skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few in there that are probably collisions rather than the "real" words (it's only a 32-bit hash so there are a lot of collisions). "jui ch" and "w00se" are two that I'm pretty sure are not correct but I don't have a more plausible alternative for them right now. And "po" and "n1" turn out to collide, which makes "pogger" rather less innocuous than I thought at first.

I am actually hoping that they will change the hash function as that would give me an easy way to detect which ones are real and which are collisions ;)
Facebook also "delayed" their surveillance plan for WhatsApp.... and eventually implemented it. Apple is now copying Facebook. Apple must abandon this feckless, evil plan, or face losing their user-base. This contradicts Apple's core values.
Yeah, this is the reason I'm hoping the supreme court strikes it (and the general method) down hard when the full court case gets there (they couldn't at the time because of the way injunction works).

I think the most egregious thing about the law is that people who sue don't have to pay the defender's fees when they lose. It make it possible to DDOS defendents.

Deputizing the citizenry is also bad, and I'd like to see that struck down as well... but it's not the first time we've seen it either. Technically, this is somewhat similar to how the ADA works too (it does work a little differently though in that not everybody can be deputized). And I'm sure most have heard of good things happening because of the ADA, as well as bad things when people abuse the system. We are going to have to consider pretty carefully what we want instead here.

I'm still worried about companies making political decisions that affect so many people... but yeah, the government scares me even more.

Hope you have an awesome day.
The End of Hopium
To be clear, I’m massively against the new law. I was just explaining that my understanding is that for its proponents, a workaround such as hosting with the state government wouldn’t work because the legislators are hoist with their own petard.
> dumb culture war politicization of it

Maybe I'm a fan of science, of which there is NO evidence that Ivermectin works against COVID. It seems like maybe you're the one that bought into something.

These doctors are doing nothing more than profiting off the fear of their patients, while offering no value other than what might be argued is a placebo. That doesn't stop these people from infecting others around them.
GoDaddy refused service, so they immediately went to a competitor. How else do you want it to work?

I agree we are ruled by corporations, but this isn't an example of that problem.
I’m a proponent of that.
Just rewriting old java or python monsters in an efficient language like Rust would easily give us an order of magnitude better efficiency.

A special class of theorem provers could be developed, proving that a program runs below a certain level of spacetime complexity.

This would entail a great increase in energy efficiency.

I also endorse holy information warfare against inefficient proof of work cryptocurrencies and a transition to efficient proof of stake.
I cringe whenever people describe their app as “beautiful.” For the same reason.
I think it’s already possible to get some of the way there on the web today (having fine-grained control and avoiding Walde-r’s). Check out Hypher (https://github.com/bramstein/hypher). If you’re using Gatsby and Markdown, I wrote a small plugin to be able to use it there:

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-remark-hypher/

and

https://github.com/siawyoung/remark-hypher

(An example of how it looks like: https://siawyoung.com)
It's only flicking the v's if the fingertips are pointing upwards, fingers are apart, and the back of the hand is pointing at the person you're gesturing to. We also call it the "reverse peace sign" as it's exactly like that but with your hand pointing the opposite way. Pointing your hand parallel to the ground like you would use scissors is nice and clear as scissors.
What about Von Neumann? How do his contributions to Quantum Mechanics weigh up in terms of the development of the field.
So the website still exists and now they found a different domain provider within 24 hours after being de-platformed by GoDaddy?

What have these 'script-kiddies' and 'hacktivists' achieved other than making these websites more resilient and censorship resistant?

What's next? complain to Google Inc, that they are using ReCAPTCHA because they don't like the website?

Perhaps this means anyone can do these sort of methods to anyone else who they don't like until they become censorship resistant. Unfortunately, the website owners have not changed their minds and the site is still up and the law (which I also disagree with) is still in effect. If they were expecting a backlash, it didn't happen.

This is a complete and total failure.

Downvoters: So you are telling me that the website is still down then? So they didn't find a domain provider to move to? Are you telling me that they are still on GoDaddy?

Is there any evidence that substantiates this? Are you really sure?
I worked a call center over xmas season one year. During training they had us call each other and place fake orders for practice. I got call from the "hot chick" in the group, took down her info and asked if could call the number later. She responded in the positive. I never followed up 'cause I already had a GF. But hey, pranking people is fun too!
I think they are saying that women are figments of your imagination.
The issue about verification still remains. We have no way of knowing if these haven't been tampered with as well. If a malicious actor is tampering with ISOs on a large scale, they will make sure their tampered copies have the most seeds and their fake checksum lists will be at the top of search results.
Or is it the adolescence of China, once a baby in consumerism, now a hungry teenager engulfing all the calories it can?
Old article May 5th of this year, which in that industry is a long time.
Nevertheless the situation since did actually get worse as predicted. Not only is it chip shortage we should call it component shortage. A standard 10k 0406 package resistor is sold out around the world. Many high quality, high density capacitor you can't get. The same goes for the standard semiconductor parts like diodes, MOSFET or TVS.
Semiconductor sales rep give you now +50 weeks lead time for the many ICs meaning no real forecast at this point.
They generally tell you 2022 will be tough maybe Q4 will ease up.

