skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I’m not sure I agree. Malicious firmware blobs in your disk controller could do all sorts of damage, like silently replacing parts of executable files with whatever they like. Someone made a proof of concept of this a few years ago - where they managed to replace some of the controller firmware in a hard disk. Their modified drive would then silently replace a certain executable with something else. And on that drive, the attack was persistent.

And are modern NVMe drives isolated? Is your system secure if you have a malicious PCIe device attached? (Even if disk controllers are isolated, are graphics cards? Couldn’t my NVMe drive just claim to be a GPU and DMA all it likes?)
My Italian teacher in college had the following saying: "Traduttore, traditore": the translator is a traitor.
Last update on the issue is from April 25th

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848#issuecomment-8...
The other thing is, how does California define recyclable?

As far as I know San Francisco recycles clean plastic food containers, plastic cups, plastic plates, and utensils [0], but backwards Mountain View specifically does NOT recycle utensils, black-colored containers, and fruit containers [1].

[0] https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/your-three-c...

[1] https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/recycling_and_zero_was...

https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/recycling_and_zero_was...
Did HN ever not like electrons? I kinda need them to dick around with computers, I was pretty sure most other people here were into that too.
LAPD officers told to collect social media data
Bottle deposits are still in force around the world. For instance in parts of the EU. They provide the most benefit where they support re-use (glass bottles) but are also used for recyclable PET bottles.
What about the people that are violent, not because of mental illness, but because well, they want to cause others pain?
But respect the author decision, maybe the "problem" is what the author desired to happen.
The answer depends on how many individuals had bank accounts to begin with. I suspect folks relying on remittances may not have been major account holders. Businesses will continue using the banking system, so those banks servicing them will be fine.
His point was he has the skills. I made the point about bootcamps, skills are easily obtained. Implying the janitor could not gain the skills is insane. Thinking a SE could begin a janitorial job tomorrow and do it as well as the janitor is laughable. SE skills are just a bit harder to come by, they aren't special. If your skills can be learned in a 6 week course you are not an astrophysicist nor a brain surgeon.

SEs are paid well and so have an overinflated self-value. Again, now that this is crashing with WFH. We have code chop shops in India, yet we still try and pretend coding is some modern-day magic language.

ninja edit- hit reply b4 finished

2nd edit- reminded me of this [1] infamous That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch =)

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
That's a great point. Shred it and use it as infill.
Ah you're right. I was thinking the watchdog was querying the server. I see now they're both part of the same fargate task, so it's just checking for local network connections.
yeah but that's not software. It's configuration data, in a binary format that's well-documented. There is also a tool for managing it in coreboot, called ifdtool.

There is also the GbE NVM (non-volatile memory) region, which configures the onboard ethernet chipset.

These configure the hardware, and the format is fully documented by datasheets.
Why don’t we ban the production or import of products which can’t be reused or recycled, and for which alternatives exist?

For instance, soda bottles. We used to have a closed loop system for these. All of the bottles were glass, the same dimension and color, and one exchanged them at the store you purchased them at. Similar systems exist in other countries for beer and wine bottles.
You'd be an asshole too if no-one liked you.
Greenwald's tweet in itself is disinformation. The Rolling Stone article quoted Dr McElyea as telling KFOR that multiple hospitals in rural Oklahoma were being overwhelmed with cases of Ivermectin poisoning.

One of the hospitals, at which McElyea has not recently worked, denied that it had treated any Ivermectin patients or turned any away. That doesn't mean there aren't other hospitals in the area that have been handling or even overwhelmed by those cases. It casts some doubt on the story, it's not a slam dunk debunking.

Rolling Stone was wrong to print the story uncritically without conducting its own independent verification of what KFOR reported. There's a damaging trend where news outlets will report on what other news outlets have reported without adding additional verification, sometimes giving flimsy stories more apparent weight.

But Greenwald is trying to pretend that the single hospital's denial is enough to render the entire story, and indeed the entire claim of Ivermectin overdosing, as false. That's dishonest too.
In other words: When told for entire life people must be useful to be happy, they become unhappy when not being useful.
Nonsense. And the reason this nonsense appears is the same why we're being showered with Guardian articles about "climate changes" on a daily basis - to justify increased government spending.

"If the government steps in and invests, we can increase the number of tractors... excuse me - open source projects - by 50%. You need only E5 bn a year to grow economy up to E30 bn a year. It's a no brainer!"

I hope I don't have to explain what's wrong with those euro-Soviets on steroids. But I also know almost no one here gives a damn - as long as they can join the plunder.
> Did you know that most modern Intel and AMD computers come with backdoors implanted by the NSA and other agencies? You do now, and it isn’t pretty.

The mere possibility that this is true should be enough for us to seek alternatives, but is there any evidence that it is actually the case? My impression was that the Intel Management Engine was a stupid idea but not intended to undermine security.
Makes sense. It's like a perfect metaphor for imbalances between individualism and collectivism.

