skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS is hundreds of millions of lines of C and C++, with immeasurable ways to feed in untrusted inputs. In that setting, it's guaranteed that there will be a constant supply of remotely exploitable memory corruption bugs.

The 0-days will continue to drop on a regular basis until OS vendors embrace widespread memory safety as something that's vitally important to more than just a handful of dissidents and journalists.

edit: parent comment previously said "Makes me wonder how secure iOS really is", which is what I was responding to.
Indeed, people have posted bounties for anyone willing to come forth with evidence that they have redeemed Tether for USD.

No-one has claimed them (and, IIRC, some are in the order of $5K USD, so not too trivial).
Is "nobody is forcing you to have it on your phone nor are they forcing you to be part of it" really the standard that we want when judging whether to share our revulsion about a company or product? You're not wrong about that part, I'm just not sure what your point is.

It's no secret that social media in general stokes many of our worst impulses. Citizen strikes me as somewhat unique because it starts from such a negative place and then encourages us to feel worse. Facebook benefited from engagement resulting in political chaos but that's only one of the ways individuals can interact. Citizen can't even claim that weak defense. It's like the social media version of for-profit prisons: it claims to want safety but it benefits the most when we think we are unsafe.
> Therefore spacetime is either non-local

You might be interested in Travis Norsen's book "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory" (2017) where he argues that quantum mechanics (in the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation) is not even non-local because the word doesn't even make sense in quantum mechanics.
>Society ceases to function if you cannot convey any advantage to your children.

This is stated as fact, but what exactly is the assumption based upon? If it were true, wouldn’t you expect people without children to stop being contributors to society?

>I think crime rates go down when married and with children. You have a lot more to lose

Even if this correlation is true, it doesn’t mean the correct choice is to turn into that. Immigrants also commit less crime because they have much more to lose, it doesn’t imply citizenship should be on the chopping block
They're going for the niche of people who want to do serious web browsing on mobile, don't have 100$ to buy a half-decent mobile device, but are still willing to pay for a service?
I'm just responding to the debate about whether cryptocurrency is useful beyond... itself.

For the record I don't believe it should be banned broadly speaking. Banning legal exchanges for proof of work cryptocurrencies is something I might be convinced is a good idea since PoW is a disaster, but I would not support banning non-PoW consensus cryptocurrencies.

Get rid of PoW and a lot of the bad shit about cryptocurrency is gone. Yes you can still buy droogs with it, but most droogs are bought with cash anyway. Cryptocurrency is a small fraction of the droog market.
I 100% dont think it should be used as evidence but this seems like a decent rate for responding. There's 12,000 total officers in Chicago. Even if only 3,000 are on duty at any time that's not a huge inconvenience if there are still even dozens of cases a year you get to the scene 5 minutes before you would otherwise.

If you track the number of calls to 911 that are "dead-ends" because there are no arrests I'm sure it would be high too.

It also doesnt say the error rate for when the police aren't called. If criminals know that if they shoot a gun there is a 50% chance a police car will drive through 5 minutes later - wouldn't that deter you?
(2015)

rip of other article (https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/) and ancient

Plenty of discussion over the years:

Original 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286

2017 where the author repeats that this is old https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442022

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475518
borg does either use a directory as repo (no matter whether local or mounted via network fs) or works client/server via pipes that are usually over ssh (in that case, it needs a remote borg process to talk to). instead of ssh, one could also use anything rsh-like, but of course ssh is the best option here.

no sftp inside borg (nor anything else).
What they should be required to do is keep records on a dog's record of false positives.

If a dog fails to perform better than 95% I see no reason to use that as probable cause.

Better yet, let's just get rid of pretext stops. Almost all traffic stops could be dealt with by the officer mailing a ticket. Safer for cops, safer for the public, but a lot harder to go fishing for felonies
I say this as a Tesla owner.

Chargers are still too slow to appease a LOT of people. A 15-30 minute charge every 2-3 hours is unacceptable to people who expect a 5 minute gas-up every 3-4 hours. And while the supercharger network is expanding, the fact is, for a road trip, you'll still likely want to plan your charging stops ahead of time, and many people don't want to do this. With a gas car, you can easily just wing it with zero planning since no matter where you are, there's a gas station within 15 miles.

The "charge rates up to 1,000 miles per hour" is only accurate when your battery is under what, 30%? IIRC, charging speed falls off almost linearly with state of charge.
They lost all access to banking meaning that there was no physical way for them to create redeem Tethers. That makes it de facto un-backed. This is addressed in 14/ through 18/. They lost access to banking, and continued to issue Tethers.

