skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In discussing the example of the loser-ing problem:

> The right thing is to back out and restore the user program PC to the instruction that invoked the system routine

The concept of “backing out” is left unspecified in the first place which is suspicious, but also there’s no guarantee that it will always succeed. In the-right-thing, what if backing out fails? Or some effect has taken place which can’t be simply “backed out”? You’re left with the same problem anyway.

Maybe those dumb old Unix guys were on to something after all.
I guess that he joined Google because he is pissed with Apple and joined Microsoft because he is pissed with Google as well.
Relative to pretty much all other markets, it's practically impossible to solve homelessness in San Francisco. There are at least two major considerations. The first is the one you pointed out that there are far too many barriers. The second is that San Francisco is a fundamentally hard city to succeed in. Even competent folks with good educations and no real personal problems struggle to do well in San Francisco. If it is hard for such people, it's only going to be far more difficult for people without the same education and with many personal problems.

With these two major constraints in mind, it boggles my mind that we continue to try and solve the problem in San Francisco, instead of directing all the resources to other markets without these constraints.

Providing resources elsewhere and removing support in San Francisco will serve to incentivize the homeless to relocate to places where programs like housing first can be tried and where they have a chance of actually getting on their own two feet because they aren't in a hyper-competitive local market.

Last time someone asked me to donate money to the homeless problem in San Francisco, I told them no, but then proceeded to donate money to a homeless program in another city (at the time I chose a program in Sacremento) because it's beyond stupid to keep putting money into trying to solve the problem in San Francisco if you actually want to see results from the money you spend on the problem.

People working on this problem in San Francisco either have more heart than brains or they are part of the San Francisco homelessness industrial complex and have a vested interest in keeping these programs in San Francisco because they want to live in San Francisco and are employed in this industry.

Social worker salaries in San Francisco are $60k to $100k a year. If you can pay for two to three social workers in other markets instead for the same price, why pay for such people to work in San Francisco.
And yet, there are quite a few solo wins. I think somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of races get won solo?

The advantage of the solo strategy is that everyone behind you is trying to put in less effort than the others behind you. So they can get stuck in a game theoretical tragedy of the commons.
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I put 'standard' in quotes and meant that it (and its derivatives) was widespread. I'm sure not all companies used it, perhaps it also varied by domain. My experience is that it was indeed common, and still somewhat is. I read at my first job 20 years ago we had to take a training on the V model, which is derived from the waterfall model. It has also always been common in my experience to write plenty of detailed specs before writing any code, for instance.

I don't see much value in debating this. It seems clear to me that the people who wrote the Agile manifesto have experience in working in such, or similar environment and reacted to change it. And clearly that way of working was widespread enough and enough of a pain point to strike a cord. Certainly, when I first read the manifesto it struck a cord and I understood exactly where they were coming from. I think it is spot on.
Does it mean that the protocol has big corporation monopoly built in by design? I am not familiar with the details, but by the sound of it why is this even legal?
That's good parenting on your part, in my opinion.
100% this. I have a system with a fanless PSU from Seasonic, 3 Noctua case fans and a Noctua CPU heatsink/CPU fan. I couldn't be happier with it. It is completely drowned out by any background noise (for example, the sound of typing, the hum of the AC, etc) and gives off a very, very faint whooshing sound when the house is truly silent. Personally I like the sound, it's the sound of high-end Austrian engineering working perfectly. I highly recommend Noctua fans.
A similar amazing technology has been recently shown at a Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. And the magnetocaloric approach sounds even more promising!

https://www.ipm.fraunhofer.de/en/press-publications/press-re...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKtc0cHrUg
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But it's not just about economic benefit. Most people don't work to afford toys for themselves, they work to support others. At the end of the article, this guy expresses sadness that he's estranged from his two children as a result of his choices, but then attempts to justify it by saying he's not going to let having children keep him from making a better world for his children - a world in which there is no money. I would think his kids would probably prefer having a father who was present for them than one who couldn't see them because he'd deluded himself into thinking that a complete lack of effort was his way of saving the world.

If you can't take part in your children's lives as a result of your choice not to take part in the economy, then you're sort of failing at both moral standards aren't you?
I don't buy this. I know plenty of unhappy rural people and unhappy uneducated people.

And statistically, going by social issues they don't do well either.
There was another set of labourers before the industrial revolution - animals.

They don't have much work nowadays since their jobs in all industries were replaced with automation.
It seems to be human nature that people are more happy to talk about misfortune than about lucky events. 60% are thriving. But the 40% that are not probably have a much stronger opinion about things. So you'll hear the loud "minority".
In hot housing markets there is nowhere near enough supply to meet demand.

