skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is the behavior of some random humans relevant here?
So okay, you again assume that software is immutable. But Windows has to store these trusted keys somewhere. What if I emulate the TPM with a key I generated myself, and patch Windows to trust that key?
Thanks!

I intend to share the site with relevant communities on Reddit, Linkedin, Discord, and Facebook. I have started with this subreddit for example https://www.reddit.com/r/aerospace/comments/ooscp4/curated_j...
There is really good feedback, so that's a good sign.

I will also try to focus on SEO, and share new job posts on twitter to drive traffic.

I am building this project in public if you want to take a look
https://twitter.com/siglavesc2/status/1412524896903630854
Does the metal have to flow? Let it sit there and run cooling pipes through it. Every now and then turn off the fusion when you need to fire up the pumps and swap in new lead/lithium.

(Also, I'm dumb but beryllium is also a metal, how does it differ from lead in this respect?)
Just a paraphrasing of the original article, which was discussed 2 days ago (165 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27892615
The costs are not gone, they became externalities. If you're a SaaS customer, and wrote some code that (unwittingly) depends on the bug, now you have to rewrite it, for instance.
That doesn't seem like a fair representation. The quote there isn't saying you should expect totally free services. It's saying you have the right to expect not to be tracked. Advertising up until 20 years ago relied entirely upon context and behavioral and engagement studies were conducted on an opt-in basis on Nielsen families and focus groups composed either of volunteers or people being compensated for participating in market research.

It is quite different to say you have a right to no advertisements on free services, which is not what this is saying, and to say you have a right to expect not to have your every digital action surveilled and studied 24/7 for the purposes of advertisers getting free research subjects who often don't realize they're being used as research subjects, which is what this is saying.
Is it obviously true though?

More expensive, sure? But 100x? Is it not 50x? Or 300x? Without some actual measurements I'd want to put some very very big error bars on my feelings there!
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=jpeg returns 390 results. And that’s jpeg alone. It’s fairly common that you see some sort of media file format parsing bug to lead to command execution.
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I am scared of the masses believing nonsense. What fraction of Americans believe the election was stolen? How many people are still going to refuse to be vaccinated? Indeed, bad ideas are scary. I am scared that my country people will lead another insurrection or allow themselves to be a needlessly vulnerable vector for highly transmissible and dangerous virus.

Misinformation spreads like wildfire.

The notion that good speech counters bad speech relies on rational, well informed, critical thinking skills that are lacking in a significant portion of the populace.

It is fundamentally different that a company wants to exercise its right to free speech in choosing what is said on its platform than for a government to use free speech as a fig leaf cover for dissent.

Putting up no fight against misinformation and hate speech is not a winning strategy. Society loses much more from nonsense spreading than it does from having to wait 24 hours for high quality chess content to get remoderated.
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The fact you can install Linux doesn't mean a government won't force you to use another OS by other mean. Looking at the current news in France which is nominally a democracy, that could include forcing one to take unpaid work leave, denying access to vital (supermarkets) and social places (restaurants, any entertainment facility) and even hospital.
Yeah and when its commenters throwing around arguments that just don't apply here they're doing everyone a disservice.
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That particular page layout is called PAX, I believe [1].

[1] https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Database/pax.pdf
The US and Israeli governments approve the sales according to news articles I've found: so one thing preventing China from using Pegasus is the US government not green-lighting it.

Additionally: you can count on China already having comparable technology anyway.
The reason I feel interested in this is it seems we wouldn't need a vendor/model-specific 3D graphics driver in such a case. The vendors could just provide libraries implementing a standardized set of general purpose parallel calculation acceleration functions (e.g. OpenCL) and an app (or a vendor-agnostic 3D driver) would just use the vendor-agnostic interface to accelerate rendering-related calculations and then output to something like a VESA driver.

We still seem to be pretty far from there though.

It is also worth mentioning that actual 3D drivers have always been buggy. Seeing a mess of visual artifacts above or in place of the actual picture still is not and has never been anything unusual when using a driver which utilizes hardware graphics rendering functions. This is what got the idea into my mind in the first place. Too tired of swapping driver versions and hoping for the best. It's been more than 2 decades already and this still happens.

Another motivation might be just reducing the chip complexity which might occasionally help in improving power efficiency in some usage scenarios.
So control over all the computers in a country comes down to just a few keys held by "approved" manufacturers; or rather a single key, held by the government, which signs the list of approved manufacturer keys.

Then all they need to do is require that ISPs only allow packets to be sent by computers that have passed a Measured/Trusted Boot check, and suddenly all online activity is restricted to "approved" computers, running code from "approved" app stores.