> 18/ Because Tether did not have a significant bank relationship in its name from at
least March 2017 until September 15, 2017, it could not directly process any fiat deposits for
purchases of Tethers by customers on either the Tether website or via the Bitfinex trading
platform.

And yet in that period they issued some 400M tethers.
Investing in EV will improve the grid, obviously (and charging during off peak hours will stabilize it, too).

Betting on hydrogen (99% made from natural gas) does nothing to improve electricity generation and distribution in India.
Like a gas grill I would suspect. The issue with swapping out batteries is they are friggin' heavy when they are that big.
Ohhh there was this YouTube video (from Motortend?) showing a model X in tow that had a drastic reduction in range when towing a trailer.

Now compare that to the LandCruiser that we haul race cars with…
the LC always gets 14 mpg, we have filled it with 6 adults going to Tahoe, same MPG. Haul a 2700lbs sports car. Doesn’t change at all.

Honestly an EV would be nice for hauling stuff to the track, hopefully with the race car, and equipment it can make it to Willows on a single charge, at least the track has RV hookup points, can charge while you race.
This is an interesting read, thanks!

I'm a bit surprised by https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/#julia_cant_easi... - I've been considering embedding Julia (as opposed to LuaJIT) in a project I'm working on that requires fast, mostly numerical computation.

Based on https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/embedding/, this seemed fairly simple, and as though I could avoid repeatedly paying the compile time latency cost by just calling my embedded functions at least once before the performance-critical loop (to ensure that they're compiled). Is that not the case? There's definitely still the high memory overhead to consider, but (admittedly without having tried it yet), embedding Julia doesn't seem too terrible to do. Worse than e.g. compiling a shared object library or something, but not at all unreasonably hard.
It would be more persuasive if you could point to something that has utility and viability in the here and now. A killer app or something that benefits society and offsets the much talked about negative externalities. From the outside it’s hard to see the good and so the crypto community would benefit greatly by focusing on pr at least as much as the technology itself. When I talk to working class people, the view of Bitcoin is as a tool for the wealthy young tech overlords to make even more outrageous fortunes. Punctuate that with news about ransomware and child trafficking and you can imagine. They hate it a lot. Crypto shouldn’t be an enemy of the poor, but it is according to every poor and working class person I ask. That’s a problem worth solving IMO.
If you actually had a strong culture that mattered to your workers, they would know what they were missing, and they would want it back. If they don't want it back, your culture isn't worth what you think it is.
Someone breaking into my house 10 times by jiggling the same doorknob a contractor told me they “fixed” would be very concerning.
I don't know how your can say that an LVT avoids all economic and ethical issues with land ownership, that seems like a personal moral opinion. Especially since there's very few instances of an LVT on the wild. I'm sympathetic to Georgism, but you're making a very powerful and unsubstantiated claim.
The hardware has been there for a decade already. You might have AR tools already in your pocket (eg Google Translate)
I would argue it wasn't just that Elon was smart to see that potential, he created it. He showed that it was possible to have a fully electric call that is usable and attractive looking.

Before Tesla, existing car manufacturers made cars with low range that were fugly looking, probably trying to show regulating bodies that no one would be interested in electric cars.
This is simply not true, as German tech companies have built more than just a few success examples.

Why do you think you need people who don't care about having a life outside the workplace to build something competitive?
That Go would benefit from generics doesn't change the fact that there are also lots of use for heterogenous containers. As it is, Go already has "slices" for type safe containers. The fair complaint about Go is it's hard to do other type safe container than the built in "slice" and "map" containers. But the problem is on track to be fixed next year, so it's silly to complain about it now.
Not all li-ion batteries are the same. They have to be a certain chemistry and form factor.

With cylindrical (18650) being the most common that Panasonic manufactures. Because they can be produced quickly, hence the lower cost per kWh. They are also a Tier 1 lithium-ion battery producer. Meaning they produce the highest-quality lithium-ion batteries, for automotive use.

Samsung and LG Chem are also Tier 1. But Panasonic is certainly more mature and have more experience (but more conservative like Toyota). Which I already mentioned earlier.
but be aware that Wacom drivers sent logs of every program you open to Google and Wacom with an opt-out policy that resets on every update: https://grahamcluley.com/wacom-drawing-tablet-spying/
Git-blame-someone-else
> This does not make any sense. It's Unix-like because it feels old? It seems like the author thoroughly misses the point of unix philosophy.