Many of the major semi companies are running at fairly high capacity, but supporting elements like IC package build capacity, sometimes materials can't keep up as well.

We looked at some boards to redesign, but when you are short hundreds of parts it gets nearly insurmountable to manage a hardware redesign. Interesting and challenging allocation period, definitely worse than 2003-2005.
Incidentally, by the same author, the state of hyphenation on the web: http://clagnut.com/blog/2395

It's from 2019, but nothing much has changed since. My biggest gripe is that browsers should prevent hyphenation when a word starts with an uppercase letter, which doesn’t seem too hard?

The only bulletproof (but more complicated) solution is to process text beforehand and insert soft hyphens (&shy;) where appropriate.
It's not like Scotland was exactly the home of efficiency and productivity to begin with... But good for them! I look forward to visiting and taking a dram on the occasional day when they're open.
Yeah I did see that, though it looks like the hybrid option is just a soft hybrid, no plug/PHEV and no EV option, right?

I feel like if I'm going to pay the money for a new vehicle, I'll replace my Volt with an EV truck. But only once there is an option below $45k CAD. Which could be a long time.
I'm on board with the argument that it hasn't yet been proven to be effective, and should be judged as such.

The argument about cat urine no longer seems in good faith, though. There are multiple studies evaluating ivermectin as a COVID treatment, but there are no such studies about cat urine.

I understand what you're trying to say; however, there's at least enough interest in ivermectin to warrant real trials.

I'm not optimistic that it'll be some miracle cure, but let's not pretend it's cat urine.
Do the experts have any long term studies on efficacy (5+ years out)? It seems like they figured out the 6 month (or is it 5? or 8?) window only recently. It also seems learning the vaccine is non sterilizing is new as well.

I don't fault them for any of this. Science takes time and iteration. Nobody can account for unknown unknowns - the only solution is time.
Beto's greatest achievement.
I've seen much smaller organizations fail to adopt "DevOps"; pretty much textbook against the recent "Puppet yearly state of Devops report": cultural issues, and legacy software. It boils down to the organization SAYING they want to make this transition, and not doing what's necessary to change. "Sufficiently empowered" is a nice blanket term, but it's not always that easy. At my previous job, the "cultural" issue was specifically 3 individuals, who were highly placed in the organization, and they were #1, #3 and #5 employees from when the company was originally a startup. Nobody, not even the CEO, was "sufficiently empowered" to tell these fully-vested founders how to do their job or run their teams. When it came down to it. And they prevented a company of 500 others from succeeding at changing how they did the work. Now; we did hire a very good devops-oriented cloud architect, who was making a lot of progress, despite the resistance, and he may actually succeed (keyword: "strangler pattern"), but they're already 5 years into this effort.

So; indeed, the size of the USAF, AND all the contractor developers they depend on, and the command-structure of this combined "organization"; I wouldn't want to contemplate the level of "sufficiently empowered" that would be required to change that in 6 months. You'd have to summarily fire a LOT of people, and magically find skilled replacements, and then magically overcome the knowledge gap, while maintaining operational readiness for warfighters.
Parent's claim doesn't really require that. I believe they are just theorizing that some people carry unknown parasitic infections and taking anti-parasitics clears that which happens to put them in a batter place to clear covid as well.
Sure, but look at the context. The hypothesis was that Apple was doing this to create negotiating leverage with some three letter agency.

How does Apple get leverage if Apple gets all the negative publicity, and can't even say "TLA made us do it"?
> Finally, I point out that liberals are unlikely to win the abortion issue in any other way.

This isn't an issue in most countries
That's odd. A quick look at sci-hub shows a bunch of ivermectin papers that don't look half bad.

I figure that if a physician wants to go off-label on a prescription they should go ahead. Plenty of warnings of course.

Buying it at the feed store along with fish antibiotics is sketchy, but remember that it's your body after all. People forget that. God knows how many people are harmed by Tylenol overdoses.
Data ingestion service with FastAPI, SQLModel and Dramatiq
I meant in a complexity/memory way. Exclusive locks themselves aren't actually cross platform - it would vary on your fs. That's why you don't see a nice cross-platform file locking interface. I'm not sure if you can guarantee an exclusive lock in SQLite on something like a nfs?
There’s an idea with masks where preventing any infection or virus that you could contract while stricken with COVID will shorten the period of time you have COVID and thus shorten the window in which you are contagious.