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
First few books I tried weren't available, e.g. "Project Hail Mary"

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/059313...
You could make the exact argument about product managers..

This is why product managers / business can't be left to their own devices to decide when a product is launch ready. Not all bugs have same impact, and they are not experts to understand which are high impact.

This statement is just as true as yours. Doesn't mean you should ignore either one group to make a decision.
this is the study:

"If the cost of fixing a requirements error discovered during the requirements phase is defined to be 1 unit, the cost to fix that error if found during the design phase increases to 3 - 8 units; at the manufacturing/build phase, the cost to fix the error is 7 - 16 units; at the integration and test phase, the cost to fix the error becomes 21 - 78 units; and at the operations phase, the cost to fix the requirements error ranged from 29 units to more than 1500 units" [0]

[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100036670
Ok, so as long as I am not hospitalized with covid I am not putting anyone else’s life in danger. I’m lucky I am in one of the least effected demographics then. Of course no one knows whether or not they’ll have a good response but that’s a risk I’m willing to take based on the data I’ve seen.
What's there to prevent someone nop'ing out the code that implements the TPM functionality in Windows?

Nothing absolute, mainly a long series of annoying hurdles - including the constant barrage of updates.
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The knitting community has become very political in the past few years. And a lot of people feel left out. My point being that just about every facet of life has been invaded by political stances that nobody wanted to be involved in and some are left to conform or feel pushed out.
Except you're the one who's lying ...? Weird.
And I would offer does not match the experience of those working on web apps with large amounts of at-rest data. Internet connected services are subjected to constantly changing data inputs which break software unexpectedly. The only place to see these data outliers is production. The companies that make this automated, auditable, safe and repeatable win.
It's also marked as not self hostable despite the comment above mentioning it running on Raspberry Pis.
jkhdigital is right.

Also, bear in mind that our average user in Spain takes out 50$, whilst their salary is >1,000$. We also regularly survey users to see chat reasons they make withdrawals for. Our conclusion is users are taking small portions of their salary to cover unexpected expense.

It’s so much better than paying for an expensive overdraft!
Yeah and you don't know how the research organization works that produced that research, so ...
I appreciate the commentary. I feel most of this effectively boils down to "it depends". Clearly, there is no one-size-fits-all solution that can make everyone happy all the time, especially considering all the constraints & variables present across the entire vertical.

Where your datacenters are geographically located is usually a big first step in even starting these types of conversations. The nature of "maybe sync replication represents a liability or is feasible" might be a conversation about the geography of a region and statistical likelihood of certain disasters impacting multiple sites simultaneously.

Some customers cant ever afford to lose a single transaction no matter what, some just need it to be reasonably stable but incredibly fast (e.g. gaming vs banking).

Will definitely be spending some time reviewing Lamport's works again. Establishing the notion of stable time between all participants is a fascinating way to solve a lot of problems in distributed systems.
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Yes, it works and it sort of scales.

Why, then, does the outrage porn rise to the top of the Reddit home page?

Because it measurably increases sales in a huge way right now.

To use a baseball analogy, how do you tell a juiced to the gills superstar that steroids are actually hurting their long-term outlook?

There’s no way to show Barry Bonds a future in which he’s shadow banned from the hall of fame and unmentionable even on his own teams broadcasts.

The change will come either with regulation or when a new, better system comes along and steals their users.
Any luck holding Microsoft, Google or Apple accountable for issues in their operating systems?
Because they don't want to randomly attack people for no reason, other than you?
It's not about what's most important to one's identity, it's about what's more harmful in present times. Racism is still deeply harmful, in a way that making fun of the French/British/Americans/whatever isn't. A lot of the latter just devolves into mostly good-natured international ribbing, about Yanks being fat, the French being smelly, British food sucking, etc.

Also, it's easy to say that one's perceived race isn't important if that's not an issue that affects you, but if you were black and were experiencing frequent racism from people merely looking at you (not otherwise even interacting with you in a way that could allow them to determine your national identity), then you might sing a different tune. I'm a white American, and my experiences at home and abroad are much different to those of black Americans, for reasons having everything to do with perceived race. In most countries you will be treated substantially differently if you're visiting as a white westerner vs a black one. That has nothing to do with national origin and everything to do with racism.

Anyway, point is, all the differences I identified plus all the ones you identified mean that the two are quite different and aren't equivalent.
... in a world where 4channers can anonymously spray sparks at gas stations and do it for the lulz, and it costs $1000 each time you tell someone to stop smoking at the pump.