Yea, I couldn't figure out what makes it Unix-like, either. I mean, which UNIX in particular? Solaris? AIX? HP-UX? Do you use UNIX commands to navigate it? Is there a shell or something? Kind of odd way to describe it.
The issue of waveform collapse is fundamentally different than "it collapses". The fact it collapses is the easy part. The hard part is why it collapses simultaneously for two particles which can't communicate at the same(ish) moment due to light speed limitations.
Defender is deleting the app as a "potentially" unwanted application, a better analogy would be if firefighters went to every home and confiscated every "potential" source of ignition.
I'm in LIC/Astoria, I had a similar experience. My wife rolled her eyes at me for ages when I told her about "local" (literally never anywhere close to us) incidents and felt very smug when I finally punted the app forever.
How does it work in a lab? A lot of what I did at the bench was actually at the bench and I needed to be physically present to pipette stuff or move cultures around.

We tended to work weird, utterly flexible hours, though, since the pace was dictated by the experiments. Thirty six hours of time points every two hours, sleeping on the couch in the break room, and just not showing up the next day. Leaving a dinner party at 10PM to stop by the lab and deal with a culture before going to bed. Disappearing to take a walk for two hours in the middle of the day because because there was a 6AM time point and a 6PM time point.
If you can remove opening preparation (and all preparation) I think it probably is. Calculating moves is a good measure of working memory and is an important aspect of intelligence. There are certainly other things that are important, like creativity, but anyways, intelligence is probably not a specific enough word for this to be meaningful. But as an example, I think I'm intelligent enough in a lot of ways but my ability to calculate far ahead is held back by my mediocre working memory.
Sorry if I misunderstood but it sounds like you're saying engines aren't programmed to make random mistakes in order to lower playing strength, but this is how Stockfish works. Lowering the calculation depth and calculation time is used to reduce difficulty, but in addition to those it is programmed to make mistakes:

> Internally, MultiPV is enabled, and with a certain probability depending on the Skill Level a weaker move will be played.

Within the constraints of the depth and calculation times it determines the best move, but depending on MultiPV it will deliberately not play that move and play an inferior one instead.
It's not the version of the BLAKE3 hash algorithm (which has been finished a long time ago and won't change anymore), it's the version of the reference implementation. The changes from 0.3.7 were just fixing a build issue on MSVC (this was release 0.3.8), and breaking changes to the API of the reference implementation, mostly removing parts of the API of the reference implementation which weren't stable enough for a 1.0 release.
> I'm largely of the same era as the author

Well, were you also from Microsoft? He seems to be talking about the way Microsoft did things "back in the day" - and it's hard to argue that they weren't very successful at it back then.
> What implications does this have for the concept of redemption?

People don't change without an impetus to change. Since the majority of the complaints that Sanger has had with wikipedia can be equated to the false balance logical fallacy and Sanger opens the video with the false balance logical fallacy then Sanger has continued to establish that he is in fact an idiot. Pretty easy to dismiss. You can declare me to be an idiot. You clearly don't care what anyone has to say, you seem to have an agenda, I don't know what it is or why you're so hot under the collar about this but I could call you an idiot as well and dismiss what you have to say. As a matter of fact...
I'm not joking at all. We used to have tax rates just like that.

Let's say that you've got a nice little setup for yourself. $1.5M/yr in personal income, with another US$8M or so flowing into things you indirectly (in time or space) will benefit from.

Now let's bump up the top marginal rate to 95% on amounts over $1M. You're personal income is reduced by an amount on the order of $400-500k per year. You're not likely to just accept that, and live on less. Instead, you're going to rearrange things so that you're back to the same "take home" personal income, while the "diversions that benefit you" drop a corresponding amount.
Honestly, I would expect the average to be higher, but maybe the truly large inheritances are shielded as trusts or hidden off-shore.

But now I'm curious what the median inheritance is for the 1%? Lower than that (mathematically) but is it $0? I might take that bet. But the SCF doesn't seem to go finer than the 1% bucket. Anyone know?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/weal...
Why Batman and Rhapsody in Blue should be public domain, but aren’t (2015)
"Of course, it’s important to provide an incentive for creative people to invent things like the wheel – and an exclusive right to exploit serves as that incentive: the inventor reaps his or her reward during a period of time, and thereafter anyone is free to use it and to improve upon it. But tying up the ability of others to use it inevitably hampers further development – all for the sake of benefiting the owner of the exclusive rights.

The same is true for works of authorship protected by copyright. We recognize exclusive rights for authors to give them an opportunity to reap economic rewards from their creative contributions to our culture."
Only 952.5 MB?
I usually can't keep my focus in an article that is so long, but the narrative style helped keep me hooked through the entire thing.
That is totally wrong. Young slackers without economic standing, waring parents that have no clue who has actual custody and guidance from only small minded individuals hiding from reality as “teachers” can, and frequently do, achieve great things. Those further Deep Thoughts about ‘unpacking feelings’ make me want to projectile vomit.
It is not a "Ponzi scheme" at all, rubbish. The pension system is not an investment theme. Currently working people provide for current pensioners. No "investing" involved. That, in the light of a shift in age distribution, this works better when the economy and productivity grow is orthogonal, the pension system payments are not for economic growth but directly for current pensioners.