That was always true and will always be true. Even if COVID flows right through masks, there will still always be a plausible reason to wear them.
Interesting point, thank you.

I'm not sure where I got the impression it was official.
im not following the analogy. What is a black mortgage?
Yep, I agree with this. And I should point out that this particular flavor of hacking is really squarely in my area of specialization (Z3 and symbolic execution get used extensively in software security, and language models / GPU coding stuff are something I've done research in as well). There are tons of areas of CS that I'm pretty shaky on still, the field is just too big for one person to know it all in any detail.
Two related links that were posted recently:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzk8q/why-one-billion-years...

https://www.space.com/grand-canyon-rock-mystery-rodinia
I would guess that the GP means designing such that your board accepts multiple footprints for compatible parts, so that if your first choice of op amp (or voltage regulator, etc) goes out of stock you can populate another one.

That might be a similar part by another company, or it might be an identical part in a different package (often ICs are available in two or three package shapes, and you might not be able to predict which ones will be in stock).
"This surely justifies my theft!"
Black person here.

So, the lack of outrage here (I mean in hacker news) is unsurprising, and would of course be greater if there were more black people "in tech" and by extension here.

And even as I write this, I'm not trying to judge -- just more open the door to understanding, like, y'all understand this fact, right? I find myself searching for metaphorical equivalents. I'm thinking something like "what if it labeled Jewish people as rats" or something similar.

Even if that doesn't work -- I suppose the broader point I'd try to make here is: A lot of y'all (and me, often) assume the following very wrong idea, subconsciously -- "Because I'm working with a computer I can assume that what we are doing is infused with objectivity, like math"

Important to remember nooooooooope. This is dead wrong. We're ALWAYS bringing our subconscious whatevers to this and there is very little, if ANYTHING at all, that can be correctly considered "coldly and obviously correct and object like math is." (perhaps even what we imagine math to be)
I hope you’re teaching them the truth behind the origin of the technology and systems of our world. Otherwise you’re spreading ignorance.

Complaining about “wokeness” is to be willfully stupid. Your kids will find out the truth, even if you try to hide it from them.
You make a good point, and I'd agree that it's implicit that they mean "non-human primates". Otherwise they could solve this by labelling lots of humans as "primates" in the dataset.

On the other hand, I think there's a semantic difference between your two cases. I'd argue that treating a woman as an "object" is a different sense of the word to how women (and men and teapots) are literally "objects".
Second Life and all the similar stuff.

Iirc IBM even held an event there and had like an official place.

Cool concept tho.
To be perfectly clear, I am not in any way intending to advocate for the position that we should feel catharsis from injuring or killing people.

But it's there. We are all descended from violent predators that got by in the world by killing other animals. A lot of people still do that for sport. Even just with human sport, perhaps you've never played a contact or combat sport where you directly hit other people. Whether or not it's right that it should be this way, I can assure you that it feels really good.

I used to be a tank commander, and I guess I was lucky as hell to never have to kill someone myself, but I'll never quite forget my first commander at the armor school who would get us pumped up talking about when he graduated, he'd gone straight to Ramadi to replace a platoon leader who'd just been killed in action and how it made his dick hard to think about blowing up hospitals. The man was an absolute psychopath, but there is no denying a lot of people like that exist. The commander of my lead 2 tank had once shredded a man with a .50 cal from less than a hundred feet away and found it the most addictive thing he'd ever done. As the war started to wind down and normal units no longer got real combat assignments, he was determined to move into the Special Forces to stay in the game. That guy was never going to be normal again.

Whether it is sports, actual combat, sexual dominance and sado-masochism, or even just extreme endurance athletes and alpine mountaineers putting their own bodies through hell, pain inflicted on others and pain inflicted on yourself can be quite addictive, and it is definitely better for society if we can find some way to do this ritually rather than by actually starting wars. Ideally not via human sacrifice, but you know, somehow.
It's still whale shit.
I've been wondering:

How much of this is caused by component fragmentation?

As an example, Digikey lists a staggering 55k separate microcontroller variants (active products):

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/embedded-microcon...
It was made with charcoal which is made from wood, yes. But charcoal is man-made coal which is still bad from an emissions perspective. This process, on the other hand, does not use coal at all.
Sounds like you are really splitting hair there.
Thanks for linking to an interesting site
When I was in highschool in the late 90’s, I was really into exploring networks and systems I wasn’t supposed to be in, but it was always about learning technology for me. I found this tool to be extremely creepy.

I discovered that my local ISP had the finger port open on their dialup gateway. Since usernames were first letter + last name I could look up any ip addresses I found in my local firewall logs basically by name.