The price per square foot is reflective of what the market will pay, first and foremost. The large cost premium in hot cities suggest that the unmet supply of apartment is much larger in percentage terms than the unmet supply of single family housing. In my area rents are already recovered from their COVID slump and still rising.
Contrary to what right-wing media claims (curiously, only during Democratic presidencies), deficit spending isn't actually bad.
How is intuitionistic type theory a "better" foundation? As a simple example, where can I find a statement of Brouwer's fixpoint theorem in an intuitionistic type theory, and how is it better stated than its classical counterpart?
We'll, we're mostly tech folks or appreciative of tech: we don't mind, and even encourage, a few levels of redundancy :)

In this case you never know what will get noticed an upvoted to the attention of others. Some repetition for of various viewpoints, especially when made with different nuances, is a good thing.
Do you know why is this a closed shop? Is there a legal reason or whichever corporation controls it ensured that they have a monopoly? Is there a way to open this up?
Memory safety is literally the only relevant topic in this whole thread whose impact isn't "truthy" in that sense! We can measure how many bugs and security vulnerabilities in real projects are memory issues, and we know that a memory safe language would rule those bugs out by construction.

And we have! This blog post[1] is a good starting point, linking to a number of studies. Empirical evidence is never perfect, but that's much stronger evidence than we have for the impact of pretty much any other aspect of a programming languages!

[1]: https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
TVWS channel allocations often don't align neatly with duplex paired 3GPP bands, meaning you might need multiple adjacent TVWS channels.

In addition, in many countries the TVWS regulations only cover specifically authorised devices which adhere to TVWS standards (which 3GPP doesn't), and create a whole host of challenges for the client devices (handsets), which don't understand TVWS rules, and need their transmit power to be controlled by the base station, which isn't necessarily aware of the client location, or authorised within TVWS rules to query the TVWS database on behalf of the client.
I see your point and I used to think this too to an extent but I think it’s worth appreciating that we are looking from the outside in to a highly specialized domain and like most of these domains it has developed its own unique set of language and definitions. And that paper is written for people in that domain / community, not for those outside of it.
What do you mean by "carrier profile"? An eSIM profile?
I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but if covid was made in a lab this seems like the biggest grift of all time. I can't imagine how much of that money just disappeared.
Is there any domain other than com/edu/gov that’s actually used for its official meaning, and isn’t hosted by a government body?

I feel like 99% of .ly sites have nothing to do with libya
That looks like unadjusted dollars? It's a crazy graph, as the biggest pre-pandemic event in USA fiscal history (World War II) is simply invisible on this graph. As a point of comparison USA debt hit 101% of GDP in 1946, a level we only rose above recently, because of the pandemic:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
>Yes. Signal's only selling point is privacy. Both of these bugs are huge privacy breaches that kill its value proposition.

Absolutely agree. However, you should always look at the bigger picture

a) How was the issue handled? What was the priority? Did they try to downplay it? Was the type of vulnerability patched altogether?

b) If a) merits for change, what's the alternative that has better overall security, UX, existing userbase, and track record.

Personally, I'd rather take a product with good public incident handling track record, than one without anything on public record.

>One of the main worries with companies having access to your unencrypted private data is that no matter how careful they are with it, it can still end up in the wrong hands. Signal is directly sending your data into the wrong hands.

Categorical label of "wrong hands" is unnecessarily ominous. Company with access to your private data can lead to that data being sold, or stolen by nation states / organized crime. You sending nudes / sensitive documents to your friend on Signal is less dangerous, although it can be much more embarrassing. Your peer probably isn't going to sell it to the highest bidder (or was it the case the recipient could be any Signal user? IIUC that was not the case)
Does aws have anything analogous to Microsoft’s azure free tier where you have some free quota monthly ?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/
These are interesting data, but heavily sensationalized, overinterpreted and editorialized - as per usual from this notorious "tabloid journal", as statistics professor Andrew Gelman calls them.

For example, the methodology for detecting "cognitive distortions" is extremely simplistic, relying on short phrases like "I am a", "everyone thinks", and "still feels". It is far from clear what an increase in people saying "I am a" means, and what it really implies about the rate of genuine cognitive distortions or depressive thought patterns in the population. The reasoning here is basically "X correlates with Y, X is up, therefore Y is up". That's not a strong argument. These data are a starting point, not a conclusion.