Seems like Sparta internalized personal valor so intensely that the only collective good they could possibly understand, was to project the whole country as an imagined heroic individual, and then try to individually triumph in the name of that country.

Meanwhile, there's a lot of countries out there with more of an interest in community spirit and collective action. I daresay there's good metaphors for leaning too far in that way, as well, but Sparta did get wrecked in the end by the collectivists, who quite simply out-organized them and provided better support for their soldiers.

If honor dictates you have to jump over the ten foot wall ALONE, you ain't doing it, and humbler people who build a human pyramid and lift up those not good at climbing… their whole army's gonna be on the other side of that wall, anytime they want.
I set my Android phone to English mostly to avoid badly translated apps. Not so much for the major ones, but you never know if you might get some really bad machine-translated stuff in some apps.

As there isn't an easy way to set this per app, it makes more sense to me to just switch the phone entirely to English.
Agreed, perhaps the reason so many people use this service is because it may be because it solves a problem.

But another approach (my point on the rant) is the "I don't want to know how things work, I just want them to work" approach, which I think more and more people are using these days (we can relate this to mechanics, where everything is getting more complex). Because things are getting more complicated under the hood but seem "easier" to understand (because we're adding piles of abstractions on top of piles of abstractions), fewer people tend to take the time to create things with the "old" technos and really learn how things works.

(ps: this exact txt file is self-hosted on a dell optiplex fx160 with 4GB ram and an old processor, bought $20 in 2017 on ebay)
Exactly.

FB does some super shady IRL shit with their scanning and whatnot of everything they (their cameras) can see.
It really shouldn't. An asterisk is perfectly legal in a filename and in a URL path. It is a special shell character, but if your webserver is looking up static files via the shell, you need a different webserver pronto.
You might want to think through the logistics of having a person or a group of el Salvadorian government officials living in every foreign country in the world handing out cash to people. What you're talking about is recreating an international banking network. That's not exactly easy peasy
No one said the cost is zero. But L2 solution multiplies the number of transactions done by a significant done. So the cost per transaction is staggeringly low.
OLAP in the Modern Data Stack
Well, Nietzche liked Schopenhauer at least until after Untimely Reflections was published.

Schopenhauer certainly could bad-mouth anyone or anything. But remembering him for that is like remembering Dijkstra for the put-downs of Basic or Fortran rather than for his constructive work.
It is a joke the filmmakers may not be fully in on - the Romans in Python are analogues for the British, managing an empire and bringing the "benefits of civilization" to "quarrelsome and backwards natives".
Funny that the Maillard reaction causing browning and using the resulting fond is exactly what you want to see and eat from a culinary, tastes-good perspective.
Yep, this lines up with my experience. I've been trying to work with Apple on a critical security vulnerability for over a year now that affects over 100 million systems. When I'd ask the payout ranges at the beginning, I've had multiple people just block me as a contact and Apple themselves refuse to answer. Apple has a strict stance of submitting all of the research up front with no expectations as far as payment. Today, I've been ghosted by Apple, no reply to multiple emails. The last message I have is them saying they're fixing it. I chose the ethical route at a steep cost, the average price of the vulnerability from the other buyers I was talking to was 475K. There have been attempts to hack me 2 days after requesting a quote from some buyers. The most I can hope from Apple is 1/4th that. It really is the poorest communication out of any program I've done with the exception of AT&T's, who patched an RCE in their employee portal I reported (two months later) and then emailed me 6 months later saying there was no RCE. I've been told Apple is getting better with their communication over time, and now their average turnaround is 10 months.
You meant the “correct current take”, surely.
Looks interesting. I've encountered some annoying bugs with latest addr2line when trying to get symbols for addresses, wonder how gimli performs in that sense. Also, it seems that addr2line 2.37 has some performance regressions compared to 2.36.1 which I didn't look at yet.
What is Clang using it for? I thought it had its own suite of that.
How Visual Studio 2022 ate 100 GB of memory and what XML bombs had to do with it
Jamsocket looks really cool! Will take a closer look.
Hmm... I think we should approach such things very carefully. Doing this at a scale where it actually affects global warming at a meaningful level, we'd have to spray a lot of particles in the air that might hurt us in other ways. Absorption by insects and polluting the food chain, causing local climate effects by remote areas being covered in these etc.

Our ecosystem is very complex and I worry about things being viewed as a "quick fix" possibly digging a deeper hole for us.
Intel's quote saying that they do not do that, nor do they have access, could be true. However their statements allow for the possibility that someone else designs backdoors, puts them in, and can use them.

> "Intel does not and will not design backdoors for access into its products."

> "Intel does not put back doors in its products nor do our products give Intel control or access to computing systems without the explicit permission of the end user."

