps going until something dies (common for older models).

>multiple redundant copies should cover any issues with single-device failure.

Certainly needed but in the end its probably not worth the time. I would need dozens of such disks to get the few TB in backup space that I need.

BTW fans in PCs and laptops die for the same reason as described above.
Its common for old laptops to make weird noises and overheat after they where left untouched for years.
I quit due to anxiety attacks. After 1 drag of basically anything (chronic, cheap shit, indica, sativa, you name it), it would take no longer than 1 minute to begin.

Every time I explain that, in roll the fans telling me I'm somehow doing it wrong. I smoked the shit daily for years, I knew the ins and out of weed.

It just leads to issues with some people, as you said.
DRM manages freedom like jail manages freedom.
COVID has become the modern "think of the children". Used to justify every authoritarian action in the name of safety.
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Article does mention Chrome 0-day Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-21166 and CVE-2021-30551) and a Office Vulnerability (CVE-2021-33742). Knowing these were targeted attacks, It could have been as easy as sending a innocent looking email with a innocent looking link (something like blacklivesmatters[.]info). That combined with the Windows privilege acceleration attacks, could get the spyware insane amount of access. Considering these individuals (politicians, journalists) probably dealt with a lot of mail everyday, this could easily have gone undetected.

This really gives you a perspective on how big this company is, having the resources and incentive to do these exploits instead of reporting it.
> I want my desktop designed for me, from me.

Right but when you write it out like that can you see how it doesn’t make sense to expect that from a company? Not reasonable to complain when you don’t get it.
Handwritten notes on paper are not, the last I checked, mass produced, yet can survive centuries to millennia, with proper care.

On durable digital media, you'd need something that's writable at least once, and then remarkably inert. There've been some proposals for data cubes or crystals which look as if they might fit that bill, such as Microsoft's Project Silica:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

Whether that's intended to be (or can be adapted) for home / small office use isn't clear.

Magneto-optical storage seems to be pretty robust, but after a brief heyday in the late 1990s, has disappeared off my radar. I'm not finding any current product offerings, and Wikipedia seems to confirm this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive

Tape has supported longer duration storage, but still is mostly limited to a few decades. Delamination and demagnitisation are both problems.

Paper in the form of punched cards, punched tape, or print-encoded paper digital storage (I've run across a reference to this) are actually ... among the more durable if less dense options out there. They're far from ideal, but might back at least some forms of storage.

Some CDROM formats claim 10,000 year potential, though you need to know what you're looking for:

Write-once BD-R HTL (High To Low) can last for 100 to 150 years given a relatively mild environment—i.e., not on your dashboard in Phoenix. Milleniatta’s M-Disc BD-R and DVD+R write-once discs use an even more stable data layer that is rated for 10,000 years.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2984597/hard-core-data-prese...

Most of the interesting work here is probably with libraries and archivalists. The US Library of Congress has some pages on CD-R / DVD-4 longevity:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/cd-r_dv...

There's a UNESCO project:

https://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/subject/14/Digita...

But I'm coming up thin on solid suggestions or research.
> There’s been a lot of work over the decades on analogical reasoning

Do you have any good references besides Mitchell's Copycat and French's Tabletop books/thesis?
> For example, if your computer can encrypt things without a backdoor then authorities cannot listen. But if it can't then by definition it is not a general purpose computer.

No. The user could still deliberately chooose to run a different back-doored encryption software on the same computer. The definition still holds.
How did you expect a decentralized, consensus-driven network to operate without some level of consensus? You think 1 node forks should be as viable as 10,000 node forks?
Not only latency but possibly also the cost / availability of massive egress. This is why e.g. YouTube has local caches around the world. Other heavily-hit caches with heavy content may make sense, too; I can't easily imagine a case beside serving video, though.
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> and others may choose to, or not to, use it under my license.

Fair use essentially means you can use the work without a license. As long as its ‘fair’. The license might literally say ‘no fair use’, but if you’re not abiding by the terms of the license it means nothing.

You can put anything in a license you want, but it doesn’t mean it will stand up in a court of law.
Yeah, the main purpose is just distinctness. Allowing it to jump ahead helps it guarantee this.
I wonder how hard it would be to spoof that your computers are using Russian as the default language so that the code wont execute in your environment?
Materials don’t work like that.

Best case, some TINY, TINY fraction of Papyrus survived, and most of it is illegible at best.

And most of that only survived because of careful recopying by the priest / cleric hood.

Tl;dr materials degrade as soon as you manufacture something with them. Your only hope long term is careful backups to fresh media.
All of the major platforms of today will surely be replaced eventually. Snapchat and TikTok came seemingly out of nowhere in roughly the same FAANG environment as today.
I just earned points for sharing this Coin Circle link with you. https://coincircle.com/l/MfQ1A5wNq_
I heard similar stories for private companies too...
Just started reading it, but I noticed that in the chronology, in 1979 for C with Classes “public/private” is listed. Was “protected” a later addition?