Unless you find aliens or a time machine to shift goods and also services through time, always and everywhere the currently working take care of the current pensioners. There is nothing "Ponzi" about it, that is the universe.

People who pay now do not pay for their future pension, they pay for the current pensioners. What is transmitted to the future - when they become pensioners - is not what they pay now, it is merely information. That information is then taken into account when the then living and working working people pay the pensions of the then pensioners. The information about how much somebody contributed in the past is taken into consideration to see how much a share of the overall pie everyone gets, but the pie itself always is created in the present by whoever works now.

Which also makes the headlines a little silly that claim that because in the future there will be more of an imbalance between nr. of people working and those getting a pension something needs to be changed now. It makes no sense: The current payments into the system immediately go to the current pensioners. If there are less paying and/or more receiving the funds that can and is always balanced at whatever the current time is. There is no need to do anything now when the current payments are enough to pay the current pensioners. If next year there is an imbalance they adjust what the payments (in and out) are at that time. It makes no sense to change payments now when the problem is not right now.

Any finance-based scheme cannot undo the universe (except, aliens helping out or time machine). "Private" funds change nothing of the underlaying truth that current pensioners live from what current workers produce in both goods an services. It only changes who is responsible: More winners and losers (and then "it's your own fault, why did you not buy stocks - the right stocks too of course") with the finance based system, with one huge winner the financial industry.
The value of fiat currencies is "based solely convincing others they have value" - it is trust in the issuer.

You are arguing that trusting issuers has been societal valuable, which sure - historically it has been for the fiat currencies that still exist (if you ignore survivorship bias).

Not sure what handwaving "society is valuable and that value is what backs fiat currencies" even means in concrete terms. The government has the power to print as much fiat currency as they want (and they frequently do with intentional inflation targets). There is nothing that stops governments from printing more money except fear that it will damage trust in their currency, leading to devaluation.
That Go would benefit from generics doesn't change the fact that there are also lots of use for heterogenous containers. As it is, Go already has "slices" for type safe containers. The fair complaint about Go is it's hard to do other type safe container than the built in "slice" and "map" containers. But the problem is on track to be fixed next year, so it's silly to complain about it now.

It's really hard to take people who complain about Go seriously when they're pretty obviously just zealots who don't know much about the language besides "types good" and "Go bad". My stance: types good in moderation; Go a useful tradeoff of engineering attributes.
What has been built on Blockchain? Specifically I'm looking for examples of things that solve a problem that couldn't be solved without Blockchain, or at least were unsolved before.
If everybody started renaming keygens to CredentialManager.exe, would the learning algorithms the AV companies are using start to flag and delete those .exes too?

No way, right? What could go wrong?
>no matter how painful.

Why put unnecessary strain on your society to get from a 90% reduction to a 100% reduction if there are other initiatives that can be more easily accomplished and make that 10% look like small peanuts in comparison?

The answer is no one is gonna actually do this and this specific 100% number is just Govt and Businesses cynically trying to bargain.
Bezos offers billions in incentives for NASA’s lunar lander contract
"inflation is economically useful" is not proven (and at high levels is destructive and demotivating - look at socialist countries that blow up from hyperinflation and have no productivity) - its just the status quo. The idea that people dont spend in a stagnant/deflationary monetary environment is nonsense. People still want above average returns (investment) and will still spend on necessities and non necessities.

Im not sure of the rant you're going on. There is no argument that the govt is adopting bitcoin over the dollar. Its a private value store that can be transacted with as they wish.

-- Posting my response to below here since I hit a max:

Thats a perception and its not econ 101. If you take the feds balance sheet and divide it by the SPY, its flat over the past 10 years. Inflation does not drive growth. Production in the US is not up. Only the numbers are. Zimbabwe stock market is a top performer. Their production is trash.

You could make the argument were in the drowning phase as deficits widen relentlessly and asset prices are going parabolic.

I have heard basically nobody suggest the US govt is going to adopt bitcoin as the standard currency. Value store is the dominant narrative.
Pocket isn't for bookmarks. It's a reading list. Safari and Chrome have this feature too.
They are no rare-earth minerals in Li-Ion batteries!

There may be some in electric motors, but 1) hydrogen vehicles need those motors too and 2) it is not required (some EV have zero rare-earth mineral already).
They were relevant in 1960. Those skills aren't relevant today.

I don't think the skills it takes to be a captain of a ship are the same as they are in 2020 as they were in 1720. That doesn't mean you aren't a ship captain if you operate a cruise ship today.