It would be much easier to say, "there are no backdoors", but they don't.
Well, that goes for every commentary on ancient societies. Unless it's explicitly about slaves and outcasts, it's about the at most 10% of the society that wasn't.

At some point the Romans got more people to participate on their society, but that's centuries after any of that.
I think small businesses don't want to spend X days per year to manage a self hosted solution, it's cheaper to just use a gafam service.

(and I think that's a problem, OSS softwares today are ~reliable enough for end users, but not really for companies)
Wouldn't this violate free speech laws? I'm all for regulation to disclose information, but regulation to prevent people from saying something is a bit more dicey.

Even trademarks to an extent feel unfair (should you really be unable to say the word Google in a TV Ad?).
Can someone with legalese knowledge make a license that states that you have to donate back 5% of the revenue you get from using a software?
Different strains do different things to different people. Saw no mention of this in the former two walls.
Apple sounds about as pleasant to work at as its platforms are to develop for.
Have to concur, sadly. I don't take advice on ethics from a man who kicked the woman, who took care of his house, down the stairs.
How Hackers Use Our Brains Against Us
Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees
https://archive.ph/pUycr
Yes. It's worth study. Especially since, all the world over, we've got resurgence of Spartan attitudes towards virtue, valor, and violence.
But it would be worse if they used a centralized currency. It's an additional risk. Those risks add up. And el Salvadorians can individually opt out of the government app whenever they want to. It's a lot harder to opt out of a currency you've decided to make legal tender 2 years in. Also stable coins are exactly what they don't want - they're trying to insulate themselves from rampant inflation and instability risk of the dollar.
I'm entirely supportive of Ethereum moving to Proof of Stake and think that Bitcoins Proof of Work is what may eventually kill it if it's not modified somehow.

I'm a tree hugging hippie and the energy use of bitcoin bothers me very little, as it's a barely a blip on the radar in comparison to numerous other human activities that have been going on for multiple decades and that no one mentions alongside BITCOIN ENERGY USE!!! for comparison because they're pushing an agenda.

I'm annoyed about the GPU thing, but that's capitalism; that's the market doing it's thing. Not sure how else to argue that point. It's probably also exacerbated by COVID messing up supply chains.
Live somewhere that will take the measures necessary to survive the upheavel.
The forest service will occasionally do this for remote structures that are at risk. It works surprisingly well!

When you consider physics of a forest fire, there are lots of unintuitive-sounding solutions that come up. One of them is to seal up the underside of your deck to prevent embers from getting lodged inside.
Your characterisation assumes that all those involved are real people, when there is blatant evidence of bot activity. Not only that, but in both Kenya and South Africa various official and media investigations have uncovered paid disinformation by political actors that is quite clearly not legitimate, authentic, or 'grassroots' in any way.

At best it's astroturfing, but in most cases it's gone beyond that.
I've run into this problem but I don't know there is a good solution. Let's say for whatever reason the app guesses the user wants Japanese. The app has no way to know what to present to allow to user to switch languages. Should they put a button that says "Language", how does that help a Chinese language person, a Korean person, a Thai person? Should they put "English"? Same point as above. As you complain, they'll likely put 言語, the Japanese for "language" and only if you click it will you see other languages, and it may be buried under 設定 (settings). Sure it's not useful for you, but neither is "English" or "Language" useful for a large part of the world.

I don't know there is a good solution. Checking my iPhone it's 設定ｰ>一般ｰ>言語と地域ｰ>iPhoneの使用言語 so fairly buried in language not useful for someone who doesn't know Japanese. Checking apple.jp, the place to switch is at the bottom right and it just says 日本, no indication that if you click it you'll get a list of countries and if you don't know Japanese you'd likely not know that means "Japan".
I saw Snowpiercer, no thank you.
I think all of those sensors (as well as the OLED display) are supported by esphome. That'll give you near plug-and-play with HomeAssistant with just a little YAML.
I am sorely tempted by the Keychron K7 ultraslim model - low profile and hot-swapable key switches, swap between up to 3 devices at a time.
ya, I wonder what the risk is of getting stuck long term like earlier this year. According to the wikipedia page it looks like it has only happened a few times in history.
One of the charms of the original matrix was that it felt like a bash terminal. The actions of people inside the matrix felt like CLI operations. Programs fighting viruses.

This trailer appears to be more - Transformers-like. More explosions, more fight scenes and maybe some futile goal.

I hope I am wrong and I'm still going to watch it.
> Consumer knowledge of what's recyclable

There's also a huge disconnect between what's actually recyclable across California cities, unfortunately.

As far as I know San Francisco recycles clean plastic food containers, plastic cups, plastic plates, and utensils [0], but backwards Mountain View specifically does NOT recycle utensils [1], black-colored containers [2], and fruit containers [2].

[0] https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/your-three-c...