(That is, the policy is expensive, and there are numerous other hard-to-monitor causes of fires.)
The benign market of people that use said self-defense weapons on schools and shopping malls?
There are fuel resistant rubbers available, most commonly Viton/FKM. They are commonly used in automotive applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKM
The difficulty is that without a largish anti-zionist and anti-semitic contigent, this would be just another ethnic conflict in a tiny country -- the kind we regularly ignore. That's not a good thing, but the inconsistency happens in part because there are people pushing it to happen for racist reasons.

There's practically no way to engage in it without engaging with anti-semitic elements. You have to ask yourself why you're engaging it at all, rather than any of thousands of other ethnic conflicts you could be picking. To come up with an answer, you have to engage the whole question -- which also means dealing with the inherent anti-semitism.

I need to make abundantly clear that none of this is intended to excuse any of the abuses the Israeli government is engaging. Just because the well is poisoned doesn't mean that there aren't genuine atrocities being committed, and that they may well merit sanctions.

But it really figures into your very last assertion: the best reason to avoid foreign entanglements is that you probably don't understand them. And picking some subset of foreign entanglements will always leave you open to incoherent actions, especially when you've picked that subset for reasons you never fully understood in the first place.
There are the Tex Gyre fonts, but part of what makes Computer Modern in LaTeX look so good is the typesetting quality.

I believe TeX actually solves a convex optmization problem to find the optimum inter-word spacing for each line while considering every line on the page. That's why you don't get those crazy large spacings in LaTeX that you sometimes see in Word.
That is a line that signatories of the Wassenar arrangement cannot take. Israel is not officially a signatory but their own laws pull-requests the Wassenar arrangement and its amendments.

The agreement legislates what dual-use systems (that is weapons systems that also have civilian use) can countries export and under what legal obligations and conditions.

According to the agreement, producer/seller of dual use weapons systems is under obligation to ensure that the buyer is not abusing the weapon. Break in compliance makes the producer/seller culpable.

I think what this means is that if a country wants they can find legal ways of making Israel culpable. Realistically though, I doubt USA will let that happen.
Depends whose side you're on.
> I don't see why small encounters that result in one or two deaths would be totally unexpected.

And if you, in your grand wisdom, don't see it, it cannot be the case. Yeah.
Nice statistics, your source is reliable and the numbers are impressive and trustworthy.

And it doesn't change the fact I’ve posted.
As an alternative, one can also use User Mode Linux (UML) to implement a pretty fancy chroot (and fakeroot).

It can do a few things userns can't, like load kernel modules. I've had to use this to deal with bugs in BtrFS before.
> would never run something like pegasus on a cloud or connected to the internet.

Intel agencies use the cloud extensively for all sorts of use cases. This is 100% fact. Google “Amazon C2E”
I just finished reading The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. A fascinating aspect of the book is how no one expected two unknowns to solve a problem governments had been pouring money into [1] with no success. Every one of the high profile players of the time were failures.

You may be quick to point out that fusion is different from airplanes - requiring vastly more money and resources. Except that that's also the same argument people thought was true about airplanes in 1900! Anyway, all of this to say if history is our guide than I have my doubts about ITER and the rest of the high profile projects. If fusion is to ever make headway I think it will be from some little known cheap operation in a way no one expects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Langley#Aviation_work
> On HN, if a comment is well-written and appears to be made in good faith but is (in my opinion) wrong, I neither upvote nor downvote, I reply.

And this is evil being done as good men stay silent.

There might indeed be many that are not so petulant that they would downvote an otherwise non rule-breaking comment they disagree with, but few of them will find themselves upvoting something they disagree with either, and there will still be some that downvote it.

Thus, an unpopular opinion that otherwise contributes will eventually be downvoted for not receiving enough upvotes.
I think this is the wrong question, because candidates are never equal (mostly due to the number of variables involved).

The better question is if one candidate has a strong set of work experience but no side projects, and another candidate has an underwhelming set of work experience but a strong set of side projects, does one get valued over the other or are they given equal weight?

If they aren't given equal weight, do you understand the reasoning why (or is it just because they think side projects are cool and want people like themselves).
She killed herself while her children were home. I’d say that’s the reason.
Not sure if this is helpful, there are some notes at cthulix.com.
Self hosting e-mail? With the trust issues you get with small mail servers these days, I've got better things to do than worry if that job application ever reached their inbox.
>HN isn't anti-science.

Oh yes it is. We're not just talking about criticisms of individual papers here; this site often has comments disparaging science as a whole, calling it a "new religion", etc. If that isn't anti-science, then there isn't such a thing.

Moreover, typical commenters here do not apply evidence, critical thinking, and scientific process appropriately. They usually find something easy to nitpick that gives them the appearance of thinking critically, then they conclude that the research is trash. See: the recent article on caffeine.

