skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes: Spectre and Meltdown. If you are running a cloud hosting company (or are using their services) then these are a huge problem for you because you run untrusted code on systems with sensitive data, or are sharing hardware with untrusted parties. It is probably very much worth the effort to use the performance impacting mitigations here.

If you're running an on-prem server, you're not running rando code from untrusted sources so the performance-impacting mitigations don't make sense. Yet there were (and still are) a lot of people who insist these mitigations need to be applied everywhere.

This sort of thing comes up all the time though. Think about how often people run web browsers on development machines. Not only are the a vector for "accidentally" installing malware even without bugs, they can sometimes be exploited to obtain data from your computer. Yet would you ever try and tell a developer that they can't use a web browser? But you take a similar decision outside of IT and suddenly IT people think it's a good idea to, say, disable VBA macro execution across the org because they don't have any idea how heavily the accounting department relies on it.
Qrator Labs report:
https://blog.qrator.net/en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-reco...
Assessing the U.S. Climate (August 2021)
The essence of democracy is majority rule... Anyway, you are missing some empathy with other humans right to choose where and how they work.
I would buy these if there was no Facebook dependency. Apparently a Facebook account is required, and the phone app is Facebook branded (and probably fb developed).

The Snap glasses looked very gimmicky, these look like Ray-Bans with two tiny cameras.
Seemed like a timely thing to resubmit with the announcement of Facebook's smart glasses.
I read the entire series and can't agree with your assessment at all. Yes he was very critical of Spartan society, but I feel he very clearly demonstrates through various sources why he has these views, e.g. highlighting that most of what we hear, see and might admire about Sparta is true only for 3% of the population (spartiates), while the vast majority are lower classes and in particular slaves (helots). And even those 'good things' might not be true.

I'd be interested where you disagree on substance.
That's correct. They're just glasses with a camera, a small LED, microphone, and speaker. It also listens for "hey facebook," can take calls, and can route music.
QuickNode launches support for Polygon Mumbai testnet
What does it mean for my friend who has a large recycling symbol tattooed ?
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I've thought it would be fun to try and implement something like patchbay[0] on workers.

[0]: https://patchbay.pub/
Do any but an extremely small handful of companies do anything for its employees that isn't self-serving on some level?

Does it really matter that giving employees benefits like this is in Amazon's best interest when it is also in the interests of the employees themselves? Should we decry Amazon providing warehouse workers with a parking lot as some cynical ploy to get workers to come to work?

Not every benefit given to employees is bad just because it also benefits the company.
Some do, but most of them escape from the plasma, carrying away energy, and need to be captured by the neutron blanket. This amounts to a whopping 80% of the reaction energy.

The real dream are fusion reactions which don't produce neutrons, such as H1+H1 or much more realistically, H2+B11 (though still many times harder than H2+H3).
We're[1] in a similar space and our winning strategy has been to provide white-glove onboarding to get our customers environment up and running. It's part of doing something that doesn't scale (easily) but it also allows us to figure out what else we can automate away to increase pace on these onboarding.

[1]https://atomizedhq.com
I get a sense you haven't experienced enough suffering for the conclusion you're arriving at. It is easy to project onto others that "they should be able to choose to work for a pittance if they want", when they don't want but have no other options. I'd argue, in a developed country with aspirations of being a civil society, you set a solid floor for those with the least power instead of making excuses that "this is their choice." But, as you mention, we all vote and see how it goes.
I agree that this is setting a precedent for perverse incentives to manifest, but I don't see how Amazon is to blame here. The government is failing to provide higher education to those who can benefit from it. Given this void, the free market inevitably would come with a solution of its own, even if it's suboptimal.
California bill bans use of recycling symbol on non-recyclable items
I honestly think Dangerfield would've had great success in ancient Rome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MecU2keW54I
Long term, this accelerates Amazon's robotics development in fulfillment centers.
Yeah. If I were going to build in a wildfire zone I would build a house engineered not to burn (yes, it's quite possible) but how much value is there if you come back to a house with the surround destroyed?
It really depends. The problem is the public benefit is being advertised, while we can only speculate about private motives. I'm not against corporations choosing reform to stave off revolution, but I am rightfully suspicious of it, especially in the current era.

For example, if a major shoe or clothing retailer provided a benefit for its (western) retail employees in order to preempt Congressional action into overseas sweat labor, then it's a really complex moral question, not just "it's better than nothing".
Would it surprise you to hear that the plastics industry came up with that symbol in order to make it confusing to the layperson to differentiate between recyclables and single-use plastics?

"Source" (not a primary source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g <-- which has some links to further reading/viewing and a few sources.
As an employer, I think it would also better to let the person go on their merry way. I feel this is like taking back an ex. Once they go, be gone; don't come back. One can't help but have a suspicion they'll be looking again.