I saw someone trying to connect to this port and knew exactly who was scanning for this and eventually found a honeypot listener that would allow attackers to connect, but let you control the data sent back. I can’t remember exactly what I sent, but I called out the attacker by name when he connected to my machine and he never scanned me again
So get a regular phone. Does Israel only have Kosher phones?
I agree with you. Code should be intelligible on its own without comments. It should also be well documented. One does not preclude the other.
This is usually a good example of societal bias compounding.

It's possible that nobody directly involved in this was actively racist, but we're building on centuries of racism in every facet. So a little bit of bias in each technology and data set involved, not to mention the engineers and their testing, just adds up
"My body my choice" but we have to have vaccine mandates.

Are we at war with East Asia today?
Couldn't figure out how to navigate past the title page on my phone, so I gave up.
Thanks appreciate the advice. Yeah I’ve tried to make friends be useful etc. There’s no hard feelings really just a sense of being out in the cold. On a personal level I get along with these folks. The only trend is they are bringing in people who they used to work with. Interestingly some folks who were already at the company and used to work with them have seen their fortunes change for the better. I’ll start looking around as unless I work for a specific company it’s not going to happen I think.
this isn't a direct answer to your first question, but the people who go to burning man are probably familiar with the Rolling Stones album entitled "Get Your Ya Ya's Out" and since "ya" is a cry of agreement often used as a cheer, I always assumed it meant "group shout in celebration" and I don't think that's a big stretch

as to your second question, humans have innate senses of violence as a reaction to certain stimuli, and also celebrations of victory whether in actual or symbolic combat so... can you seriously not see the emotional catharsis, or are you simply questioning it as being emotional and un-rational?

I would add that to me--anthropomorphizing a little, emotions are rational: emotions were discovered by evolution as a good way to regulate behavior, and evolution is actually one of the most logical of processes.
This sort of thing put me off for life:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/samsungs-war...
This has been discussed ad infinitum in the burning man community. Burning man is totally inclusive of all genders.
Nobody knows for sure. It's a complex phenomena.

- Blame Toyota with their Just In Time inventory management ideas.

- Factory closures, lockdowns, etc.

- Increased demand for certain items. Everyone's at home surfing the web, playing games on their computers, mining bitcoin?

- Monetary policies are creating excess (see bitcoin mining) demand.

- Shipping delays. Ports running at reduced capacity. Ships sitting at sea waiting to get access. Suez Canal blocked. Shipping companies have no spare capacity. Blame Toyota.

- Building new factories takes time, getting/building new machinery takes time, everything was set up to not have any over capacity (since that's loss) ... blame Toyota again.

- Big companies swallowed everyone so we don't have as much diversity of products as we used to. Probably related to easy money as well.

tl;dr Toyota, Greenspan, Covid ... Somewhat in that order.

EDIT: Should probably add the trade war between the US and China to that list.
Not really related to C, but I once worked on an SoC where the DSP was mixed 16/24-bit, so they mapped each word to the ARM 32-bit bus. That is, each 4-byte address would map to one 16-byte (or 24-byte) word of the DSP's memory & register space.

But under the DSP was an I2C-based ISP that was glued in, and _its_ 8-bit words were mapped to each of the DSP's 16-bit (/24-bit) words.

So if the ARM wanted to talk to the ISP's control space, it read one 8-bit word of the ISP in each 32-bit word address.

The cherry-on-top was that the DSP was Big-Endian and the ARM was Little-Endian, and so you had to swap all the data you were exchanging with it.

Still the biggest HW WTF I've encountered in my career. This was the STMicroelectronics Nomadik 8810/8815/8820 chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadik
Prior to the invention of the Bessemer Process, it was mostly made with charcoal, so yes. Of course it was also very expensive and made in small batches.
As far as I know, there isn't a limit of power / speed for kei car category. In the old days Suzuki made a kei car that was "too powerful", the government "communicated" with them, and they settled with 64hps. Since then all the manufactures self-imposed the 64hps limit, but it's still legal for someone to power up their own car.

Smart K is another non-Japanese kei car that's more powerful.
> for those that are prescribing it, this is not an FDA approved treatment for Covid.

Most (all?) off-label prescriptions aren't FDA approved for that use, that's what makes them off-label. Prescribing drugs off-label is an acceptable practice, although it's generally higher risk to do so than with an FDA approved treatment as there's less information available.

I haven't looked into this particular off-label use, and it certainly has a lot of signs of poor advisability, but one way the medical community figures out what drugs work for conditions with limited treatment options is trying random things and reporting on what seems to work; then those things can be tested in more controlled situations.
"Former Intel Corp. boss Craig Barrett called his company’s microprocessors the most complicated devices ever made by man."

Not very smart to boast about this. So AMD makes more performant chips with less complicated designs?