It's one giant fallacy fallacy masquerading as deep conversation.
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What defense is that when it gets misused in schools and shopping malls?
I've seen some managers who like to turn your estimates into a stick they can beat you with. They can never be satisfied.
Our average user in Spain withdraws 50$, but their monthly salary is >1,000$. We also regularly survey users to see chat reasons they make withdrawals for.

Our conclusion is users are taking small portions of their salary to cover unexpected expenses.

Users tell us they love this, because otherwise they would have had to ask a friend for money.
This line of thinking ends with "companies are evil." It's not totally wrong, but it's perhaps not a useful framing.

Businesses make money in all sorts of ways. Most big companies blend these together. NYTimes charges users AND sells ads. Enterprise SaaS sells licenses AND charges for installation and configuration services. App store widgets charge for download AND sell aggregate data.

Brand gets undersold in a lot of tech/startup communities, because those communities are frequently organized around doing new things, which necessarily don't have brands. But the answer to a lot of these problems IS brands, because brands are a proxy for trust.

At some point, if you want a service, you have to decide which company you trust the most to deliver it without misleading you or doing things you disagree with. Most businesses run without constant lawsuits keeping them in line, because trust and word of mouth and reputation matters.

If you can't trust anybody, then don't use computers, I guess. But the world is shades of gray, and I do think it's worthwhile to figure out which companies you do trust.
over abundance of guns does kill people, though. that we could imagine that this shouldn’t be the case doesn’t really matter in the real world.

the idea that we can scatter tools of enormous power around and just not worry about it is crazy
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I thought the numbers came from:

Boehm, B.W. 1976. “Software Engineering.” IEEE Transactions on
Computer SE-1(4):1226-1241.

As cited in "The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing" by RTI.

https://www.nist.gov/document/report02-3pdf

Pretty sure that both of those papers exist, and the NIST table cites up to 990x and refers to the 76 Boehm paper, not any IBM org.
> The industrial revolution freed us from the burden of physical labor, and provided plentiful food.

Sure, but that happened well before WWII, while the obesity epidemic started sometime around 1970-1980 and is growing rapidly. The vast majority of the US population in 1950-60 had all the food that they could possibly want, and yet <1% of them were obese, versus 30% percent today.

> One would expect Louisiana (Mississippi delta) to be substantially worse than Kentucky (more mountainous and well-upstream of Louisiana) and Michigan (situated on the Great Lakes). Michigan and Louisiana are similar, and Kentucky is much worse.

I don't know enough US geography to be able to sustain this point one way or another. I will just mention that the CDC data is not the only piece of data the article uses to show this correlation between altitude and BMI, but leave it at that.
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I was mortified by Cortana auto-extracting todos from private emails but my father in his late 50’s said it was neat and very useful for him. So it goes.
God forbid the milkman guarantee their customers are happy with the milk.
Have you been to a knitting forum lately? Holy shit they were one of the first to get heavily politicizes. You'll be ostracized from r/knitting if you're not left of Stalin.
On Linux, you can do

unshare --user --mount --map-root-user chroot /path/to/whatever

and if you need to bind-mount some directories, you can do that before the chroot, e.g.,

$ unshare --user --mount --map-root-user
# mount --bind /proc /path/to/whatver/proc
# mount --bind /proc /path/to/whatver/sys
# chroot /path/to/whatever

without being root. (This requires a sysctl to be enabled for unprivileged user namespaces, which is on by default in the kernel.org tree and I think all major distro kernels have it on now. The feature has been in the upstream kernel since 2013.)

If you want to do this at scale, a handy tool is bwrap(1) from https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap . (The README talks about how bwrap is a setuid program to prevent the need for that sysctl, but it also works great as a non-setuid program when that sysctl is enabled, and its value is it has a bunch of handy command-line flags for this sort of thing. We use it extensively at my workplace in non-setuid mode for things that don't quite need containers but need to see alternative root directories etc.)
Same is true for advertising, here it is called banner blindness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

The advertising industry has probably some counter measures.
A spyware company denying their connection to a list that would cause them embarrassment is so unsurprising that we should probably simply ignore it — not a relevant data point.

While I agree "the media" ought to back up their data with sources I think we can agree that data like this is only going to be provided with extraordinary precautions. Therefore I am also unsurprised that the source has not been revealed.

I'm probably more skeptical than the average person (the past so many years has convinced me of that) but if you're going to suggest this list of phone numbers is a plant and part of a conspiracy you ought to at least suggest who would be behind this and why. That "the media" made this up whole cloth strains credibility.