The authors also seem to be leaning so far into a desired narrative that they can't accurately read their own graphs. The rapid rise in CDS clearly begins around 2000 - not the late 1970s, which are just the low point of the graph.
Reddit has plenty of conservatives.

And crackdowns did closed lefty abusive subs too.
Sounds like the loowatt system: https://www.loowatt.com/toilets.html
I too have been thinking about <<general, Wasm-based, "purely functional">> content addressed computation.

I think it can support both legacy applications as well as purely functional uses. I really want to support both, the case for linking against any git commit and doing live differential testing is really enticing. I toyed with a serverless deployment system years ago where code was callable by githash and was run directly from git. One could execute any version at any time. This system would be able to automatically rerun executions against new code to track regressions across many dimensions. On failure, the system could fall back to older code paths. TBD how to manage modularity and coherence across sets of functions, restart might need to happen at a much higher level.

For processing an input stream, I think the lambdas would need to be tail recursive so that the internal state could be externally checkpointed, stream_setup/process_chunk/stream_close. process_chunk would need to emit either a total copy of its internal state, or a token linking to persistent storage.

Curious what your current set of basis functions are and how failures are accounted for?
This is going to add a fair amount of impossible to decompose microplastics to the ocean.
> ISPs should advertise more honestly, but if they started talking about contention ratios in their advertising the average consumer would rapidly lose interest.

In short, they have to lie to get business? Why is that even legal?
Why was this downvoted? Does anyone disagree with the basic idea here? People's actions are more meaningful than what they say to a pollster. This should be obvious.
Passive freshness signal since a lot of people think of Ruby as old and boring :)
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Why are used cars so expensive right now?
I've looked at the data; it was perfectly normal. This kind of thing happens all the time. It just stands out more when the topic is eye-catching or indignation-inducing.
I'd guess most ccTLDs are primarily used for the country, only a few get commonly "misused".
Moon Tricks Tesla's Full Self-Driving Feature into Thinking It's a Yellow Light
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Great work. Interesting that he didn't simulate the impact that formed the moon, though. I'm interested in how that impacted (ha) plate tectonics. I'm not aware of a scientific theory that posits a causality between the impact and plate tectonics, but we are the only rocky planet that has both plate tectonics and a natural satellite created by impact, so I have to wonder if they're related.
I don't get why this comment has been downvoted. Isn't pessimist poetry allowed on HN?
...but the post claimed it's either money or punishment, and I pointed out a false dichotomy in that. I'm with you, but GP isn't
> the infrastructure for programmable money might have some value

And it has, Central Banks are creating their own digital currencies for digital wallets. They aware based on real needs for speed, volume, security, trazability, etc.

> the infrastructure for programmable money might have some value

I think that people understand cryptocurrencies quite well, and from that knowledge comes the skepticism.

> wish for the government to ban other people’s jobs and hobby’s and communities because they don’t like it

I want it banned because people with unsofisticated knowledge of economics and technology are being scammed out of their money by snake oil salesmen. But, that is not needed. As soon as normal accounting guaratees are required it probably will call by its own weight.

I know people working hard jobs putting hard earned money into this scam trying too get money to better their lives. It breaks my heart to thing that they are being lied in such a way, this study suggests is all manipulation, and that is my experience with everything related to cryptocurrencies. The sooner it gets regulated the better.
I mean, agreed, and he has been injuring himself. He’s dieting and trying to slim down though. Guy used to work out and be really buff back when he was in the military but it seems like a good number of people once they get out no longer have the discipline to keep fit once you don’t have all the structure of military service.
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>by far the toughest messaging protocol to crack.

Citation needed.
The thing is, georgian houses only look good if they are actually made with all the right materials and skills - and that stuff is expensive. If you look at all the neoclassical / retro stuff the nazis built, for example, it generally looks really dystopian, no matter how well you look after it,

My personal feeling, aesthetics-wise, is that materials look good and work well when you respect their innate properties. Trying to force an aesthetic from one material on another is, at best, a recipe for an cheap and ugly chimera - which is kind of how I view Poundbury. More often, it just results in buildings that don't work (every UK house ever). Georgian buildings come from a specific set of materials and skills, many of which don't really exist any more. You can replace the stucco with concrete or polystyrene or whatever, but it's never going to look the same, because part of the 'aura' of the old stuff is it was made by really skilled people who had generations of experience showing in every move they made.
How does that make sense based on the definition above? FIRE doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not they paid their fair share.
As far as I know, eSIMs are usually implemented in physical hardware, close to (or maybe even on) the baseband, but independent from the baseband firmware.