[1] https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/recycling_and_zero_was...

[2] https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/recycling_and_zero_was...
Reminder that Spartan society was nightmarishly abusive to every single member from its slave class to its ruling class in the name of military supremacy, which they failed at. The only thing they were truly successful at was propaganda, which still dominates the way they are looked at today.
Some sites, like Google, will helpfully change the language depending on your current IP address. Trying to find how to switch to English from say, Korean, when Google surely knows that I'm English and don't speak Korean (I'm reminded of this[1]) should be forced upon the chimps writing their UIs.

What's wrong with using national flags? It's so easy for the user, don't designers care about us?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336850
I am confused and ignorant. If someone in Salvador receives a BTC and then they sell it how do the dollars actually get into El Salvador? Does a party transfer the dollars into my local bank account without any fee?
The delays caused by that specific blockage may have been resolved, but overall shipping delays continue to rise, as they were even before Ever Given. One big driver for that is ports being closed in China due to workers getting sick with Delta, but also just general lack of manpower related to the quarantine.
Russia has tens of thousands full-time people sitting on computers just doing fake stuff on social media in America.

They basically took all the money and people they would have put into their regular army and put it into a social media army.
Correction: proportional to the gradient of the square of the field.
Spartans spoke a different dialect of Greek (Doric) than the Athenians (Attic) and it used to be fairly common to translate bits of Doric as if they had been spoken by a Scottish Highlander.
I meant explore other corners of reddit/the internet so that you are not constantly exposed to doom and gloom that negatively affect mental wellbeing. The other commenter suggested /r/futurology or check out /r/solarpunk. In general look for places that also discusses viable solutions/actions not just problems.
One thought I have in mind is ability to provision AWS and/or Digital Ocean managed DB offerings so you don’t have to leave appliku interface to get a production grade DB.

But Appliku will keep being deployment solution for apps.
> The thing is with GPL you have to contribute back

Not contribute, but share the sources if they distribute a binary which uses code derived from GPL-ed one. Wireless router vendors used to share modified sources as an archive on some obscure ftp without comments and documentation (so you'll have a hard time building a binary from these sources). It's better than nothing, but this is not a contribution.
How Trojan of you.
https://www.electronjs.org/
>I would much rather

Why not both? Is one mutually exclusive of the other?
Thanks for the support! Glad you've been enjoying Hatchbox. We're wrapping up v2 and can't wait to share it. Upgrading to Caddy for the web server has been wonderful.
Because if you're not in the country legally you don't have a bank account.
> To illustrate, there is almost no difference between the genetics of humans 20,000 years ago compared to today.

There is also almost no difference between genetics of humans and chimpanzees. No difference, except in a few areas that happen to matter a lot.

As it turns out, 20 000 years is plenty enough for natural selection to make dramatic change in the genetic makeup of the population. For a most obvious example, look at the spread of lactase persistence mutation, which occurred and started spreading less than 20 000 years ago.

> It is also shown by the so-called "Flynn effect" [0], which is a substantial rise in measured IQ by over 1 SD in numerous populations during the 20th Century alone. This is comparable to the mean difference in intelligence between individuals, and absolutely cannot be accounted for by changes to genetics.

The Flynn gains are hollow, though. They are not on g factor, and it’s the g factor that’s responsible for the predictive validity of IQ.

Imagine a society where people use human foot length to measure distances. After a century or two, they observe that everything is getting shorter, a sort of anti-Hubble effect. Nobody noticed, however, that people have become taller on average, and so their feet became longer, so the actual change is only in the used metric, not the latent variable they are trying to measure. Flynn effect is like that.
I saw the banner too but wasn't sure exactly what he meant by "janky" and "updating in the open".

I thought it was going to be an example of a problematical translation
My Corolla Hybrid has a Li-Ion battery as well.
Why do you have to target the web as a platform if you already have sufficient platform-native support in your application?
I'm pretty sure it's a joke about the Electron software framework.
AGPL-like clauses classifying usage through network as distribution would help there and many platform capitalism[1] companies are against AGPL[2] for that reason.

[1]: https://theceme.org/richard-godden-platform-capitalism-nick-...

[2]: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/
Categorically, crypto is volatile. Just because some things aren't doesn't change that.
Which sucks because isn’t glass one of the few things that is fully recyclable (if done right)?
I don't think that's accurate. Where have you read that they are using USDT?
I recall a story about someone is arm's early days testing the chip and finding that it was workign normally was shocked when he saw the power wasn't actually going into it. excess power bleed going to it from other parts was providing all the energy it needed.
Fascist
Source? In all our experience monitoring disinformation accounts in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria we have found Twitter to be extraordinarily slow and reluctant to remove accounts. It certainly isn't doing any proactive monitoring that I can see.
(Joke explanation ahead:)

They are joking about HN not liking Electron (the framework).