As an employee I don't think I would agree to a counter offer either. Once you make a deal (agree with the other company's offer) that's what you "shook" on. Obviously people have a diff pov on this and that's okay.
> counting several millions of deaths

I don't think this is what the 5G conspiracy theorists claim, at all. Nobody is claiming people are going to drop dead from 5G.

The last 50 years have seen a dramatic rise in incidents of various less-than-lethal health issues: low sperm counts, autism, fibromyalgia, early puberty in girls, Chron's Disease, IBS, certain specific rare-but-treatable cancers, etc.

These are all very real and well-documented. And everybody has their pet explanation that happens to correlate with environmental increases of other things: sugar, seed oils, microplastics, glyphosate, vaccination, VOCs, birth control, and yes, mobile phone usage or HF exposure in general.

5G conspiracy theorists just happened to pick one of the possible correlates. You'll find anti-glyphosate crusaders on this very site who don't get nearly the vitriol that anti-5G people, or, god forbid, anti-vaxxers do.

But in the end, people are pattern-matchers, and evidenced-be-damned, this one particular pattern they spotted is the one they're going to go with.

Conspiracy theories of the pattern-matching type are kind of a built-in human problem, I think we're wired for it. I don't understand why we can't be more charitable towards them.
Amazing, but this really should be a web-based app and not desktop based. Or a hybrid strategy where the desktop-based app is actually running JavaScript in an Electron shell or something.

Please switch your approach ASAP or you will be beaten by a web-based app that does this exact thing, someone else will be the Figma to your Sketch.

This specific use-case doesn't require the large amount of resources that would necessitate a desktop app.
This reminds me of the millennial mantra that I've been seeing over the last year or two.

Pay us more money.

We don't want parties, prizes, perks or pizza. We want money. Determined to show you care about your employees? Pay them more money. Want to retain employees longer? Pay them more money. Want your employees to be able to afford education and health care?

Pay. Them. More. Money.
If this happened to me, I'd send a tip to the FBI[1].

[1] https://tips.fbi.gov
expect similar pronouncements from Google and Apple now that the other player made a first move.
Sure, that's probably a more precise way to say my complaint. The special role of taking a measurement/observing an observable. Unpacking what is and isn't measurement was what drove me nuts in undergrad and I never got an answer that satisfied me. We learned how to calculate the probabilities of each thing that would be measured, but not what counts as measurement.

I guess all I'm saying is that, in hindsight, I would have done so much better with a clearer delineation of 'this part over here is an interpretation question and isn't settled, but this other part over there is math that is settled empirically' rather than being taught 'here's an interpretation that's true and here's the math for it.'
When the gangsters keep the papers of the workers, the lines do indeed get blurry.

But it is still quite a difference between exploiting someone weaker and actually owning a person and be legally able to do anything with him or her.
You're assuming that the plant will produce more than enough energy in one year to power itself, power the country, and power the recycling effort. This assumption is based on nothing - current fusion dreams aren't even close to that kind of power generation.
I'd be interested in whether proofs like these will be formalized in proof assistants that can be checked with computer code, so that it removes doubt of error. It's something in math I'd like to see become more prevalent.
Does anyone know of a FOSS app to help setup something similar to managed databases w/ Postgres/Mongo, but with ease of use just like AWS/DO have? Handling backups, scaling with minimal user intervention yet self-hostable?
If cost wasn't a factor to any energy technology then you could probably negate its carbon footprint because you could use that electricity to cheaply pull carbon from the air.

But there are other environmental impacts. Fusion, even compared to fission, has an extremely small footprint (per megawatt). Its fuel is easily available (isotopes of hydrogen). It does require some pretty advanced magnets though, so it will contribute to the strip mining that we do for rare earth materials (though this applies to all energy forms, including solar and wind). I don't have numbers to say if a fusion reactor would use less total rare earth metals per megawatt compared to something like solar or wind.

One thing to note though. Once we get sustainable fusion reactors, it will still take a bit for that cost to come down significantly. That usually takes 10-20 years. This is a pretty common pattern. We've seen it from the price of laptops and cellphones to the price of solar panels.
This has been a long time coming. There is an infamous MathOverflow thread about the proof (also linked in the article), with the following comment summarizing the state of affairs ~10 years ago:

> There is no other evidence. In fact there is absolutely no evidence what so ever. I have never met a mathematician who could convince me that he or she understood Freedman`s proof. I attempted to read that monstrosity of a paper a number of times by myself and quite a few times with a group of other mathematicians. We never were able to finish checking all of the details. Such seminars always ended before we could make it through even half of his paper. No other expositions on the subject seem to be any better. It is truely an odd state of affairs that after all of these years no one has managed to write a clear exposition of this so called proof, and that no one seems to question the claim that there ever was a proof. I remember thinking as a young mathematician either this "proof" is sheer nonsense or someone will eventually write out a clear and detailed explanation. As of April of 2011 I have understood that the so called proof is full of errors and they can not be fixed. I mentioned this to several mathematicians during the summer of 2011 and I believe these conversations are directly linked to the dialogue seen here on math overflow.