This is because they are considered a trusted execution environment; if they weren't, it would be possible to "clone" eSIM instances.
You've missed the point entirely. It's not only a matter of protecting a species, it's a matter of learning empathy.
R1234YF is ridiculously expensive compared to R134A, like 10 times the price. (For reference - I can buy a 10 pound cylinder of R1234-YF on eBay for $500. A 30 lb cylinder of R134A is $150 - $200.)

It is also takes more expensive equipment and a significantly longer amount of time to charge a R1234-YF system. All around, it is a terrible refrigerant for an end-user.
Basically, when you remove aggressive assholes, other sentient beings become happier?

This can be reproduced in human prisons or boarding schools. If you are not locked with bully you are happier.
I'm not convinced. The bug is rare and requires a specific set of circumstances that not many people are going to perform. That is not an argument to collect metrics, or in other words, change the entire paradigm of Signal (no collection of Metadata). It does propose an argument for more audits, more eyes, and more care. But we do not expect Signal to be perfect, as no software is. Systematic failure, on the other hand, creates worry about Signal. But not individual.
They also had a Plaid prototype with a normal wheel - https://imgur.com/a/AToY8rb
Only one off the top of my head is ebay. The Canada site is: ebay.ca
Really the only place I use regularly that has it...
Food Engineering (i.e. design and production of factory food, which is most of what's in the grocery store) relies on more flexibility and reliability, plus lower cost, than you can get from ordinary, perishable foods. PTFE is made from petrocarbons, and is easily sourced.

Also the fad for "healthy" foods (when healthy isn't really what's wanted) results in abominations like frozen "organic" (and/or "natural") burritos and the like which require even more stabilizers than the "normal" kind. This is why the CEO of Whole Foods famously declared that 90% of what was on the shelves in his stores was garbage.

TTTT ignoring its production and disposal,* PTFE is super inert (tightly linked to itself, which is why it makes a good nonstick coating). I once ate some plumber's teflon tape to prove to a colleague that it was inert: it came out the other end intact and white.

* but let's not ignore that...I was merely addressing the use in food production in my comment.
> Shit needs a license, money, connections, bribes

FTFY

You can't just get a license if you don't know right people and you don't have suitcases of money ready to pass under the table.
I think they delete your domain without warning or notification if it stops serving (e.g. server goes down for a while without you noticing). That or their renewal reminders were not working correctly at some point. "Lost" one of my domains that way (was able to re-register it once I noticed).

They're an option for fun projects that you don't expect to last a year and don't care about, definitely not for anything serious.
Even if the universe /is/ simulated, it wouldn't have an affect on anything mundane. We all still need to eat. Suffering is as real as anything else, and the alleviation of pain is still a good thing.

It also means that there is the potential to exploit the simulation, and take advantages of the corner cases - which may also get us shut down, but we would likely never know it happened, so it's almost without penalty.
I wonder why no "mbedTLS" or LibTomCrypt? The formeris very popular in IoT devices, which is where a lot of hacking is happening. I'm guessing no stats were available for those two.

It is interesting to see the trend split between crypto and non-crypto vulnerability. There is only one trendline, LOC, but I would like to see CVE trends over time as well because that would indicate if we are making progress. This is useful framework for a longer-term study.
> On Youtube, you can opt out of ads for your own videos.

You can opt out of monetization, but I don't think you can opt out of ads anymore.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/youtube-will-put-ads-on-non-...
> I personally love it when races are run without radios

I agree wholeheartedly.

It levels the playing field in a way that means money can't interfere as much. Some people make a break off the front? You have to remember how many people went and how good they are. You want to make sure they don't get too far away? Chase them.

Cycling fans (of which I am one) make a lot of noise about how they enjoy the strategy involved, but there are different kinds of strategy. There's nothing I dislike more than a few people making a breakaway and the peloton sauntering along, knowing that they'll be able to catch the break within X kilometres of the finish if they make Y effort at Z kilometres out because they know exactly where the breakaway is. People wax lyrical about heroic individual deeds and head-to-head competition of the past. You want more of that? Ban radios.

The whole safety argument is bunk from what I've read of it - the amount of cameras and personnel on the course is more than enough to catch any issues.
I believe many of his books (at least, those which I picked up, I know he wrote many more) were collections of his Scientific American "Mathematical Games" columns.

And as a bit of trivia - when Douglas Hofstadter (of Gödel Escher Bach) took over the slot in the early 1980s, he renamed it to the anagrammatic "Metamagical Themas".
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I’m always curious to learn about things that make people cautious to run the BEAM in production. What makes it scary for you?