Also on that thread, Brendan Guilfoyle raised the issue of writing a complete book-length treatment of the proof. I found the following response an interesting commentary on incentives in academia.

> Promotion committee: "What have you done in the last 5 years?"

> B.G.: "I've been writing a book about a paper published in 1982."

> Promotion committee: "How is that groundbreaking overachieving hyped research?"

> B.G.: "It is not, but I am preserving the knowledge of the elders."

> Promotion committee: "Who told you that was a good idea?"

> B.G.: "A guy on the internet, and 24 people liked his suggestion."

> Promotion committee: "We will call you, don't call us. Good bye."
I thought the trials only confirmed a reduction in symptomatic incidence?
Two cameras, separated by a good distance, and no mention of any stereo image capability.

I'm actually surprised. Just looking at the glasses, I'd expect some sort of "make 3d cameras popular" attempt to help create 3d content.
> is misunderstanding how companies operate.

The better question is: "Does it actually bring better long-term value to the company?" For those who think it does not, then the strategy seems in conflict with achieving the best results.
Let's declare war on these tired military metaphors (2010)
This is also good: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/
I can't wait for all the "Smart glasses not allowed in this venue" signs
Nah, you're missing the point entirely.

This is the media breathlessly reporting "Amazon bravely fixes SQL injection bug by disallowing special chars!" while every person who's thought about this for more than a minute goes "why the hell are y'all celebrating, that doesn't fix anything."

It's not hard to fix. It just requires the will do to it.
If an influencer owns a brand, then are all their posts ads? How does that work with Instagram's algorithms, will it suppress this content?
One nitpick about localization:

If you speak several languages, try setting your device to use one _language_ and keep your locale to US.

Now you can spot which developer understands the difference between a language and a locale and which one doesn't (hint: on large enough apps you'll land on pages using the wrong one, ie determines the language using locale). Or the opposite (watch the UI quote you prices in Euro despite your locale being USD).
I don't follow your argument. You seem to be saying that shutting down a business because security policy has destroyed its ability to do business is actually a really good thing because some business are bad.

That certainly is a certain kind of perspective I guess. You and I are not Equifax customers, our data was part of their product. This is an orthogonal issue.
Or in the case of the small cabins pictured, you'd think you could have a one-piece cover made of similar materials, like a giant car cover, packed away and just pull it over the structure before fleeing.
Always negotiate. If you can negotiate the team and project you work on, do so. Where you can make a big difference.
Sparta's demographic makeup was deeply weird even for the time. There's a decent summary here: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/23/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p... (tl;dr: >95% of people in Sparta were some sort of underclass, almost all slaves. By contrast, about 60% of people in Athens were an underclass, of which 70% slaves)
I generally agree with your conclusion and recognize your arguments. This might just be ignorance on my part, but don't we have a history of unions fighting for labor rights and securing real improvements for unskilled labor? My understanding is they've been sharply eroded, but minimum wage and a 40 hour work week alone seem like incredible improvements.
"Mal-function" might well be the intention. Just some classified experimental technology. Defense is just a euphemism after all.
My speculation is that they're going to heavily rely on U1, and possibly depth-only cameras.

Apple has all of the components put into place for you to point at a lamp, flick your finger, and turn it on.
Nurses also have this problem. On a busy floor, they rarely get to use their breaks or have to quickly scarf down some food and run back.
You'd be surprised to learn that when you're in public you're constantly being recorded.

Surveillance Camera Man was an interesting YT channel that explored the distinction between a citizen recording vs. commercial/government enterprises.
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/rRjFUkbdhhQd/
The 2021 edition itself is pretty boring. It only contains a few tweaks compared to Rust 2018, which pioneered such features as Non-lexical lifetimes and Async programming.
Also, some home computer games from the 80s can be really hard to play with any extra latency so a CRT helps.
yeah, pretty easily, why wouldn't it? those are the post-heatsoak numbers on my desktop (running an epyc 7443p), sustainable indefinitely.
Sorry. I didn’t mean to imply that you don’t have anything but CAPTCHAs. My wording could’ve been better.
In Cyprus, where i live, this is an actual joke still said today!
I've heard (and said) this joke many times in my life, and it never crossed my mind that it's 2000 years old.
Setup is the same and the punchline goes "Οτι νομίζεις τζιαι εν καλά τζιαι ύστερα τρώμε!" (in Cypriot greek)
Don't quotas already exist in other forms of unionized work; like I recall hearing electrical unions have designated time quotas for completing certain jobs? Maybe that memory is off though or inaccurate.
Already done, with as much relevant information as I could compile. I hope they find who is attacking security researchers. If I had to guess, the motivation may be for the zerodays I have.
Fire away at Those Military Metaphors - WSJ (2015)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fire-away-at-those-military-met...

https://archive.is/TzO9x
Plus, it's Oscar Wilde. He's more tongue-in-cheek than the champion of a lengua eating contest.
This is a great article on this, with a bunch of thought experiments on what makes you, you: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html
> ... the dubious abilities of our nominally elite classes ... to competently mediate the difference between artifice and reality.

I wish there were more media introspection over how they fueled the hype. To me, the Theranos story of a 19-year old dropout revolutionizing blood testing technology was always suspect.
Kubernetes is an absolute joke. Even after being set-up right, it rarely works as it is supposed too.
I think that was definitely the initial intention of bitcoin when it was launched. Perhaps not specifically to fight off USA influences, but definitely to end government control over the monetary system, be it the dollar, the yen or the euro.

However, I don't think that goal has been relevant for a few years now. Bitcoin has turned into an uncontrolled speculation adventure for people with more money than sense or access to cheap electricity. Just the transaction costs alone make it infeasible to use Bitcoin to order pizza. External payment networks related to but not affiliated with Bitcoin have spun up to battle these transaction costs, but Bitcoin itself is nothing like it was way back when.

I don't think Bitcoin will ever reach its potential as the initial activists thought it had. However, it has cleared the way for other cryptocurrencies to step up and replace it as a payment system for common people.
How does this compare against simply using Gardener [0]?

[0] https://github.com/gardener/gardener
> I've worked for companies, where security issues weren't reported by power users because they themselves had to exploit those vulnerabilities to be able to do their job

Yes, this is a well known effect of security policies: when you add too much friction to people's lives they will find ways to work around it. Any competent security policy will have to take this into account.
And 4 years later, what did you see happen when snapchat spectacles came out?
I see no value in speculating about how the universe was made, nor relating that to quantum mechanics, without have extensive data, and none of the data we have today supports making any of these kinds of speculations.
> The essence of democracy is majority rule.

Which is why there aren't many large-scale pure direct democracies out there. Most governments are set up to have at least some checks and balances to protect minority components from majority rule.
I would say that one is de facto slave if their superiors can rape or kill them without legal repercussions.
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No, there's no reason why that isn't available. This is a very sensible request and we'll add this information to the context available to workflow runs.
because the vast majority of data we have excludes it, and it seems really implausible, and gives humans (which are just meatbags) special status.
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There’s also https://tildes.net/
Use the ones whose financial rules appeal to you.
Skilled workers have unions. For example, airline pilots have some pretty strong unions. The jobs that don't work as unions are where workers are not interchangeable because of large differences in talent. This makes it a bad deal for highly talented members of that professions to be in the union, as they can get paid a lot more than the average because of their exceptional talent. If they were in a union, they would be more likely to get paid the same as other members of the union. For example, software developers have wide differences in talent and ability, and thus pay, and that's why they don't unionize. An airplane pilot can only be so good at their job though, even though it takes years of training, so they benefit from a union.
GPL didn't made me rich but it allows me to use high quality open source free software.
If they don't explicitly say they can take it, assume it's not recyclable.
What’s New in Flutter 2.5
Jeremy Howard on Kaggle, Enlitic, and Fast.ai
Peter Pan figures big in Jordan Petersons lectures. Here is one sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ckxQSutO4
> murder implies civilian circumstances

We can play on words, that won't bring back his victims.

> Not getting your country invaded also, but that's a whole different matter

He was rather quick to claim Canada was "his" country despite having brutally murdered an allied soldier. Also, he was fighting "his" country pretty hard until it became convenient not to.
so, SOAP/WSDL but for the JSON era?
The charitable interpretation is that their original intent of using the well-known recycling symbol around the resin code was to provide consumers with information to help them recycle more effectively.

However the fact that recycling programs (at least in my state) advise consumers to ignore the number and focus on the shape of the plastic means that (at least in my state) these symbols are not serving their intended purpose.

For example, many forms of polyethylene terephthalate are not recyclable even if the product is labeled with a RIC1/PETE symbol. In fact, the only time the RIC number is helpful to me is when confirming that a product is most definitely not recyclable. Of course, in those cases the use of the three-arrow recycling symbol to indicate a product's non-recycleability seems liable to confuse consumers.
I don't get why are things allowed to be sold, without ensuring the packaging is 100% recyclable